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His home is but a poor place, but the rough room in which he works is big enough to hold a deal of sweet content. It is cheery enough, too, to attract the Pettybaw weans, who steal in on wet days and sit on the floor playing with the thrums, or with bits of coloured ravellings.
Who, indeed, could see her, and hear her sad history without loving her purity, and her devoted affection to the memory of him that was only the husband of a day, without pitying the stricken girl who suffered so much, and wishing that time, which weans us from our greatest sorrows, may, by its influence, mellow her afflictions, until the bitterness of their spirit passes out of her soul.
And the old Laird of Scaurdale made the lassies keep their faces lowered, for he would be a bluff hearty man, with little false modesty in him, if indeed he would be having any of any kind. "There is nothing," says he, "will be taming a lass like skelping a wean, or curing him o' the hives, and it's weans I will be wanting about the place," says he.
In short, things grew to a perfect hostility, for a swarm of weans came out from the schools of Irville on a Saturday afternoon, and, forgathering with ours, they had a battle with stones on the toll-road, such as was dreadful to hear of; for many a one got a mark that day he will take to the grave with him.
"And what's to become of my poor weans, Master Aleck? We shall all be turned out of the cottage." "I don't think you will," said Aleck. "I daresay uncle won't let anyone interfere with you."
'I'll no quit Jamie or the weans, said little Mary resolutely, turning back as the three-year-old boy elicited a squall from the eighteen-months one. 'Johnnie! Johnnie! what gars ye tak' away wee Andie's claw? Here, my mannie.
He looks just like a piece of cheese: he's not a brilliant sort of chap: he has a dull and vacant map: his eyes are blank, his face is red, his ears stick out beside his head. In fact, to end these compliments, he would be dear at thirty cents. Yet Fame has welcomed to her Hall this self-same Washington McCall. With eloquence the world she weans from chops and steaks and pork and beans.
At Farranshane Hope bade him stand still and look at a farmhouse which stood a little back from the road. "It was there," he said, "that William Orr lived. His widow and weans are there now. You know the story, Neal?" "I know it; yes, I know the outlines of it. Do you tell it to me again."
A meeting of the session was forthwith held; for here was Thomas Wilson's wife and all his weans, an awful cess, thrown upon the parish; and it was settled outright among us, that Mr Docken, who was then an elder, but is since dead, a worthy man, with a soft tongue and a pleasing manner, should go to Irville, and get Thomas, if possible, released from the recruiters.
"You, Balderstone!" replied the Master; "you are forgetting yourself, I think." "But I think no," said Balderstone; "for I can just tell ye a' about the castle on this knowe-head as weel as if ye were at it. Only dinna pit yoursell into a kippage, and expose yoursell before the weans, or before the Marquis, when ye gang down-bye."
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