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Ailie Arthur Hallam Arthur Henry Hallam asked AUTHOR OF RAB beautiful better Braehead Brains called child Corstorphine Hill Craigellachie creature Dalveen dark dear death doctor door EDINBURGH Edition EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS Elvanfoot Enterkin Extracted from Hora face father Fcap Foolscap genius gentle GEORGE HARVEY give Glen grave Hallam hand happy head heart Henry Vaughan Hill Hora Subsecivæ Hora Subsecive HORÆ horse Howgate Isabella James Jeems Jess JOHN BROWN JOHN CAIRNS keen Keith Kirkcaldy laughter Leadhills Logan-lea look Maidie Marjorie Fleming master Mennock Minchmoor mind mother mouth nature never night NOEL PATON Port-Royal Logic Price 6d Rab's round Scott sense Sewed shepherd sketches story Street sweet tail teeth tell thing thought Toby Tom Jones turn walked wild woman words young
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Page 6 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Page 12 - And, as a faggot sparkles on the hearth, Not less if unattended and alone Than when both young and old sit gathered round And take delight in its activity; Even so this happy Creature of herself Is all-sufficient; solitude to her Is blithe society, who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs.
Page 12 - I saw almost every week, on the Wednesday; and we had much pleasant intimacy. I found the way to his heart by frequent scratching of his huge head, and an occasional bone. When I did not notice him he would plant himself straight before me, and stand wagging that bud of a tail, and looking up, with his head a little to the one side. His master I occasionally saw; he used to call me "Maister John," but was laconic as any Spartan.
Page 15 - I have said, he was brindled, and grey like Rubislaw granite ; his hair short, hard, and close, like a lion's ; his body thickset, like a little bull — a sort of compressed Hercules of a dog. He must have been ninety pounds...
Page 31 - ... me by the legs. I was laith to mak' awa wi' the auld dowg, his like wasna atween this and Thornhill, — but, 'deed, sir, I could do naething else.
Page 20 - James ; then turning to the surgeon and the students, she courtesies, — and in a low, clear voice, begs their pardon if she has behaved ill. The students — all of us — wept like children ; the surgeon happed her up carefully, — and, resting on James and me, Ailie went to her room, Rab following. We put her to bed. James took off his heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt, and put them carefully under the table saying, " Maister John, I'm for nane o* yer strynge nurse bodies...
Page 18 - Don't think them heartless; they are neither better nor worse than you or I; they get over their professional horrors, and into their proper work — and in them pity — as an emotion, ending in itself or at best in tears and a longdrawn breath, lessens, while pity as a motive, is quickened, and gains power and purpose. It is well for poor human nature that it is so.
Page 23 - Ailie got worse ; began to wander in her mind, gently ; was more demonstrative in her ways to James, rapid in her questions, and sharp at times. He was vexed, and said, 'She was never that way afore, no, never.
Page 11 - I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest, Lord of thy house and hospitality; And Grief, uneasy lover ! never rest But when she sate within the touch of thee.
Page 20 - ... laid herself on the table, as her friend the surgeon told her ; arranged herself, gave a rapid look at James, shut her eyes, rested herself on me, and took my hand. The operation was at once begun ; it was necessarily slow ; and chloroform — one of God's best gifts to his suffering children — was then unknown. The surgeon did his work. The pale face showed its pain, but was still and silent. Rab's soul was working within him ; he saw that something strange was going on, — blood flowing...