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As soon as she was alone in her room she drew from her pocket a parcel containing something which Dowie had bought for her on their way home. When undone it revealed two or three tallow candles, a precious present in view of her hopes. But how should she get a light for this was long before lucifer matches had risen even upon the horizon of Glamerton? There was but one way.
Alec had told his mother all about the affair; and some of her friends from Glamerton, who likewise had sons at the school, had called and given their versions of the story, in which the prowess of Alec made more of than in his own account.
In this difficulty he bethought him of Bruce, to borrow from whom would not involve the exposure of the fact that he was in any embarrassment, however temporary an exposure very undesirable in a country town like Glamerton.
It's weel kent ower a' Glamerton, Mr Bruce, in what mainner you and yer haill hoose hae borne yersels to that orphan lassie; and I'll gang into ilka chop, as I gang doon the street, that is, whaur I'm acquant, and I'll jist tell them whaur I'm gaun, and what for." The thing which beyond all others Bruce dreaded was unremunerative notoriety. "Hoots!
She did not know that the door into that life might have been easier to find in that ugly chapel than even here in the vestibule of heaven. "My nurse used to call the lark 'Our Lady's hen," said Kate. "How pretty!" answered Alec, and had no more to say. "Are the people of Glamerton very wicked, Alec?" asked Kate, making another attempt to rouse a conversation.
One notable event, however, of considerable importance in its results to the people of Howglen, took place this winter amongst the missionars of Glamerton. So entire was Thomas Crann's notion of discipline, that it could not be satisfied with the mere riddance of Robert Bruce.
She watched all the fields around Glamerton; she knew what response each made to the sun, and which would first be ripe for the reaping; and the very day that the sickle was put in, there was Annie to see and share in the joy. How mysterious she thought those long colonnades of slender pillars, each supporting its own waving comet-head of barley!
Their appetite for prophecy having assuaged with the assuaging flood, the people of Glamerton had no capacity for excitement left. The consequence was that the congregations, especially the evening congregations, began at once to diminish.
There's naebody in Glamerton spins like ye." "Maybe ay and maybe no. It's no muckle that that comes till. I wadna spin sae weel gin it warna that the Almichty pat some sicht into the pints o' my fingers, 'cause there was nane left i' my een.
I was ance prood o' that airm" and it was a brawny right arm he stretched out�-"and there was no man within ten mile o' Glamerton 'at cud lift what I cud lift whan I was five-and-twenty. I daursay that luiks gey auld to you, no?
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