[A Window in Thrums by J. M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookA Window in Thrums CHAPTER XIII 6/11
She had dune't for the siller.
Ay, there's pounds' worth o' fur aboot that jacket." "They say she had siller hersel," said Tibbie Birse. "Dinna tell me," said Jess.
"I ken by her wy o' carryin' hersel 'at she never had a jacket like that afore." Eppie was not the only person in Thrums whom this marriage enraged. Stories had long been alive of Jeames's fortune, which his cousins' children were some day to divide among themselves, and as a consequence these young men and women looked on Mrs.Geogehan as a thief. "Dinna bring the wife to our hoose, Jeames," one of them told him, "for we would be fair ashamed to hae her.
We used to hae a respect for yer name, so we couldna look her i' the face." "She's mair like yer dochter than yer wife," said another. "Na," said a third, "naebody could mistak her for yer dochter.
She's ower young-like for that." "Wi' the siller you'll leave her, Jeames," Tammas Haggart told him, "she'll get a younger man for her second venture." All this was very trying to the newly-married man, who was thirsting for sympathy.
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