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The prosperity of the House with the Green Shutters had been a fact of his existence; it had never entered his boyish mind to question its continuance. But a weakening doubt stole through his limbs. What would become of him if the Gourlays were threatened with disaster? He had a terrifying vision of himself as a lonely atomy, adrift on a tossing world, cut off from his anchorage.
It took a clever man to make Tam Wylie dance to his piping. But Thomas, the knave, knew that he could always take a rise out the Provost by cracking up the Gourlays, and that to do it now was the best way of fobbing him off about the hay. "Gourlay!" muttered the Provost, in disgust. And Tam winked at the baker. "Losh," said Sandy Toddle, "yonder's the Free Kirk minister going past the Cross!
I only imagined, I suppose, that you said something to that effect; but it does not matter I have no intimacy with the Gourlays, I assure you I think that is what you call them and none at all with Sir Thomas is not that his name? Goodby now; I shall take a walk through the town how is this you name it? Ballytrain, I think and return at five, when I trust you will have dinner ready."
They were close to the Emporium, and with the tail of his eye he could see Wilson peeping from the door and listening to every word. This would be a hair in Wilson's neck! There were no clerical compliments for his son! The tables were turned at last. His father had a generous impulse to John for the bright triumph he had won the Gourlays.
For one thing, the son's success would justify the father's past and prevent it being quite useless; it would have produced a minister, a successful man, one of an esteemed profession. Again, that success would be a salve to Gourlay's wounded pride; the Gourlays would show Barbie they could flourish yet, in spite of their present downcome.
We are by ourselves the Gourlays whom God has cursed; we can have no neebours. Come ben the house, and I'll tell ye something," she whispered wildly. "Ay," she nodded, smiling with mad significance, "I'll tell ye something ... I'll tell ye something," and she dragged Janet to the kitchen. Janet's heart was rent for her brother, but the frenzy on her mother killed sorrow with a new fear.
What is it?" The post gasped and stammered; then "Ooh!" he shivered in horror, and covered his eyes, at a sudden picture in his brain. "Speak!" said a man solemnly. "They have they have they have a' killed themselves," stammered the postman, pointing to the Gourlays. Their loins were loosened beneath them.
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