[St. Ronan’s Well by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookSt. Ronan’s Well CHAPTER XI 5/9
If this kind help of yours does not fetch me through, I am determined I will cut the whole concern.
It is but standing a laugh or two, and hearing a gay fellow say, D---- me, Jack, are you turned clodhopper at last ?--that is the worst.
Dogs, horses, and all, shall go to the hammer; we will keep nothing but your pony, and I will trust to a pair of excellent legs.
There is enough left of the old acres to keep us in the way you like best, and that I will learn to like.
I will work in the garden, and work in the forest, mark my own trees, and cut them myself, keep my own accounts, and send Saunders Meiklewham to the devil." "That last is the best resolution of all, John," said Clara; "and if such a day should come round, I should be the happiest of living creatures--I should not have a grief left in the world--if I had, you should never see or hear of it--it should lie here," she said, pressing her hand on her bosom, "buried as deep as a funereal urn in a cold sepulchre.
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