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Immediately the doctor's dogcart was close to them, with Rob Dow for its only occupant. He was driving slowly, or Whamond could not have escaped the horse's hoofs. "Is that you, Rob Dow?" said the precentor sourly. "I tell you, you'll be gaoled for stealing the doctor's machine." "The Hielandman wasna muckle hurt, Rob," Hendry said, more good- naturedly.
"She said to me," Whamond continued, "that the women o' the congregation would be fond to handle the hair. Could I tell her that the women was waur agin him than the men? I shivered to hear her. "'Syne when they're a'sitting breathless listening to his preaching, she says, 'they'll be able to picture him as a bairn, just as I often do in the kirk mysel'.
Since Tammas Whamond died we have had to enlarge the Thrums cemetery twice; so it can matter not at all to him, and but little to me, what you who read think of him. All his life children ran from him. He was the dourest, the most unlovable man in Thrums.
"I stamped my foot, and she gae me an apologetic look, and she says, 'I canna help boasting about his being so fond o' me. "Ay, but here was me saying to mysel', 'Do your duty, Tammas Whamond; you sluggard, your duty, and without lifting my een frae her fingers I said sternly, 'The chances are, I said, 'that these mittens will never be worn by the hands they are worked for.
"Sluggard in the laft, awake!" he cried to Bell Whamond, who had forgotten herself, and it was felt that there must be good stuff in him. A breeze from Heaven exposed him on Communion Sabbath. On the evening of this solemn day the door of the Auld Licht kirk was sometimes locked, and the congregation repaired, Bible in hand, to the commonty.
Dishart succeeded, and it was well known that he had advised the authorities to grant the use of the little town-house to the club on Friday evenings. As he solemnly warned his congregation against attending the meetings the position he had taken up created talk, and Lang Tammas called at the manse with Sanders Whamond to remonstrate.
"It's well kent " began Hendry, and would have recalled his words. Hendry Munn, "cried the precentor," if you hae minded onything that may help us, out wi't." "I was just minding," the kirk officer answered reluctantly, "that Nanny allows it's Mr. Dishart that has been keeping her frae the poorhouse. You canna censure him for that, Tammas." "Can I no?" retorted Whamond.
From Sam'l, too, I turned, with no more than a groan; but he cried after me, "Perdition on the man that has played that leddy false." Had Margaret been at her window she must have seen me, so recklessly did I hurry up the minister's road, with nothing in me but a passion to take Whamond by the throat. He was not in the garden. The kitchen door was open.
If he did not choose to take them into his confidence, it was no affair of theirs. That there was something queer about the marriage, however, seemed certain. Sandy Whamond, who was a soured man after losing his eldership, said that he believed she had been an "Englishy" in other words, had belonged to the English Church; but it is not probable that Mr. Dishart would have gone the length of that.
"'I ken it wasna for me you did it, she said, 'but for him; but, oh, Mr. Whamond, will that make me think the less o' you? He's my all, she says, wi' that smile back in her face, and a look mixed up wi't that said as plain, 'and I need no more. I thocht o' saying that some builds their house upon the sand, but dagont, dominie, it's a solemn thing the pride mithers has in their laddies.
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