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They were evidently of all classes and ranks originally, but now, and in this country of real measurements, they ranked simply according to the 'man' in them. 'See that handsome, young chap of dissipated appearance? said Craig; 'that's Vernon Winton, an Oxford graduate, blue blood, awfully plucky, but quite gone. When he gets repentant, instead of shooting himself, he comes to Mrs. Mavor. Fact.
By and by they had enough of music, and Violet shut the piano, and sat down beside the window with her work again. Jem had the grace to wait till the children went out, and then he said: "Mamma, you said I was to tell you the next time, and here it is. You must have noticed yourself Violet's manner, I mean. Philip noticed it, I could see. She was as stiff and dignified as Mrs Mavor herself.
His father had put it all down to Cassy Mavor, who had unsettled things since she had come to Lumley's, and, being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care. Prosperity had not softened him; it had given him an arrogance unduly emphasized by a reputation for rigid virtue and honesty.
'The doctor? Oh! you mean Connor. He is hardly there yet. You don't know each other. Permit me to present Mr. Connor, Mrs. Mavor. As she bowed slightly, her eyes looked into mine with serious gaze, not inquiring, yet searching my soul. As I looked into her eyes I forgot everything about me, and when I recalled myself it seemed as if I had been away in some far place.
"The Lord preserve 's!" cried Jean Mavor, with uplifted hands, when she saw them enter the kitchen. "He'll dee that, mem," returned Janet, with a smile. "But what can he dee? Gien ye be droont oot o' the hills, what's to come o' hiz i' the how? I wad ken that!" said Jean. "The watter's no up to yer door yet," remarked Janet.
Mavor, he straightened himself as if for a fight. 'I ain't no good at makin' speeches, he began; 'but it ain't speeches we want. We've got somethin' to do, and what we want to know is how to do it. And to be right plain, we want to know how to drive this cursed whisky out of Black Rock. You all know what it's doing for us at least for some of us.
What else would you have? I resolved I would rage and fret no more, and that I would worry Mrs. Mavor with no more argument or expostulation, but, as my friend had asked, 'Be good to her.
Then in came the brownie again; and when Jean Mavor entered, there was her work done as usual. Fergus was hours late for breakfast, and when he went into the common room, found his aunt alone there. "Weel, auntie." he said, "I think I fleggit yer broonie!" "Did ye that, man? Ay! An' syne ye set tee, an' did the wark yersel to save yer auntie Jean's auld banes?" "Na, na! I was o'er tiret for that.
That's why I didn't order Mick back when I saw him going out with the team." "Cassy Mavor," interjected a third voice from a corner behind the great stove "Cassy Mavor, of the variety-dance-and-song, and a talk with the gallery between!"
When Jean Mavor she was the farmer's half-sister opened the door, she stopped short and stared; the kitchen was not as she had left it the night before! She concluded she must be mistaken, for who could have touched it? and entered. Then it became plain beyond dispute that the floor had been swept, the table wiped, the place redd up, and the fire roused. "Hoot!
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