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Updated: May 27, 2025
"I hope not, Mrs Niven," said Jack, laughing, as he shook her hand heartily and sat down, "for my own sake as well as yours; because I have come to take my old room if it is vacant." "Yer auld room, Maister Jack!" exclaimed the bewildered woman. "Yes, if it is not already occupied." "The yin wi' the reeky lum and the view o' chimbley-pots frae the wundy?" "The same.
"Try the wundy, then." "I'm sweer'd to break the wundy," said Liz. "Losh, man, I'll try the lum!" The chimney, to which old Liz referred, was capacious enough to admit a larger frame than hers. Moreover, it was a short one, and the fire had long ago been drowned out. With the enthusiasm of an explorer, the little woman stooped and entered the fireplace.
Ye see, the disease that's broke oot amang them whatever it is made some o' them sae desprit that they got through the wundy that looks to the sea an' creepit alang the precipice. It was a daft-like thing to try in the daylight; but certain death would hae been their lot, I suspec', if they had ventured on a precipice like that i' the dark.
"Poor't oot, then, laird poor't oot," said the man, impatiently. "Ye'll fin' a glass i' the wundy." Fetching a wine-glass from the window Mr Gordon half filled it with a liquid of a dark brown colour, which the sick man quaffed with almost fierce satisfaction, and then lay down with a sigh.
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