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But how she laughed at the tale, and how light-hearted Robert went home, are neither to be told. The next Sunday, the first time for many years, Dooble Sanny was at church with his wife, though how much good he got by going would be a serious question to discuss. Robert had his first lesson the next Saturday afternoon. Eager and undismayed by the presence of Mrs.
I'll save the hangman the bother o' feenishin' you!" and Sanny was upon Walker tearing at him like a cat, and clawing his face with his nails, punching, biting and kicking him as hard as he could drive his hands and feet. The attack was so sudden that Walker went down, and Sanny was on top of him before anyone could intervene.
Lammie, when next he went to Aberdeen, to take the soutar's fiddle, and get what he could for it, to help his widow. 'Poor Sanny! said Robert, 'it never cam' intil 's heid to sell her, nae mair nor gin she had been the auld wife 'at he ca'd her. Mr. Lammie undertook the commission; and the next time he saw Robert, handed him ten pounds as the result of the negotiation.
With beating heart he opened it, and lo, to his marvel, and the restoration of all the fair day, there was the violin which Dooble Sanny had left him when he forsook her for some one or other of the queer instruments of Fra Angelico's angels? In a flutter of delight he sat down on his trunk again and played the most mournful of tunes.
"Oh, well, in that case," said the mine owner, becoming serious, and speaking with slow deliberation. "Just let me hear what it is all about, and we'll see how matters stand after you have told me," and he sat down in a chair opposite Robertson as he spoke. "I hae lost my contracts, sir," began Sanny, not knowing how else to open up the subject.
'They're some black, I doobt, mem, he remarked, rubbing them hard upon his trowsers before he showed them; 'for I was amaist cawin' oot the brains o' Dooble Sanny wi' his ain lapstane. He's an ill-tongued chield. But eh! mem, ye suld hear him play upo' the fiddle! He's greitin' his een oot e'en noo for the bonnie leddy.
'Weel, tak her to the new Jeroozlem. Or maybe ye think Bell 'ill tak them for ye. Dooble Sanny caught up a huge boot, the sole of which was filled with broad-headed nails as thick as they could be driven, and, in a rage, threw it at Robert as he darted out. Through its clang against the door-cheek, the shoemaker heard a cry from the instrument. He cast everything from him and sprang after Robert.
Peter Pegg, he was glad to know, had got started on "oncost" work, and Andrew felt he had done right in not allowing Peter to take the collection with him. "I see Andra Marshall's back again," observed Sanny Robertson to Peter Pegg one evening three months later. "Ay," said Peter, "he was at Glampy, but his place was stopped, an' there wasna anither for him."
And stranger still, he found himself, before he reached home, praying once more in his heart both for Dooble Sanny and for himself. From that hour a faint hope was within him that some day he might try again, though he dared not yet encounter such effort and agony.
Dae you think we dinna ken the reason that Sanny has lost his contracts an' the reason why Tam Granger has stepped into them? Oh, ay," she cried, her voice rising as she continued. "I can see hoo things are workin'! I ken a' aboot it. Wee Leebie, I suppose, will be afore some o' us noo. The stuck-up limmer that she is.
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