Gilian the Dreamer (1899)

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345 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: not that wonderful ? The first time I saw her was at a wedding in Kames, Lochow, and she was the handsomest woman in the room, and there were sixty people at the wedding from all parts, and sixty-nine roasted hens at the supper. Well, well? dead ! blessings with her; did I not know her well ? Yes, and I knew her husband too, Long Angus, since the first day he came to Ladyfield for Old Mar?for the Paymaster?till the last day he came down the glen in a cart, and he was the only sober body in the funeral, perhaps because it was his own. Many a time I wondered that the widow did so well in the farm for Captain Campbell, with no man to help her, the sowing and the shearing, the dipping and the clipping, ploughmen and herds to keep an eye on, and bargains to make with wool merchants and drovers. Oh ! she was a clever woman, your grandmother. And now she's dead. Well, it's a way they have at her age! And the Paymaster must be told, though I know it will vex him greatly, because he is a sort of man who does not relish changes. Mind now you say Captain; you need not say Captain Campbell, but just Captain, and maybe a ' sir' now and then. I suppose you could not put off telling him for a half-hour or thereabouts longer, when he would be going home for dinner any way; it is a pity to spoil an old gentleman's meridian dram with melancholy news. No. You were just told to come straight away and tell him? well, it is the good soldier who makes no deviation from the word of command. Come away in then and?Captain mind?and the salute." The Sergeant More threw open the door of the room, filled up the space a second and gave a sort of free-and-easy salute. " A message for you, Captain," said he. The singing was done. The Major's mind was wandering over the plains of Waterloo to guess by the vac...

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