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savoury to all that knew her for a desirable professor,
Christian Menzies in Hochmagirdle.” The manner of
which intimacy, and the consequences thereof, we now
proceed to relate.
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CHAPTER EIGHTH
Reuben and Rachel, though as fond as doves,
Were yet discreet and cautious in their loves,
Nor would attend to Cupid’s wild commands,
Till cool reflection bade them join their hands;
When both were poor, they thought it argued ill
Of hasty love to make them poorer still.
Crabbe’s Parish Register.
WHILE WIDOW BUTLER and widower Deans struggled with
poverty, and the hard and sterile soil of “those parts
and portions” of the lands of Dumbiedikes which it was
their lot to occupy, it became gradually apparent that
Deans was to gain the strife, and his ally in the conflict
was to lose it. The former was a Man, and not much
past the prime of life—Mrs. Butler a woman, and declined
into the vale of years, This, indeed, ought in time