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Weir of Hermiston

CHAPTER I--LIFE AND DEATH OF MRS
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And it seems that's not the worst yet of it.

It seems he's called "The Hanging judge"-- it seems he's crooool.

I'll tell you what it is, mamma, there's a tex' borne in upon me: It were better for that man if a milestone were bound upon his back and him flung into the deepestmost pairts of the sea." "O, my lamb, ye must never say the like of that!" she cried.

"Ye're to honour faither and mother, dear, that your days may be long in the land.
It's Atheists that cry out against him--French Atheists, Erchie! Ye would never surely even yourself down to be saying the same thing as French Atheists?
It would break my heart to think that of you.

And O, Erchie, here are'na _you_ setting up to _judge_?
And have ye no forgot God's plain command--the First with Promise, dear?
Mind you upon the beam and the mote!" Having thus carried the war into the enemy's camp, the terrified lady breathed again.


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