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The stone was no longer at the Cuttle Well. As the easiest way of obliterating the words, the minister had ordered it to be broken, and of the pieces another mason had made stands for watches, one of which was now in Thrums Street. "Aaron Latta ain't a mason now," Tommy rattled on: "he is a warper, because he can warp in his own house without looking on mankind or speaking to mankind.
People came to their doors to see Aaron Latta laughing. Elspeth was to be his wife! David had carried the wondrous promise straight to Grizel, and now he was gone and she was alone again. Oh, foolish Grizel, are you crying, and I thought it was so hard to you to cry! "Me crying! Oh, no!" Put your hand to your cheeks, Grizel. Are they not wet? "They are wet, and I did not know it!
Tommy's mother's next question cost her a painful effort. "Did you hear," she asked, "whether they telled Aaron Latta about the letter?" "Yes, they telled him," Tommy replied, "and he said a queer thing; he said, 'Jean Myles is dead, I was at her coffining. That's what he aye says when they tell him there's another letter. I wonder what he means, mother?" "I wonder!" she echoed, faintly.
They all helped him in their different ways: Grizel, by declining his company; Corp, by being far away at Look-about-you, adding to the inches of a farm-house; Aaron Latta, by saying nothing but looking "college or the herding;" Mr.
Oh, Aaron, you could lift me so pitiful easy now. And syne says you solemnly three times, 'Aaron Latta, Jean Myles is lying dying all alone in a foreign land; Aaron Latta, Jean Myles is lying dying all alone in a foreign land; Aaron Latta, Jean Myles is lying dying all alone in a foreign land. And if he's sweer to come, just say, 'Oh, Aaron, man, you micht; oh, Aaron, oh, Aaron, are you coming?"
Ephraim Brevard. Robert Davidson married Margaret Osborne, a daughter of Adlai Osborne, the grandfather of the late Jas. W. Osborne, of Charlotte. Benjamin Wilson Davidson married Elizabeth Latta, a daughter of James Latta, Esq. The third wife of Samuel Wilson, Sr., was Margaret Jack, a sister of Captain Jack, the bearer of the Mecklenburg Declaration to Congress.
"No' afore her," she besought him; but before he set off to post the letter she said: "Come canny into my bed the night, when Elspeth 's sleeping, and syne I'll tell you all there is to tell about Jean Myles." "Tell me now whether the letter is to Aaron Latta?" "It's for him," she said, "but it's no' to him.
At the session of the Legislature at Vandalia in the winter of 1830-31, a petition borne to the State capital by Thomas Orendorff and James Latta was duly presented, praying for the organization of a new county to be taken from Tazewell and Vermilion.
Convinced of his own worthlessness, Tommy was sufficiently humble now, but Aaron Latta, nevertheless, marched to the square on the following market day and came back with the boy's sentence, Elspeth being happily absent.
So no more at present, for my man is sitting ganting for my society, and I daresay yours is crying to you to darn his old socks. Mind and tell Aaron Latta." This letter was posted next day by Tommy, with the assistance of Shovel, who seems to have been the young gentleman of ladylike manners referred to in the text.
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