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'Verra well then, Robin heard Gourlay cry, 'you must allow me a while ere I pay that! I wager, for a' sae muckle as he's made of late, that his balance at the bank's a sma' yin." "More thyow than thubstanth," said the Deacon. "Well, I'm sure!" said the Provost, "he needn't have built such a gra-and house to put a slut of a wife like yon in!"
'A contuma-acious and stiff-necked generation, said the old man, walking off and shaking his head. 'And yet he's a fine laddie; a gra-and laddie wad he be with good guidance. It's the Lord's doing, nae doot, and we daurna fault it; it's wondrous in our een. That was the way old Mac always talked. Droll lingo, wasn't it? Well, away we went to this township.
They wanted to watch how Gourlay tholed the mention o' his son's disgrace. I'm a kind o' show to them." Johnny Coe, idle and well-to-pass, though he had no business of his own to attend to, was always present where business men assembled. It was a gra-and way of getting news. To-day, however, Gourlay could not find him. He went into the cattle mart to see if he was there.
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