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He recalled Lady Elspeth's dissatisfaction with his love-scenes, and thought, grimly, that now he could at all events enter fully into the feelings of the man who had lost the prize, and would be able to depict them to the life. If the choice had been left to him he would gladly have dispensed with all such knowledge to its profoundest depths, if only the prize had remained to him.
Long as my great-grandfather had lived, he was never a robust man, and Elspeth's chief ideas on the subject of his sketches bore reference to the colds he had caught, and the illnesses he had induced, by sitting in the east winds or lying on damp grass to do this or that sketch.
She put it on in the end, and syne when we heard the tramp o' the men, her mind misgave her, and she cried: 'For the love o' mercy, keep them out till I get it off again! So we were a' laughing when they came in. "Laddie, it was your father and Elspeth's that they brought wi' them, and he was a stranger to us, though we kent something about him afore the night was out.
There was a ring of boastfulness in his voice as he paraded the large number of useful things that Elspeth could not do. And yet David was a sensible and careful man. Was it helplessness that man loved in woman, then? It seemed to be Elspeth's helplessness that had made Tommy such a brother, and how it had always appealed to Aaron! No woman could be less helpless than herself, Grizel knew.
I began to feel that Gladys had been away a long time, and to wish for her return. I was much disappointed, then, on receiving a letter from her about a fortnight after Elspeth's death, telling me that Colonel Maberley had made up his mind to spend Easter in Paris, and that she had promised to accompany them. 'I shall be sorry to be so long without your companionship, she wrote.
When I bought the mahogany arm-chair, 'That's Elspeth's chair, I said to mysel'; and when I bought the bed, 'It's hers, I said. Ay; but I was soon disannulled o' that thait, for, in spite of me, they were all got for him. Not a rissom in that room is yours or mine, Elspeth; every muhlen belongs to him." "But who says so, Aaron? I am sure he won't." "I dinna ken them.
"Oh, yaas, ma'am course you knows white folks will be white folks white folks will be white folks. Your servant, ma'am." And the swamp swallowed him. The boy's eyes followed him as he whipped up the horse. "He's going to Elspeth's," he said. "Who is he?" "We just call him Old Pappy he's a preacher, and some folks say a conjure man, too." "And who is Elspeth?"
Oh, he knew, he knew without a doubt. Trust old Hamish for not missing much that was to the fore. He and his old wife, Jannet Gordon, had been in Lady Elspeth's service for over forty years, ever since her leddyship married into the family, and Lady Elspeth trusted them both implicitly and discussed most matters very freely with them.
"Oh, I would be delighted, dear Lady Elspeth, and I'll promise not to quarrel whatever you do to me." "Who ever heard of sunbeams quarrelling?" said Graeme gaily, with Lady Elspeth's earlier suggestion to himself dancing in his brain. "But think of London left utterly sunless." "London will never miss us," said Margaret. "It still has bridge, and we are neither of us players."
"If your honour wad permit me," said Edie, to whom the length of the conference restored a part of his professional audacity and native talkativeness "if your honour wad but permit me, I wad say, under correction of your lordship's better judgment, that auld Elspeth's like some of the ancient ruined strengths and castles that ane sees amang the hills.
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