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Updated: September 7, 2025
I can wipe cups and saucers and make my bed and sweep my room and weed in the garden, and sew, and spin a little, but I cannot make very even thread yet. And to knit I have knit a pair of stockings, Patty. Aunt Lois said those I brought were vanity." "Stuff and nonsense! These Quakers would have the world go in hodden gray, and clumsy shoes and stockings. Let us see thine. Oh, ridiculous!
The purser was busy allotting seats at the tables, and Buel waited patiently. He had no friends on board, and did not care where he was placed. When the purser was at liberty, the steward explained to him the difficulty which had arisen. The official looked at his list. "159 Buel. Is that your name, sir? Very good; 160 Hodden. That is the gentleman now in the room. Well, what is the trouble?"
On the trunk Buel noticed the name in white letters "Hodden," and instantly there arose within him a hope that his companion was to be the celebrated novelist. This hope was strengthened when he saw on the portmanteau the letters "J.L.H.," which were the novelist's initials.
Where were the stately dames in stiff brocade, the shaven priests, the fool in motley, the vassals, the yeomen in hodden gray and broad blue bonnet? Not there, certainly.
Accordingly, we settled to speak of it as a matter in part decided, that Mr Hodden and Mr Fegs were to be the two new councillors; and to make the thing sure, as soon as I went home I told it to Mrs Pawkie as a state secret, and laid my injunctions on her not to say a word about it, either to Mrs Hodden or to Mrs Fegs, the wives of our two elect; for I knew her disposition, and that, although to a certainty not a word of the fact would escape from her, yet she would be utterly unable to rest until she had made the substance of it known in some way or another; and, as I expected, so it came to pass.
"Nay, nay," replied the man, in a tone of deep reverence, "he was Rabbie Burns. I dare na speak to him. If he had been any other mon I would have said 'good morrow to ye." Beautiful and eloquent tribute, paid by an unlettered peasant, not to rank or to wealth, but to a soul a mighty soul though clad in "hodden grey" like himself!
Thereby we met an angler, an ancient man in hodden grey, strolling home from the Rankle burn. And we told him of our bad day, and asked him concerning that hideous fly, which had covered the loch and lured the trout from our decent Greenwells and March browns. And the ancient man listened to our description of the monster, and He said: "Hoot, ay; ye've jest forgathered wi' the Bloody Doctor."
If a man is at all well known, they attack him before he has a chance to leave the ship. If you refuse to say anything, they will write a purely imaginative interview. The last time I visited America, five of them came out to interview me they came out in the Custom House steamer, I believe." "Why, I should feel flattered if they took all that trouble over me, Mr. Hodden."
It was a glorious crystal clear day in autumn; all nature, aroused from her summer's rest, had put off her suit of hodden grey, and was flaunting in gaudiest green. For a time their way lay straight across the broad well-grassed plains, marked with ripples as though the retiring sea had but just left it.
I found it a moment ago down in my state-room, so it was not lost after all." They were now walking together as if they were old acquaintances, the girl still holding the volume in her hand. "By the way," she said innocently, "I see on the passenger list that there is a Mr. Hodden on board. L>o you think he can be the novelist?" "I believe he is," answered Buel, stiffly.
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