This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of the receipt advertisement Mr. Farquhar had sent to that journal. Rab opened the packet and read the announcement, which was simple enough: --"Mr. Farquhar, of, Scotland, has received the 600 forwarded to the Shire Bank." But another advertisement printed below this caught Rab's eye, and he went on reading aloud, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of the receipt advertisement Mr. Farquhar had sent to that journal. Rab opened the packet and read the announcement, which was simple enough: --"Mr. Farquhar, of, Scotland, has received the 600 forwarded to the Shire Bank." But another advertisement printed below this caught Rab's eye, and he went on reading aloud, regardless of Barby's "Whisht! that will keep" --"Don't think ye've undone your sin by paying back the money. It's no your credit, whoever ye are, that you didn't ruin an honest man's house. You're beholden to each one that rose up and did his own part, or you might have had the blude o' a broken heart an' of spoiled lives to carry to your grave. You put black, bitter feelings into gude kindly folk. I doubt you are no better now than you were before, for you've been a thief, and you're no honest till you ca' your deeds by their richt names. Own to God the sin you did commit, and thank Him for saving you from waur than you reckoned on. For an evil tree cannot bring forth gude fruit, and, gin a sin doesna turn a curse to a' whom it touches, it's because it's turned aside by something not o' itsel', but o' the grace an' gift o' God. I'm sorry for you an' your money-making, puir creatur'." "Now, I'm quite sure that's your doing, Barby," said Rab. "What made you go and send that long paragraph without saying a word to anybody?" "Because I thought ane soul is worth as much as anither," returned Barby dryly, though her face was a little flushed, "an' a puir word spoken straight into a man's sel' may be worth mair than a gran' sermon shot up i' the air, like." "Well," said Mr. Fraser, in his curt, decided way, --for business was his highest element, and the more earnest h...
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