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"Nane can tell She had a sair trial wi' yonder auld harridan her brother

brought to bide wi' her"

"I did not like the woman, Willie"

"Like her? Wha wad like her but the blackhearted and the black-tongued?

She gied the girl's gude name awa' to win hersel' a bit honor wi' auld

wives, and even the ie; sae when she

couldna thole her trouble langer, she went to her brither, and folks say,

he gied her the cold shoulder likewise But when four ane he

cam' here oot o' his wits nearly, and sent Janet Caird hame wi' a word,

and the care o' the house was put on Mysie Jardine Davie hasna set e'en

on his cottage, nor foot in it, since; nor sent any word to his auld

frien's--though as to frien's it is naething less than a professor he

changes hats or the time o' day with noo, they tell me; and I can weel

believe it, for he aye had the pride o' a Nebuchadnezzar in him"

Elder Mackelvine in a ie had been "hardly spoken of," he admitted; but "I dinna approve o'

the way oot o' trouble that she took," he added sternly "Lasses ought to

sit still and thole wrang, until He undertakes their case If Maggie had