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She had just decided on the garret when she saw Rob Dow morosely regarding her from the gateway. "Whaur is he?" growled Rob. "He's out, but it's no for me to say whaur he is," replied Jean, whose weakness was to be considered a church official. "No that I ken," truthfulness compelled her to add, for she had an ambition to be everything she thought Gavin would like a woman to be.
Elsie's voice blended with the great words, and turning her lustrous eyes full on my face, she murmured "It's a' bricht and blythesome whaur I'm walkin' noo there's no valley here nor nae glen ava, but the way is fu' o' licht and beauty." Her eyes sought her husband's face: "Oh, Donal'! To think we canna walk this way thegither!
"What did she say?" "Weel, you see, there was a dancing ball on, and Kaytherine Crummie took me to a window whaur I could stand on a flower-pot and watch the critturs whirling round in the ball like teetotums.
Aggie, I'm grouin' auld, an' railly no fit to mak a bed my lane no to mention scoorin' the flure! It's no considerate o' ye, Aggie! jist 'cause yer father hoots, he was but yer gran'father! 's deid o' a guid auld age, an' gaithert til HIS fathers, to gang an' lea' me my lane! Whaur am I to get a body I cud bide to hae i' my sicht, an' you awa' you 'at's been like bane o' my bane to me!
'Tee hee, she went, 'tee hee! What a funny face Tom had on him. Tee hee! Then I heard a voice from the bed speaking composedly. 'Ay, I aye kenned he'd murdered puir Jeannie. Whaur wast ye fund my puir lassie? she asked Sandie.
'This is Capital speakin' noo, Leezbeth, said his father very sarcastically. 'It's kind o' amusin'. We're the twa sides, as it were Capital and Labour. Ye've no' been lang o' forgettin' whaur ye sprang frae, my man. Walter's father had been a skilful workman in his day, with an intelligence above the average; had he kept from drink, there is no doubt he would have risen from the ranks.
It's ane o' the preevileeges o' rank," said Malcolm. "It taks a faimily that hauds on throu' centeries in a hoose whaur things gether, to mak sic an unaccoontable getherin' o' buiks as that. It's a gran' sicht worth livin' to see."
"'My father's awa buying a fishing-boat, you insisted; 'and when I speir at my mother whaur my first father is, she says I'm havering. "'Gavin Ogilvy is your name, I said. 'No, you answered, 'I have a new name. My mother telled me my name is aye to be Gavin Dishart now.
Then stung with the reflection that he had not been asked to stay to tea, he added: "It's no for the likes o' you, Annie, to gang to gentlefowk's hooses, makin' free whaur ye're no wantit. Sae dinna lat me hear the like again." But it was wonderful how Bruce's influence over Annie, an influence of distress, was growing gradually weaker.
And they brocht me whaur there was a schooner lyin' ready to gang to Archangel. And here I am." Was there ever a gladder heart than Annie's? She was weeping as if her life would flow away in tears. She had known that Alec would come back to God some day. He ceased speaking, but she could not cease weeping. If she had tried to stop the tears, she would have been torn with sobs.
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