10/17 It is little good yours is doing lying in the Clyde Trust." "Jenny Callendar, you are my ain cousin four times removed, and you hae a kind o' right to speak your mind in my house; but you hae said enough, woman. It isna a question of money only; there are ither things troubling me mair than that. But women are but one-sided arguers. Good-night to you." He turned to the fire and sat down, but after a few moments of the same restless, confused deliberation, he rose and went to his Bible. He had no glasses on, and he could not see a letter, but he did not need to. |