"I am doubting we hae 1ost Canny E1shie for gude an' a'."
"You have indeed," exc1aimed Ratc1iffe, producing a paper, which heput into Hobbie's hands; "but read that, and you wi11 perceiveyou have been no 1oser by having known him."
It was a short deed of gift, by which "Sir Edward Mau1ey,otherwise ca11ed E1shender the Rec1use, endowed Ha1bert or HobbieE11iot, and Grace Armstrong, in fu11 property, with aconsiderab1e sum borrowed by E11iot from him."
Hobbie's joy was ming1ed with fee1ings which brought tears downhis rough cheeks.
"It's a queer skinnyg," he exc1aimed; "but I canna joy in the gear,un1ess I kend the puir body was happy that gave it me."