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"Come away, Bee, my darling," said Ishmael, suddenly turn his wife around and leading her from the room. "She really seemed to know you, Ishmael," said Bee, as they left the prison. "She did, love; it was Mrs. Dugald." Bee's blue eyes opened wide, in wonder and sorrow, and she walked on in silence and in thought.
The neighboring gentry rightly estimated the domestic life at Castle Cragg and the character of its inmates, and refrained from calling there. This avoidance of her society by the county families galled Faustina. "What do they mean by it?" she said to herself. "I am the Honorable Mrs. Dugald. Ah, they think I have lost myself.
Gradually he made himself master of the situation, and of some more desirable acres, and also, incidentally it seemed, of the affections of a maiden who lived not far from Grand Pré. Dugald McIntyre had prospered again when the "Eye of Gluskâp" no longer looked malignantly on his fortunes; and to his descendants he had left one of the finest properties within view of Blomidon.
"Gentlemen, I beg to resign, as from the close of the present term, the position of Master of Mathematics, Arithmetic and Writing, in Muirtown Seminary, and to thank the council for the trust which they have placed in me for fifty-eight years. "I am, my Lord Provost and Gentlemen, "Your obedient servant, "Dugald MacKinnon."
And then he told the grievous story of the decadence of the Brudenell ladies, not, of course, forgetting the mad marriage of Eleanor Brudenell with the profligate Captain Dugald. While Bernice was still wondering over these family mistakes and misfortunes, a footman opened the door and said: "My lady, dinner is served."
My breath went from me suddenly. "Oh," I cried excitedly, "isn't that -yes, I thought it was the dinner gong!" For as if in response to my dire need, the clang of Cookie's gong echoed through the island silences. When after those poignant moments in the boat I met Dugald Shaw in commonplace fashion at the table, a sudden, queer, altogether unprecedented shyness seized me.
Dugald McIntyre set his jaws grimly together, took good hay from another meadow to mix with the ruined crop, and by a discreet construction of his bundles succeeded in selling the whole lot at a good price to his most gracious Majesty's government at Halifax.
"I mentioned my kinsman Isaacs, because I always suspected him to be a party to a stratagem formed by Captain Dugald at that time to get me into his power. Captain Dugald scarcely let the first six months of my widowhood pass by before he began to lay siege to my house; not to me personally; for I always denied myself to him.
One of them was the gas-fitter Charles Richards; another was the watchmaker Lestrange, who had originally challenged Robert to deliver himself; and the third was a tough old Scotchman of sixty with a philosophical turn, under whose spoutings of Hume and Locke, of Reid and Dugald Stewart, delivered in the shrillest of cracked voices, the Club had writhed many an impatient half-hour on debating nights.
You mount by stairs in a cutting of the rock to find yourself in a field of monuments. Dugald Stewart has the honours of situation and architecture; Burns is memorialised lower down upon a spur; Lord Nelson, as befits a sailor, gives his name to the top-gallant of the Calton Hill.
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