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So leaving the troubles and temptations of Irvine behind, he carried home a smirched name to his father's house. Here, too, troubles were gathering. Bad harvests were followed by money difficulties, and, weighed down with all his cares, William Burns died. The brothers had already taken another farm named Mossgiel. Soon after the father's death the whole family went to live there.
I visited my friend, a few days after my arrival in Irvine, at the farm-house of Mossgiel, to which, on the death of his father, he had removed, with his brother Gilbert and his mother.
Third and last in these series of interpositions, a letter came one day to Mossgiel Farm for Robert. He went to the window to read it; a sudden change came over his face, and he left the room without a word. Years afterwards, when the story began to leak out, his family understood that he had then learned the death of Highland Mary.
But it was noticeable that she preferred Walter's company, that she spoke oftenest to him; and when the lawyer and the minister went into the inn to have some refreshment while waiting for the train, the two young people walked up the road to Mossgiel. Walter was very gloomy and downcast, and she, quick to notice it, asked the cause. 'You know it quite well, he said abruptly.
Grahame's conversation, in which he had demanded that she should make a six months' trial of life, freed from the associations which her early poverty had fastened on her. In a few weeks after her return to New-York, the six months were completed. On the day preceding its exact completion, Lilian expressed to Mr. Trevanion her wish to visit Mossgiel.
I have not perused Tasso enough to form an opinion: in some future letter you shall have my ideas of him; though I am conscious my criticisms must be very inaccurate and imperfect, as there I have ever felt and lamented my want of learning most. XC. To MR. SAMUEL BROWN, KIRKOSWALD. MOSSGIEL, 4th May 1788. DEAR UNCLE, This, I hope, will find you and your conjugal yoke-fellow in your good old way.
Then a year or two afterward, I went in debt to buy that plant of Mulligan's him that was killed off the colt at Mossgiel and that same winter the pleuro broke out in my lot, and they went like rotten sheep till fourteen were gone; and then, of course, the plague was stopped.
I am gratified with your kind inquiries after Jean; as, after all, I may say with Othello Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! I go for Edinburgh on Monday. Yours, MOSSGIEL, 7th March 1788. DEAR SIR, I have partly changed my ideas, my dear friend, since I saw you. I took old Glenconner with me to Mr.
Burns saw them, in all their tinsel of academic tradition, through and through. Coming from Edinburgh to the quiet home-life of Mossgiel was like coming out of the vitiated atmosphere of a ballroom into the pure and bracing air of early morning. Away from the fever of city life, he only gradually comes back to sanity and health.
With the small sum allowed them, they buried their father, took another farm, Mossgiel, in Mauchline, and began again the long struggle with poverty. Such, in outline, is Burns's own story of his early life, taken mostly from his letters. Here we see the boy at school; for like most Scotch peasants, the father gave his boys the best education he possibly could.
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