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Updated: June 9, 2025
The leaves bronzed, the autumn rains came, the leaves fell, the trees stood bare, the winds began to blow, there fell the first snowflakes. Gilian, walking home from the town, was overtaken on the moor by Robin Greenlaw. "Where is Elspeth?" "We are making our winter dresses. She would not leave her sewing." The cousins walked upon the moor path together.
"Good day, the both of ye!" "It's Robin Greenlaw," said Alexander, "from Littlefarm. You've been to the wedding, Robin?" "Aye. Janet's some kind of a cousin. It's a braw day for a wedding! You've got with you the new laird's nephew? And how are you liking Black Hill?" "I like it." "I suppose you miss grandeurs abune what ye've got there.
"Sit down and have a glass with me," said the latter. "Who are they?" "A recruiting party," answered Greenlaw, accepting the invitation. "I like to hear their talk! I'll listen, drinking your wine and thanking you, sir! and riding home I'll make a song about them." He sat with his arm over the chair-back, his right hand now lifting and now lowering the wine-glass.
The veil between thickened; she vanished; there were only the white particles of the dissolving or the forming world. The two kept silence. Twilight deepened, night came, the snow ceased to fall for a time, then began again, but less thickly. One hour went by, two, three. Then came Robin Greenlaw and Peter Lindsay, riding, and with them horses for the two who waited at Skene's cot.
His ideal of success was wealth and worldly position, things to which the poet was, on the contrary, abnormally indifferent. Shelley's schooling began at six years of age, when he was placed under the Rev. Mr. Edwards, at Warnham. At ten he went to Sion House School, Brentford, of which the Principal was Dr. Greenlaw, the pupils being mostly sons of local tradesmen.
Cooper and Greenlaw on what is called the Hill Ranch they left two of their dead, "Little Lillie" and "Little David," who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings. Also, Gooper and Greenlaw in their time cleared the virgin forest from three fields of forty acres. To-day I have those three fields sown with Canada peas, and in the spring they shall be ploughed under for green manure.
Robin Greenlaw and Peter Lindsay took a way that should lead them far aside from this port, and then with circuitousness home. Before they reached it they would separate, coming singly into their own dale, back to Black Hill, back to Littlefarm. The laird of Glenfernie and Littlefarm, dismounting, moving aside, talked together for a few moments. Ian gave Peter Lindsay a message for Mrs.
He turned into the inn, took a seat by a corner table, and called for a bottle of wine. In addition to the soldiers the room had a handful of others farmers, a lawyer's clerk from Stirling, a petty officer of the excise, and two or three village nondescripts. From this group there now disengaged himself Robin Greenlaw, who came across to Strickland's table.
Keane said that he was returning home slowly after his sister's funeral, looking on the ground, when he was suddenly roused by hearing the tramping of horses, and on looking up he saw a large troop of riders coming towards him two and two. What was his horror when he saw that one of the two foremost was the sister whom he had that day seen buried at Greenlaw!
Davie, tell Dandie Saunderson to saddle Black Alan at once. Now, Robin!" "Yesterday," said Greenlaw, "Elspeth Barrow vanished from White Farm. They wanted to send Christmas fare to old Skene the cotter. She said she would take a basket there, and so she went away, down the stream about ten of the morning they think it was. It was not for hours that they grew at all anxious. She's never come back.
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