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Menie and Merran looked sidelong each at the other, then their blue eyes fell to their plates. But Willy almost audibly smacked his lips. "Gude keep us! the meenister gaed thae sinners their licks!" "A sair sight, but an eedifying!" said Thomas. Robin Greenlaw pushed back his chair. He saw the inside of the kirk again, and two miserable, loutish, lawless lovers standing for public discipline.
Monnie turned hers up at Menie and said, "What did I tell you?" Menie never said another word about noses. He just changed the subject. He said, "Let's all slide down at once." Koko and Menie sat down on the sled. Monnie sat on Menie. Then they gave a few hitches to the sled and off they went. Whiz! How they flew! The pups came running after them.
For his handsome London house, he had little better than a cottage, in which his study was not a quarter of the size of the one he had left; he had sold two-thirds of his books; for three men and four women servants, he had but one old woman and his own daughter to do the work of the house; for all quadrupedal menie, he had but a nondescript canine and a contemptuous feline foundling; from a devoted congregation of comparatively educated people, he had sunk to one in which there was not a person of higher standing than a tradesman, and that congregation had now rejected him as not up to their mark, turning him off to do his best with fifty pounds a year.
"Now all the other blocks in this row must be just like this one," he said. Koko tried next. His block was almost right the first time. But then, as I have told you before, Koko was six. Monnie tried the next one. I am sorry to say hers wouldn't do at all. It was dreadfully crooked. They took turns. Menie cut a new block while Koko placed the last one on the snow wall.
The wind howled drearily about the house, and they listened to it for a time in silence. "It's no' like spring to-night, Janet," said Menie. "No, dear, it's as wintry a night as we have had this while. But the wind is changing to the south now, and we'll soon see the bare hills again." "Yes; I hope so," said Menie, softly. "Are you wearying for the spring, dear?" "Whiles I weary."
It might be thought a natural conclusion of the history of Menie Gray, that she should have married Hartley, to whom she stood much indebted for his heroic interference in her behalf.
So they crawled out on all fours. Nip and Tup came with them. Nip and Tup were on all fours, too, but they had run that way all their lives, so they could go much faster than the twins. They got out first. Then they ran round in circles in the snow and barked at the moon. When Menie and Monnie came out of the hole, Tup jumped up to lick Monnie's face.
Marian saw it with momentary wonder, and then coming up to her, she laid her arm gently over her neck and whispered, "Sandy is going with us too, Janet. There will be plenty of room for us all." "I've been telling Menie that I canna leave grannie," said Sandy, turning gravely to his mother. "You'll hae Norman and Harry, and them a', but grannie has none but me."
When the twins awoke, the sun was shining as brightly as ever, and Nip and Tup were barking at them through the hole in the roof. Kesshoo and Koolee were gone! Menie and Monnie were frightened. They were afraid they were left behind. They sat up in bed and howled! In a moment Koolee's face looked down at them through the roof. "What's the matter?" she said.
He left a considerable part of the moderate fortune which he had acquired to Menie Gray, who, of course, did not want for many advantageous offers of a matrimonial character. But she respected the memory of Hartley too much, to subdue in behalf of another the reasons which induced her to refuse the hand which he had so well deserved nay, it may be thought, had so fairly won.
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