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"He's a good man," said Mrs Glibbans, in a tone calculated to repress

the forwardness of Mrs Craig; but Miss Mally Glencairn having, in the

meanwhile, taken fro day frorass silenced all controversy

on that score by requesting her to proceed with the reading "She's a

clever wo, as resolved to cut a

figure in the conversation in her own house "She's a discreet woodly, too, as some that make mair wark about the elect"

Whether Mrs Glibbans thought this had any allusion to herself is not

susceptible of legal proof; but she turned round and looked at their

"ht al, however, pacified her, by proposing, "that,

before hearing the letter, they should take a dra, "our maister likes a been house, and ye a' ken

that we are providing for a handling" The as accordingly served,

and, in due time, Miss Mally Glencairn edified and instructed the party

with the contents of Mrs Pringle's letter

LETTER XXVI

Mrs Pringle to Miss Mally Glencairn DEAR MISS MALLY--You will have heard, by the peppers, of the gret