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"Rich!" exclaimed Lewis, with a smile, in which there was a touch of contempt. "Well, yes, we were rich enough once, but when my father was away these wretched mines became " "Lewie!" exclaimed his mother, hastily, "what nonsense you do talk! Really, one would think from your account that we were paupers."
And what can I do? I'm a Stewart, ye see, and must fend for my clan and family. Then no later by than yesterday there was one of our Stewart lads carried to the Castle. What for? I ken fine: Act of 1736: recruiting for King Lewie. And you'll see, he'll whistle me in to be his lawyer, and there'll be another black mark on my chara'ter!
Peace paused in her lament, and then with a bright smile answered, "It is nicer that way, ain't it? 'Cause even if they had been orphans, maybe grandpa would think he had his hands full with the six of us, and couldn't make room for any more. Lewie can bite like a badger and I 'magine grandpa wouldn't stand for much of that. Anyway I wouldn't.
However, I paid him back, that's one comfort, and my stakes now are mere trifles just enough to give interest to the game. Yet, shame on you, Lewie; can't you take interest in a game for its own sake? The smallest coin staked involves the spirit of gambling. You shouldn't do it, my boy, you know that well enough, if you'd only let your conscience speak out.
But he was an old and well-liked country laird, whereas Lewie is a very young gentleman with nothing to his credit except an Oxford reputation and a book of travels, neither of which will appeal to the Gledsmuir weavers." "But he is popular?" "Where he is known adored. But his name does not carry confidence to those who do not know the man, for his family were weak-kneed gentry."
He asked for a match for his pipe, and the man who gave it wore a decent melancholy on his face and shook his head with unction. "This is a bad job, Lewie," he said, using the privileged name of the ancient servant. "Whae would have ettled sic a calaamity to happen in your ain countryside?
Come and dine, Doctor. I am in solitary state just now, and long, wet evenings are dreary." "I'm afraid I must excuse myself, Lewie," was the formal answer, with just a touch of reproof. Dinner to Doctor Gracey was a serious ceremony, and invitations should not be scattered rashly. "My housekeeper's wrath is not to be trifled with, as you should know."
"You think it an error?" said Lewis, with such an air of relief that George began to laugh and Wratislaw looked comically suspicious. "Why the tone of joy, Lewie?" "I wanted your opinion," said the perjured young man. "I thought of writing a book. But that is not the thing I was talking about. I want to be normal, aggressively normal, to court the suffrages of Gledsmuir. Do you know Stocks?"
The boy was fishing, wading pretty deep, and in turning round to stare at me he slipped and was carried down. I merely rode my horse out and collared him. There was no danger." "And the Black Linn just below," said the Doctor, incredulously. "You have got the usual modesty of the brave man, Lewie." "It was a very small thing. My horse knew its business that was all."
He is a great traveller, you know, and has written a famous book. Lewis Haystoun is his full name." "Why, I have read it," cried Alice. "You mean the book about Kashmir. But I thought the author was an old man." "Lewie is not very old," said his aunt; "but I haven't seen him for years, so he may be decrepit by this time. He is coming home soon, he says, but he never writes.
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