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"'Deed, o for

twa years She'll say the gude word for me, every way"

"I shall want you to be part of the day in the salesroom; but I will

provide you a suitable dress for that purpose; and I will give you ten

shillings a week, at first Will that do?"

"It will do weel, ie Promoter"

"Coie"

"Very well Coie"

The dress provided by Mrs Lauder was a long, plain, black , with sie looked

exceedingly handsome and stately in it Her as not hard, but the

hours were long, and there was no outlook She could not lift her head and

catch fro of limitless space and freedoers who always gave her the

civil word, than to be with kin who used the freedom of their relationship

only to wound and annoy her And her little rooth and peace Also, the Sabbath was all her own; and

her place in the kirk to which she regularly as generally filled an

hour before service bells That kirk was a good place to Maggie She was

one of those delightsoe, have a fervent

and beautiful faith in God Into His teht,

but kept her heart, there, "one silent space,

A little sacred spot of loneliness