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I have taken a farm, on the borders of the Nith, and in imitation of the old patriarchs, get men-servants and maid-servants, and flocks and herds, and beget sons and daughters. Your obedient nephew, XCI. To MR. JAMES JOHNSON, ENGRAVER, EDINBURGH. MAUCHLINE, 25th May 1788. MY DEAR SIR, I am really uneasy about that money which Mr.
I am the more particular in this lady's character, as I know she will henceforth have the honour of a share in your best wishes. She is still at Mauchline, as I am building my house; for this hovel that I shelter in, while occasionally here, is pervious to every blast that blows, and every shower that falls; and I am only preserved from being chilled to death, by being suffocated with smoke.
All the same, she added, with a faint sigh, 'I admit that he was right to find fault with her having those girls at Bourhill. Tom dear, I really think it is your duty, as guardian, to interfere. 'We can go down, anyhow, and see what she is about, replied the lawyer; and that afternoon, accordingly, they went out to Mauchline.
'Mossgiel and Ballochmyle, and the house where you lived in Mauchline. 'We'll go to that first; it's not a great sight, I warn you only a whitewashed, thatched cottage in a by-street. When we've seen that, we'll take a trap and drive to the other places. 'But that will cost a great deal, said Gladys doubtfully, recalled for the moment to the small economies it was her daily lot to practise.
The whole town of Mauchline looks rusty and time-worn, even the newer houses, of which there are several, being shadowed and darkened by the general aspect of the place.
Even the gift of a pretty heifer he repays with a song. Besides all this, he was exciseman; and he loved galloping over the hills in search of recreants, and cozy sittings in the tap of the "Jolly Beggars" of Mauchline, better than he loved a sight of the stunted barley of Ellisland.
I have it not, indeed, to spare here, as I am only a sojourner in a strange land in this place; but in a day or two I return to Mauchline, and there I have the bank-notes through the house like salt permits. There is a great degree of folly in talking unnecessarily of one's private affairs.
This was the last thing which we saw in Dumfries worthy of record; and it ought to be noted that our guide refused some money which my companion offered her, because I had already paid her what she deemed sufficient. At the railway-station we spent more than a weary hour, waiting for the train, which at last came up, and took us to Mauchline.
The fashion of paving the village street, and patching one shabby house on the gable-end of another, quite shuts out all verdure and pleasantness; but, I presume, we are not likely to see a more genuine old Scotch village, such as they used to be in Burns's time, and long before, than this of Mauchline.
He had known Richmond when he was a clerk with Gavin Hamilton, and had kept up a correspondence with him ever since he had left Mauchline.
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