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CHAPTER I. THE SWEET-SINGERS.
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When I was a child in short-coats a spaewife came to the town-end, and for a silver groat paid by my mother she riddled1 my fate. It came to little, being no more than that I should miss love and fortune in the sunlight and find them in the rain. The woman was a haggard, black-faced gipsy, and when my mother asked for more she turned on her heel and spoke2 gibberish; for which she was presently driven out of the place by Tarn3 Roberton, the baillie, and the village dogs. But the thing stuck in my memory, and together with the fact that I was a Thursday's bairn, and so, according to the old rhyme, "had far to go," convinced me long ere I had come to man's estate that wanderings and surprises would be my portion.
It is in the rain that this tale begins. I was just turned of eighteen, and in the back-end of a dripping September set out from our moorland house of Auchencairn to complete my course at Edinburgh College. The year was 1685, an ill year for our countryside; for the folk were at odds4 with the King's Government, about religion, and the land was full of covenants5 and repressions6. Small wonder that I was backward with my colleging, and at an age when most lads are buckled7 to a calling was still attending the prelections of the Edinburgh masters. My father had blown hot and cold in politics, for he was fiery8 and unstable9 by nature, and swift to judge a cause by its latest professor. He had cast out with the Hamilton gentry10, and, having broken the head of a dragoon in the change-house of Lesmahagow, had his little estate mulcted in fines. All of which, together with some natural curiosity and a family love of fighting, sent him to the ill-fated field of Bothwell Brig, from which he was lucky to escape with a bullet in the shoulder. Thereupon he had been put to the horn, and was now lying hid in a
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追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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vi.摔跤,角力;搏斗;全力对付 | |
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n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢 | |
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