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Thackeray, the realist, in "Henry Esmond" and its sequel "The Virginians," departed further from his own time and place than Hawthorne, the romantic, in "The House of the Seven Gables"; and while the realistic Mr. Meredith frequently fares abroad in his stories, especially to Italy, the romantic Mr. Barrie looks upon life almost always from his own little window in Thrums.
He was the Established Church minister at the top of the glen, but the dominie was an Auld Licht, and trudged into Thrums to church nearly every Sunday with his daughter.
"Somewhere they have found something that belongs to one of us, and, having once smelled it, have followed." I thought for a moment. "Do you believe they found the charred fragments of my pouch-flap? Could they scent my scorched thrums from where I now lie? Only a hound could do that! It is not given to men to scent a trail as beasts scent it running perdu."
A plucky fellow, this Captain Ure who saved him. I wonder who he is." "I wonder!" Corp said with a groan. "There was an Alexander Bett with him, according to the papers," Tommy went on. "Do you know any Bett?" "It's no a Thrums name," Corp replied thankfully. "I just made it up." "What do you mean?" Tommy asked blankly. Corp sighed, and went back again to the wagon.
She and Miss Ailie were happy in Thrums, for time took the pain out of the affair of Mr. McLean, until it became not merely a romantic memory, but, with the letters he wrote to Miss Kitty and her answers, the great quiet pleasure of their lives. They were friendly letters only, but Miss Kitty wrote hers out in pencil first and read them to Miss Ailie, who had been taking notes for them.
In his unsuccessful attempt to reach Whinbusses. the grieve had met the relief party from Thrums. Already the weavers had helped Waster Lunny to stave off ruin, and they were now on their way to Whinbusses, keeping together through fear of mist and water. Every few minutes Snecky Hobart rang his bell to bring in stragglers.
Maskelyne, Smith, and Thrums did a higher class of work than Blendershin, whose specialities were lower class private establishments and the cheaper sort of endowed schools. Indeed, so superior were Maskelyne, Smith, and Thrums that they enraged Lewisham by refusing at first to put him on their books.
Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility." He paused. "I hope," he said nervously, "that you don't sing the Paraphrases?" Mr.
"If you jest seed the Thrums town-house!" "St. Paul's ain't in Thrums." "It would like to be." After reflecting, Shovel said in desperation, "Well, then, my father were once at a hanging." Tommy replied instantly, "It were my father what was hanged."
Dishart, I says to mysel', 'I was the chief instrument under God in bringing him to Thrums, and I've come here to tell you that I'm to be the chief instrument under God in driving him out o't. Ay, but when I focht to bring out these words, my mouth snecked like a box.
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