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, in removing him to her room; where, as she had now got the window to open, he would at once have air and quiet. To this proposition a violent opposition was made by all the good people assembled; in which Mrs MacClarty loudly joined, declaring "she wou'd never see her gudeman turned out o' his ain gude warm bed into a cauld room. She cou'dna bear the thoughts o' ony thing sae cruel."

"Is it not more cruel," said Mrs Mason, "to let him remain here, to be stifled to death by the bad air, which now surrounds him, and which no one can breathe in safety? By removing him, he has at least a chance of recovery: here he can have none."

"If its the wull o' God that he's to dee," said Peter Macglashon, who was the oracle of the parish, "its a' ane whar ye tak him; ye canna hinder the wull o' God."

"It is not only the will of God, but the command of God, that we should use the means," said Mrs Mason. "We should