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That worthy personage had fully adopted her, and entering, tall and

stately, in her evening black silk and white apron, began by professing

her anxiety to be any assistance in her power, saying, "she'd be

won'erfu' proud to serve Miss Willia scholar in his sair trouble"

Emmie thanked her, and rejoiced that the Colonel was out of harm's way

"Deed, aye, ma'am, he's weel awa' He has sic a i' thae laddies

an' their bit bairn o' a mither, I'll no say he'd been easy keepit out

o' the thick o' the distress, an' it's ane, that he seeks to take siccan a lift of the

concern I've mony a tiood as a faither to him, when he was sick an' lonesoes"

"Would it not be what he ht like, to take in the children out of the

way of infection?"

"'Deed, Miss Ernificant curtsey, "I'm thinkin' ye

ken my maister Colin amaist as weel as I do He's the true son of his

forbears, an' Gowanbrae used to be always open in the auld lord's tirandfather Foreby, that he owes so ested that it was a pity to wait for a letter

froreed She "liked the nurse as an

extraordinar' douce wolish madams that Miss

Isabel--that's Mrs Coeant and the tailor bodie did not need much, and the