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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: CHAPTER 111. The widow was weather-beaten and rough. She sat mending an old net. ' The gentleman's welcome, ' said she; but there was no gratification in her tone, and but little surprise. His Lordship then explained that, understanding there were worthy people in distress, he was in hopes he might be permitted to assist them, and that she must blame a neighbour of hers if he had broken in upon her too abruptly with this object. He then, with a blush, hinted at ten shillings, which he begged she would consider as merely an instalment, until he could learn the precise nature of her embarrassments, and the best way of placing means at her disposal. The widow heard all this with a lack-lustre mind. For many years her life had been unsuccessful labour; if anything ever had come to her, it hadalways been a misfortune; her incidents had been thornsa her events, daggers. She could not realise a human angel coming to hei relief, and she did not realise it, and she worked away at her net. At this Mucker, to whom his Lordship's speech appeared monstrously weak and pointless, drew nigh, and gave the widow, in her ear, his version, namely, his sister's embellished. It was briefly this: a ' That the gentleman was a daft lord from England, who had come with the bank in his breeks, to remove poverty from Scotland, beginning with her. " Sao speak loud aneuch, and ye '11 no want siller,"' was his polite corollary. His Lordship rose, laid a card on a chair, begged her to make use of him, et cetera; he then, recalling the oracular prescription, said, ' Do me the favour to apply to me for any little sum you have a use for, and in return I will beg of you (if it does not bore you too much) to make me acquainted with any little troubles you may have encountered in the course of yo...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458819741 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458819744 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $20.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 142 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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