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Willie Caird turned eastward toward Glasgow Green, David hailed a passing omnibus and was soon set down before a handsome house on the Sauchiehall Road. He went in by the back door, winning from old Janet, in spite of herself, the grimmest shadow of a smile. "Are my father and mother at home, Janet?"
M'Cosh, "for I got it frae ma sister Annie, her that's in Australia. Here see, there's a post-caird for ye. It's a rale nice yin. Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. There's Annackers' shope as plain's plain." Mhor looked discontentedly at the offering. "I wish," he said slowly "I wish I had a post-card of a hippopotamus being sick." "Ugh, you want unnaitural post-cairds.
Some months afterwards, Alick met another old chum in Sauchiehall Street. 'By the bye, Alick, said he, 'I met a gentleman in New York who was asking for you. 'Who was that? asked Alick. 'The new second engineer on board the So-and-so, was the reply. 'Well, and who is he? 'Brown, to be sure. For Brown had been one of the fortunate quartette aboard the Circassia.
With his hand in one pocket, his hat drawn a little over his brow, he sauntered, with heavy and reluctant step, up Renfield Street, in the direction of Sauchiehall Street. He did not know what tempted him to choose the opposite direction from his home. We are often so led, apparently aimlessly, towards what may change the very current of our lives.
Some months afterwards, Alick met another old chum in Sauchiehall Street. "By the bye, Alick," said he, "I met a gentleman in New York who was asking for you." "Who was that?" asked Alick. "The new second engineer on board the So-and-So," was the reply. "Well, and who is he?" "Brown, to be sure." For Brown had been one of the fortunate quartette aboard the Circassia.
Laddie," he turned to Doggie, "the more one wallows in hedonism, the more one realizes its unplumbed depths." A little girl of ten, neatly pigtailed but piteously shod, came near and cast a child's envious eye on Doggie's bread and jam. "Approach, my little one," Phineas cried in French words but with the accent of Sauchiehall Street. "If I gave you a franc, what would you do with it?"
Isabella was black as a wee crow. It is just that they're both very bonny. I wonder what has happened to Isabella. She must be sixty-five. I saw her once in Glasgow, in Sauchiehall Street, after she was married, but she would not speak. Yet what else could I have done?
As they walked about the cathedral and college, and up and down the High Street, while she looked with shuddering horror on the squalid, hopeless poverty of the inhabitants of those localities, she asked her brother where the rich people lived. "At the West End," answered David. "On Sauchiehall Road, and the crescents further on, away maistly up to Kelvin Grove."
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