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I waited and waited to give the vision time; it would not come; the mirror stood blank; nothing lay in its dim old depth but the mirror opposite and my haggard face. I went back to the library. There the books were hateful to me for I had once loved them. That night I lay awake from down-lying to uprising, and the next day renewed my endeavours with the mystic door. But all was yet in vain.
She'd caught it first, and Frank, who was as tender o'er her as her own mother could ha' been, had nursed her till he'd caught it himsel; and she expecting her down- lying* everyday. Well, t' make a long story short, old Jennings and I went up by that night's coach. So you see, Mary, that was the way I got to London." *Down-lying; lying in.
And as Mrs Hamps continued to embroider the original theme of her exhortation about the Bible, Edwin looked at her stealthily, and the doubt crossed his mind whether that majestic and vital woman was ever sincere about anything, even to herself whether the whole of her daily existence, from her getting-up to her down-lying, was not a grandiose pretence.
"Give thine angels charge over us, that no evil may come nigh our dwelling." "Thou knowest our down-lying and rising-up, thou art acquainted with all our ways, and knowest our tho'ts afar off." "We know that in us, that is, in our flesh, there dwelleth no good thing." "Holy Father, keep through thine own name all those that are thine, that none of them be lost."
But most of the country are prelatists, whilk is awfu' to think; and I saw twa men that were ministers following hunds, as bauld as Roslin or Driden, the young Laird of Loup-the-dike, or ony wild gallant in Lothian. A sorrowfa' sight to behold! Oh, dear father, may a blessing be with your down-lying and up-rising, and remember in your prayers your affectionate daughter to command, "Jean Deans."
Therefore, ought you to be so compassionate with her, as not to speak to her about any other thing; for all her mind and sences are so imploied upon that subject, that she can think upon nothing else but her down-lying. Hear but deliberately to all her lying-in, and of what belongs to it.
But most of the country are prelatists, whilk is awfu' to think; and I saw twa men that were ministers following hunds, as bauld as Roslin or Driden, the young Laird of Loup-the-dike, or ony wild gallant in Lothian. A sorrowfa' sight to behold! Oh, dear father, may a blessing be with your down-lying and up-rising, and remember in your prayers your affectionate daughter to command, "Jean Deans."
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