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055 - The Farewell · Whats Mines Mine

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  Speaker 1: Volume three, chapter twenty one of What's Mine's Mine by
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  Speaker 1: George mac donald. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: The farewell. A month passed and the flag of their
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  Speaker 1: exile was seen flying in the bay. The same hour,
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  Speaker 1: the chief's horses were put to the carts were loaded,
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  Speaker 1: their last things gathered. Few farewells had to be made
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  Speaker 1: for the whole clan, except two that had gone to
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  Speaker 1: the bad turned out at the minute. Appointed, the Chief
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  Speaker 1: arranged them in marching column. Foremost went the pipes. The Chief,
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  Speaker 1: his wife and his mother came next, Hector of the stags,
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  Speaker 1: carrying the double barreled rifle the Chief had given him
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  Speaker 1: rob of the Angels, and Donald Schumacher followed. Then came
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  Speaker 1: the women and children, next the carts, with a few
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  Speaker 1: who could not walk on the top of the baggage.
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  Speaker 1: The men brought up the rear. Four or five favorite
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  Speaker 1: dogs were the skirmishers of the column. The road to
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  Speaker 1: the bay led them past the gate of the new house.
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  Speaker 1: The chief called a halt and went with his wife
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  Speaker 1: to seek a last interview. Mister Peregrin Palmer kept his room,
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  Speaker 1: but Missus Palmer bade her daughter a loving farewell, more
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  Speaker 1: relieved than she cared to show that the cause of
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  Speaker 1: so much discomfort was going so far away. The children wept.
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  Speaker 1: Christina bade her sister good bye with a hopeless, almost
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  Speaker 1: envious look. Mercy, who did not love him, would see Ian.
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  Speaker 1: She who would give her soul for him, was never
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  Speaker 1: to look on him again in this world. Kissing Mercy
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  Speaker 1: once more, she choked down a sob and whispered, give
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  Speaker 1: my love, no my heart to Yan, and tell him
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  Speaker 1: I am trying. They all walked together to the gate,
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  Speaker 1: and there the chief's mother took her leave of the
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  Speaker 1: ladies of the new house. The pipe struck up, the
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  Speaker 1: column moved on. When they came to the corner which
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  Speaker 1: would hide from them their native strath the march changed
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  Speaker 1: to a lament, and with the opening wail, all stopped
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  Speaker 1: and turned for a farewell. Look, men and women, the
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  Speaker 1: chief alone excepted, burst into weeping, and the sound of
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  Speaker 1: their lamentation went wandering through the hills with an adieu
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  Speaker 1: to every loved spot. And this was what the pipes said,
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  Speaker 1: We shall never see you more, never more, never more,
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  Speaker 1: till the sea be dry and the world be bare,
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  Speaker 1: and the dews have ceased to fall, and the rivers
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  Speaker 1: have ceased to run. We shall never see you more,
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  Speaker 1: never more, never more. They stood and gazed, and the
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  Speaker 1: pipes went on lamenting, and the women went on weeping.
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  Speaker 1: This is heathenish, said Alister to himself, and stopped the piper.
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  Speaker 1: My friends, he cried in Gaelic. Of course, look at me.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes are dry. Where Jesus, the Son of God
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  Speaker 1: is there is my home. He is here, and he
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  Speaker 1: is over the sea, and my home is everywhere. I
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  Speaker 1: have lost my land and my country. But I take
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  Speaker 1: with me my people, and make no moan over my exile.
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  Speaker 1: Hearts are more than hills. Farewell Strathrud, of my childhood
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  Speaker 1: place of my dreams. I shall visit you again in
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  Speaker 1: my sleep, and again I shall see you in happier times.
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  Speaker 1: Please God. With my friends around me, he took off
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  Speaker 1: his bonnet. All the men too, uncovered for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: then turned to follow their chief. The pipes struck up
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  Speaker 1: Macrimon's lament till encrode Adonkaide turned the kind duncan. Not
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  Speaker 1: one looked behind him again till they reached the shore.
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  Speaker 1: There out in the bay, the biggest ship any of
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  Speaker 1: the clan had ever seen, was waiting to receive them.
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  Speaker 1: When mister Peregrine Palmer saw that the land might in
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  Speaker 1: truth be for sale, he would gladly have bought it,
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  Speaker 1: but found to his chagrin that he was too late.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like the fellow, he said, to mock him.
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  Speaker 1: With a chance of buying it, he took care to
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  Speaker 1: come himself and not send a man. He could have
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  Speaker 1: believed the clam throve. In the clearings of the pine forests,
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  Speaker 1: the hill men stared at their harvests as if they
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  Speaker 1: saw them growing. Their many children were strong and healthy,
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  Speaker 1: and called Scotland their home. In an outlying and barren
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  Speaker 1: part of the chief's land, they came upon rock oil.
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  Speaker 1: It was so plentiful that as soon as carriage became possible,
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  Speaker 1: the chief and his people began to grow rich. News
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  Speaker 1: came to them that mister Peregrine Palmer was in difficulties
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  Speaker 1: and desirous of parting with his highland estate. The chief
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  Speaker 1: was now able to buy it ten times over. He
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  Speaker 1: gave his agent in London directions to secure it for
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  Speaker 1: him with any other land conterminous that might come into
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  Speaker 1: the market, But he would not at once return to
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  Speaker 1: occupy it, for his mother dreaded the sea and thought
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  Speaker 1: to start soon for another home. Also, he would rather
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  Speaker 1: have his boys grow where they were, and as men
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  Speaker 1: face the temptations beyond, where could they find such teaching
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  Speaker 1: as that of their uncle Ian. Both father and uncle
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  Speaker 1: would have them alive before encountering what the world calls life.
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  Speaker 1: But the macrud yet dreams of the time when those
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  Speaker 1: of the clan then left in the world, accompanied he
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  Speaker 1: hopes by some of those that went out before them,
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  Speaker 1: shall go back to repeople the old waste places, and
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  Speaker 1: from a wilderness of white sheep and red deer, make
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  Speaker 1: the mountain land a nursery of honest, unambitious, brave men
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  Speaker 1: and strong hearted women, loving God and their neighbor. Where
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  Speaker 1: no man will think of himself at day brother's cost,
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  Speaker 1: no man grow rich by his neighbor's ruin, No man
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  Speaker 1: lay field to field to treasure up for himself wrath
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  Speaker 1: against the day of wrath. The end end of Volume three,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one, end of What's Mine's Mine by George
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  Speaker 1: mac donald. Recording by Hannah Mary Come be Still dot
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