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On Friday, Miss Mally Glencairn received a brief note fro her, that she and the Doctor would reach the ing her, therefore, to go

over from Irvine, and see that the house was in order for their

reception This note ritten froe, fro, as Mrs Pringle said, "ers of the sea which they met with in the smack of Leith that

took theence, she went to Miss

Isabella Tod, and requested her company for the next day to Garnock,

where they arrived betihter Becky were then on a consolatory visit to Mr Craig We

had co to proone to wait the upshot The upshot waswas soon no more;--she was taken, as Mrs

Glibbans observed on the occasion, from the earthly arms of her husband,

to the spiritual bosom of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which was far

better But the baby survived; so that, ith getting a nurse, and

the burial, and all the work and handling that a birth and death in one

house at the sa declared, that he could not do

without Mrs Glibbans; and she, with all that Christianity by which she

was so zealously distinguished, sent for Miss Becky, and took up her

abode with him till it would please Him, without whom there is no

comfort, to wipe the eyes of the pious elder In a word, she staid so

long, that a ru would need a wife to

look after his bairn; and that Mrs Glibbans was destined to supply the

desideratu his dinner society with Miss Mally and Miss