Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Subjects: Spouses of clergy Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Christian Life / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XVII. The next step in Isabel's solitary new life was the visit of Miss Catherine, whose entrance Jean permitted a few days earlier than decorum properly allowed. "After a', she's a connexion, and the poor bairn's best support," she said, as she went, wiping her hands on her apron, to open the door to the visitor. "Oh, ay, Miss Catherine! come your ways ben; she'll be glad of a kind word. She's no suffered that much in her health -- God be thankit! But whiles my heart breaks to see her in that weary parlour her lane, and nothing to wile her from her ain thoughts." "I had not the courage to come sooner," said Miss Catherine. "But, Jean, we must not leave her to her own thoughts." "Whiles I wish she was but a common lass," said Jean, "that had to work, sair heart or glad. Work's aye a comfort -- but sitting pingling wi' a seam! The minister sent some nonsense books; but I hadna the heart to take them to her. A chapter now and then, or maybe a page o' a good book -- that's a' a feeling person can be expected to be fit for. I wonder at the minister. Was I to take in fuil stories and novells and sic I ike to my poor lamb?" "They might have wiled her from her thoughts, as you say," said Miss Catherine. "And now I'll go in. Wae's me! I've looked on two Margaret Diarmids dead in this house, and me older than the eldest of them, and living to this day." "It's for ...
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