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Excerpt from The Laird O Cockpen 'Comfort - comfort scorned of devils, This is truth, the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow Is remembering happier things!" "Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.' "Jean, have ye taken the bit lassie up her cup o'milk?" "Deed no, mem, it hae just sleepit my memory, but I'll e'en go wi' it at once. I doubt if the bairn's wakin' though, she was ower tired the nicht." The voices roused me and I sprang up from bed and went over to the window. It looked out on a small yard, and there stood Jean the old Scotch servant whose voice I had heard. She was talking to Grannie, who was in the kitchen. I threw open the window and let the sweet June air into the quaint little room which I had only seen as yet by candlelight. The noise of the opening window attracted Jean's attention. She looked up and saw me. A look of alarm crossed her face - wrinkled and brown as a crab-apple. "Are ye daft, lassie, to be standing there wi' no covering save yon bit linen stuff? Back to bed wi' ye this minnit. We've no wish to hae ye sick on our hands, and a nice character ye brought too. Aye, but the mistress is gangin' to ye the noo, and siccan a scolding as she can give! But I'm just thinking ye'll be the better o' it." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.