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"Dominie, it's sax-and-twenty years since I was made an elder o' the kirk. I mind the day as if it was yestreen. Mr. Carfrae made me walk hame wi' him, and he took me into the manse parlor, and he set me in that very chair. It was the first time I was ever in the manse.
"'What is it you hinna done that you should hae done? she said. 'Oh, Mr. Whamond, if you want my help, it's yours. "'Your son's a' the earth to you, I cried, 'but my eldership's as muckle to me. Sax-and-twenty years hae I been an elder, and now I maun gie it up. "'Wha says that?" she speirs. "'I say it, I cried. 'I've shirked my duty. I gie ap my eldership now.
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