Seven hunder pound a year for doing
naething!"
Miss Jacky was afraid, unless they got some person of sense (which would
not be an easy matter) to take the management of it, it would perhaps be
found little enough in the long-run.
Miss Grlzzy declared it was a very handsome income, nobody could dispute
that; at the same time, everybody must allow that the money could not
have been better bestowed.
Miss Nicky observed "there was a great deal of good eating and drinking
in seven hundred a year, if people knew how to manage it."
All was bustle and preparation throughout Glenfern Castle, and the young
ladies' good-natured activity and muscular powers were again in
requisition to collect the wardrobe, and pack the trunks, imperial,
etc., of their noble sister.
Glenfern remarked "that fules war fond o' flitting, for they seemed glad
to leave the good quarters they were in."
Miss Grizzy declared there was a great excuse for their being glad, poor
things! young people were always so fond of a change; at the same time,
nobody could deny but that it would have been quite natural for them to
feel sorry too.
Miss Jacky was astonished how any person's mind could be so callous as
to think of leaving Glenfern without emotion.
Miss Nicky wondered what was to become of the christening cake she
had ordered from Perth; it might be as old as the hills before there
would be another child born amongst them.
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