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"Didna a' tell ye, neeburs?" said Jamie, as they stood at the kirkyard gate before dispersing; "there's no a man in the coonty cud hae dune it better. 'Beloved physician, an' his 'skill, tae, an' bringing in 'adjacent districts'; that's Glen Urtach; it wes handsome, and the doctor earned it, ay, every word.
The place is foo' o' men tae say naethin' o' weemin; but it's little she hes tae dae wi' them or them wi' her officers frae Edinburgh an' writin' men frae London, as weel as half a dozen coonty birkies." "Well?" said Carmichael, despising himself for his curiosity.
An' oor bairnies is a' daein' fine: Jamie's a doctor i' Chicago; an' oor Jeanie's mairrit on Allan Sutherland, him as will be the new Reeve o' the coonty; an' Chairlie has a ranch i' Alberta like the Duke o' Roxburgh's estate; an' Willie'll hae oor ain land here, when we sleep aneath it.
Kildrummie, still in search of agreeable themes to pass the time, also mentioned a pleasant tale he had gathered at the seed shop. The castle is foo' o' men tae say naethin' o' weemin; but it's little she hes tae dae wi' them or them wi' her officers frae Edinburgh an' writin' men frae London, as weel as half a dozen coonty birkies." "Well?" said Carmichael, despising himself for his curiosity.
"Didna a' tell ye, neeburs?" said Jamie, as they stood at the kirkyard gate before dispersing; "there's no a man in the coonty cud hae dune it better. 'Beloved physician, an' his 'skill, tae, an' bringing in 'adjacent districts'; that's Glen Urtach; it wes handsome, and the doctor earned it, ay, every word.
Eh, the fowth o' fushionless beggars I hae seen come to me like yersel'! Ow ay! it was aye wark they wad hae! an' cudna du mair nor a flee amo' triacle! What coonty are ye frae, wi' the lang legs an' the lang back-bane o' ye?" Cosmo told him. The hands of the old man rose from his sides, and made right angles of his elbows. "Weel," he said slowly, "that's no an ill coonty to come frae.
'There's mair o' them, I gether, she said, 'and mair remarkable anes, in oor ain coonty nor in ony ither in Scotlan'. I hae mysel seen nane but this. Then she told him how Steenie had led the way to its discovery. By the time she ended, Gordon was really interested chiefly, no doubt, in finding himself possessor of a thing which many men, learned and unlearned, would think worth coming to see.
"Didna a' tell ye, neeburs?" said Jamie, as they stood at the kirkyard gate before dispersing; "there's no a man in the coonty cud hae dune it better. 'Beloved physician, an' his 'skill, tae, an' bringing in 'adjacent districts'; that's Glen Urtach; it wes handsome, and the doctor earned it, ay, every word.
And the cause o' his displeesur' is the accursed thing which the Ahchan in oor camp has hidden i' the Coonty Bank, forby mony ither causes that come hame to us a'. And the warl' jist scoffs at oor profession o' religion, whan it sees sic a man as that in oor mids'." "All this is nothing to the point, Mr Crann," said Mr Turnbull in displeasure.
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