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Updated: July 23, 2025
Nobody else will be here, unless, indeed, Mrs Marsham should be asked, unknown to myself." Then she sat herself down to think, to think especially about the cruelty of husbands. She had been told over and over again, in the days before her marriage, that Burgo would ill-use her if he became her husband. The Marquis of Auld Reekie had gone so far as to suggest that Burgo might probably beat her.
He wullna be gettin' thae things; an' it wad be maist michty, noo, gin ye couldna win the bittie dog awa' frae the reekie auld toon. Gang oot wi' 'im an' rin on the brae an' bid 'im find the nests aneath the whins." In a moment they were out on the heather, and it seemed, indeed, as if Bobby might be won.
He had a genius for mathematics a gift which crops up, like music, in the most unexpected corners and from plough-boy and herd he had become an actuary in Auld Reekie. Wilson had no need to be afraid, the meagre fool, for his host could have bought him and sold him.
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