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Chapter Thirteen.
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A Chapter of Catastrophes1.
It was the very next day after the conversation in the library that the waggonette was sent over to Cove2 to meet the steamer and fetch Mrs Moss3, who was expected to arrive. As Ian Anderson and Donald with the ragged4 head had to return home that day, they were offered a lift by their friend Roderick.
“I wad raither waalk, Rodereek,” said Ian; “but I dar’ say I may as weel tak a lift as far as the Cluff; chump up, Tonal’.”
Donald was not slow to obey. Although active and vigorous as a mountain goat, he had no objection to repose5 under agreeable conditions.
“What think ye o’ the keeper this time, Rodereek?” asked the boatman as they drove away.
“Oo, it wull be the same as last time,” answered the groom6. “He’ll haud on for a while, an’ then he wull co pack like the soo to her wallowin’ i’ the mire7.”
“I doubt ye’re richt,” returned Ian, with a solemn shake of the head. “He’s an unstiddy character, an’ he hes naither the fear o’ Cod8 nor man pefore his eyes. But he’s a plees’nt man when he likes.”
“Oo, ay, but there iss not in him the wull to give up the trink. He hes given it up more than wance before, an’ failed. He will co from pad to worse in my opinion. There iss no hope for him, I fear.”
“Fery likely,” and on the strength of that opinion Ian drew a flask9 from his pocket, and the two cronies had what the groom called a “tram” together.
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highlander
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