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Burns would not have turned his back on his fellows for the most lucrative office in the kingdom; that, he would have considered as selling his soul to the devil. Yet, on the other hand, what could any of these men do for a poet who was 'owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool'? Burns waited on in the expectation that those who had the power would take it upon themselves to do something for him.
"It was na to see the like of you I cam' here," said she, with a scornful toss of her head. "I ken that, Marion," replied Elspa, mournfully. "And what business then hae ye to come to snool me?" Elspa for a little while made no answer to this, but, drying her eyes, she went to her seat composedly, and then said, "'Cause ye're my sister, and brought shame and disgrace on a' your family.
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