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And noo she canna even steek thae black, black e'en, nor wind the corpse-claith aboot yon comely limbs sae straight and bonny as they were I hae straiked and kissed sae oft and oft. O wae's me wae's me! What will I do withoot my bonny laddies!" It was with the sound of his mother's lament still in his ears that Sholto rode sadly over the hill to Thrieve.
"Have done!" It was all that he could say, for like many he had heard of men visiting the Painted Lady by stealth, and he had only wondered, with other gossips, who they were. He crossed again to the side of the dead woman, "And Ballingall's was the only corpse you ever saw straiked?" he said in wonder, she had done her work so well.
Her mamma did not seem very unwell, but she fell asleep, and she died sleeping, and then Grizel went back to Double Dykes for linen and straiked her. Some say in Thrums that a spade was found in the Lair, but that is only the growth of later years. Grizel had done all she could do, and through the long Saturday she sat by the side of the body, helpless and unable to cry.
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