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At any rate, I am not called to take an oar in it." "Yes, you are. I have been a good customer to you, Mistress Kilgour." "I am not denying it; at the same time I have been a good dress and bonnet maker to you, and earned every penny-bit you have paid me. The obligation is mutual, I'm thinking." "I can be a still better customer if you will prevent this gentle-shepherding and love-making.
I do not think a penny-bit of it is missing. Don't mind me! I am greeting for the very joy of it but O Andrew, you be to praise God! It is his doing, and marvellous in our eyes. Ask Christina. She can tell you better than I can." But Andrew could not speak. He touched his sister's hand, and dumbly looked into her happy face.
"Just try and believe that you are putting your collection into the hand of God Almighty, and not into a siller plate. Then you will put the shilling down and not the bawbee." "Perhaps. The thought is not a new one to me, and often I have forced myself to give a white shilling instead of a penny-bit at the kirk door, just to get the better of the de'il once in a while.
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