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Her soft Highland accent and the quaint Highland phrasing seemed to reach a soft spot in the little Scot. "Hame? An' whaur's that?" he inquired, manifesting a grudging interest. "Where? Where but in the best of all lands, in Scotland," said Moira. "Near Braemar." "Braemar?" "Aye, Braemar. I have only come four days ago."
In one of these accesses, unable to speak, he wrote, "Do not be frightened. If this is the end it is an easy one." Many scraps written by him in circumstances like these used to exist; some of them, though brief, were rich in the simple eloquence of indignation. Almost no climate did him any good: in 1880-1881, he chiefly suffered at Davos, and in the tempests of September, in Braemar.
Cumming is so slippery and lax in his mode of presentation that we find it impossible to gather whether he means to assert that this is what a peasant on the mountains of Braemar did say, or that it is what such a peasant would say: in the one case, the passage may be taken as a measure of his truthfulness; in the other, of his judgment. I thought Christianity might not be true.
It is interesting to note that, while the battle which has given significance to the record of the dispute was fought for the Lowland town of Aberdeen in a Lowland part of Aberdeenshire, the very name of the town is Celtic, and the district in which the battlefield of Harlaw is situated abounds to this day in Celtic place-names, and, not many miles away, the Gaelic tongue may still be heard at Braemar or at Tomintoul.
I love my native air, but it does not love me; and the end of this delightful period was a cold, a fly-blister and a migration by Strathardle and Glenshee to the Castleton of Braemar.
Societies were formed, either by pique or humour, to scatter certain fires, and the attack and defence were often conducted with art and with fury." Down to about the middle of the nineteenth century "the Braemar Highlanders made the circuit of their fields with lighted torches at Hallowe'en to ensure their fertility in the coming year.
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