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Domsie now essayed to read the news, but between the shaking of his hands and his voice he could not. "It's nae use," he cried, "he's first in the Humanity oot o' a hundred and seeventy lads, first o' them a', and he's first in the Greek too; the like o' this is hardly known, and it has na been seen in Drumtochty since there was a schule.
Drumsheugh and Domsie then came in from the plate and the administration of discipline, and the parish waited as one man for the appearance of John with the Bible, the Doctor following, and envied those whose seat commanded the walk from the manse down which the procession came every Sabbath with dignity, but once a year with an altogether peculiar majesty.
I saw it set again as we came down that road one day, but it was well that we could not pierce beyond the present. Whinnie left his plough in the furrow, and came to meet us, taking two drills at a stride, and shouting remarks on the weather yards off. Domsie only lifted the letter. "Frae George." "Ay, ay, and what's he gotten noo?"
But it was Latin Domsie hunted for as for fine gold, and when he found the smack of it in a lad he rejoiced openly. He counted it a day in his life when he knew certainly that he had hit on another scholar, and the whole school saw the identification of George Howe.
No one spoke to Domsie as we went down the cart track, with the ripe corn standing on either side, but he beckoned Chalmers to walk with him. "Ye hae heard him speak o' me, then, Maister Jamieson?" "Ay, oftentimes, and he said once that ye were hard driven, but that ye had trampled Satan under yir feet."
It was a strong proof of Lachlan Campbell's individuality that he impressed himself twice on the parish, and each time with a marked adjective. Lachlan had been superintending the theology of the glen and correcting our ignorance from an unapproachable height for two years before the word went forth, but the glen had been thinking. What say ye, Domsie?"
"I do not wish to dispute with you, Drumsheugh" Domsie always spoke English on such occasions "and the power of the keys is a solemn charge. But we must temper a just measure of severity with a spirit of mercy."
Ludovic Gordon left Harrow with the reputation of a classic, and had expected to be first at Edinboro'. It was Gordon, in fact, that Domsie feared in the great war, but he proved second to Marget's son, and being of the breed of Prince Jonathan, which is the same the world over, he came to love our David as his own soul.
"What do you think of making him?" and the Dominie dropped the words slowly, for this was a moment in Drumtochty. There was just a single ambition in those humble homes, to have one of its members at college, and if Domsie approved a lad, then his brothers and sisters would give their wages, and the family would live on skim milk and oat cake, to let him have his chance.
Since then Domsie had seen the kingdom of God, and this is graven where the roses bloomed fresh every summer for twenty years till Marget was laid with her son: GEORGE HOWE, M.A., Died September 22nd, 1869, Aged 21. "They shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it."
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