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Heron Brownlee, who, as I have narrated, brought me to his mother's house, was by trade a tailor, and kept his cloth shop in the Canongate, some six doors lower down than St Mary's Wynd, just after passing the flesher's stocks below the Netherbow; for in those days, when the court was at Holyrood, that part of the town was a place of great resort to the gallants, and all such as affected a courtly carriage.
Or, "Would you no like to be so michty beautiful, ma'am, that as soon as the men saw your bonny face they just up wi' you in their arms and ran?" Or again, "What's the heaviest weight o' a woman a grand lusty man could carry in his arms as if she were an infant?" This method of conveyance seemed to have a peculiar fascination for Gavinia, and she got herself weighed at the flesher's.
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