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The soutar's humour, however, aided by his violin, was a strong antidote against these evil influences. 'I doobt I'm gaein' to dee, Robert, he said at length one evening as the lad sat by his bedside. 'Weel, that winna do ye nae ill, answered Robert, adding with just a touch of bitterness 'ye needna care aboot that. 'I do not care aboot the deein' o' 't.
"Aye wad I til ony ane that's nearer His likness nor himsel and that ane's oor Isy! I wadna won'er, Jeemie, gien ye war fit for a drive the morn! In that case, I s' caw ye doon to the toon, and lat ye say yer ain say til her." James did not sleep much that night, and nevertheless was greatly better the next day indeed almost well. Before noon they were at the soutar's door.
The economy of Dooble Sanny's abode was this: the outer door was always left on the latch at night, because several families lived in the house; the soutar's workshop opened from the passage, close to the outer door, therefore its door was locked; but the key hung on a nail just inside the soutar's bedroom. All this Robert knew.
After his breakfast, he set out, his custom of a Monday morning, for what he called a quiet stroll; but his thoughts kept returning, ever with fresh resentment, to the soutar's insinuation for such he counted it on the Saturday.
When souls like Robert's have been ill-taught about God, the true God will not let them gaze too long upon the Moloch which men have set up to represent him. He will turn away their minds from that which men call him, and fill them with some of his own lovely thoughts or works, such as may by degrees prepare the way for a vision of the Father. One afternoon Robert was passing the soutar's shop.
The long-haired horse not yet proving equal to the journey, she had to walk home; but Eppie herself accompanied her, bent on taking her share in the burden of the child, which Maggie was with difficulty persuaded to yield. Eppie indeed carried him up to the soutar's door, but Maggie insisted on herself laying him in her father's arms.
Loe him, lassie, and ye'll never glaur the bonny goon ye broucht white frae his hert!" The soutar's face was solemn and white, and tears were running down the furrows of his cheeks. Maggie too was weeping. At length she said Supposin the mither o' my bairnie a wuman like that, can ye think it fair that her disgrace should stick til him?"
Soon finding himself unable, however, try as hard as he might, to be sure of anything, he became weary of the effort, and sank back into the old, self-satisfied, blind sleep. Out of this quiescence, however, a pang from the past one morning suddenly waked him, and almost without consciousness of a volition, he found himself at the soutar's door.
But as she ran, she heard loud noises of infantile jubilation, and re-entering the kitchen, was amazed to see the soutar's hands moving as persistently if not quite so rapidly as before: the child hung at the back of the soutar's head, in the bight of the long jack-towel from behind the door, holding on by the gray hair of his occiput.
Lammie, and indeed to cast himself upon the kindness of the household generally, Robert went up to his room to release his violin from its prison of brown paper. What was his dismay to find not his bonny leddy, but her poor cousin, the soutar's auld wife! It was too bad. Dooble Sanny indeed! He first stared, then went into a rage, and then came out of it to go into a resolution.
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