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Beaumont, and it was in compliment to her former mistress and her husband that she named her youngest son James Beaumont after the latter. The boy's education was confined to the common elements of reading, writing, and arithmetic, which he partly acquired at the parish school of Strathbungo near Glasgow, and partly at the Chapel School, as it was called, in the Gorbals at Glasgow.
Man, Jock Goudie has won the C.B." "Jock Goudie" an envious bodie will pucker as if he had never heard the name "Jock Goudie? Wha's he for a Goudie? Oh ay, let me see now. Oo-ooh, I ken him fine. His grannie keepit a sweetie-shop in Strathbungo." There you have the "nesty" Scotsman. So, too, on lower grounds, would his wife's sluttishness.
He went back to 'is roller-skating, and 'er ladyship took up visiting the poor and eventually contracted an altogether suitable alliance by marrying Lord Ronald Spofforth, the second son of his Grace the Duke of Gorbals and Strathbungo." "How did it happen?"
'Are you married, Jack? says I, remembering how consumedly in love he was with his cousin Letty Lovelace, when the Cuttykilts were quartered at Strathbungo some twenty years ago. 'Married? no, says he. 'Not money enough. Hard enough to keep myself, much more a family, on five hundred a year.
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