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"Guid farbid!" cried the old woman from the bed. "Kenna ye wha's the prence o' 't, laddie? Makna a jeist o' the pooers 'at be." "Gien they binna ordeent o' God, what are they but a jeist?" returned Cosmo.
Sae I'll jist bide theroot wi' the bonny stars 'at's aye theroot, and kens a' aboot it, and disna think nane the waur o' me. 'Laddie! laddie! wha on the face o' God's yerth thinks the waur o' ye for a wrang dune ye? though wha has the wyte o' that same I daurna think, weel kennin 'at a'thing's aither ordeent or allooed, makin muckle the same.
"Daur ye to speyk that gait aboot yer ain son ay, and mine the mair gien ye disown him, Peter Bletherwick! and the Lord's ain ordeent minister forbye!" cried Marion, driven almost to her wits' end, but more by the persistent haunting of her own suspicion, which she could not repress, than the terror of her husband's threat.
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