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174 RAMBLES NORTHWARD. V
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We Will Take At Random Some Fifty People...
the libert country y and , license the recentl , then inviting United " all States the proud of America , restless . Here spirits b of y
, y means and , dying of -, trade left , a Alexander sum of money Milne for the graduall erection y amassed and endowment a fortune of ,
a free school in his native town of Fochabers . One among numberto less the instances " Highlander of the " love whether of fatherland of Scotland , which or Switzerland ding's pre- . eminently
, of Next paying comes 1 a visit Elgin to , where the fine we must ruins not of fail the to venerable stop for the cathedral purpose ,
founded in 1224 , and burnt to the ground some hundred and sixty years after by that dreaded robber-chieftain , the Wolfe of Badenoch ;
an escapade for which our lawless friend found himself obliged to purchase absolution hy the bestowal of certain large sums of
money , and grants of annual rents , whereby the rebuilding of the cathedralunder pious Bishop Barwas greatlfacilitated . But
, , y an interest of another kind , and of more modern date , lingers around this venerable pile ; a romance of real lifewhich we will
relate as we heard it upon the spot . , In the year 1745 , Marjory Gilzean , the young and handsome
daughter of a well-to-do couple . in the neighbouring parish of Drainey , married , against the consent of her parentsone Andrew
Anderson , of Lhanbryde , a soldier quartered with , his regiment at the town of Elgin . The regiment being soon after ordered
on foreign service , Marjory accompanied her husband abroad , to return in three years a crazed , heart-broken woman , shattered
in body and mind , bearing in her arms an infant , with whom she took up her abode amid the ruins of Elin Cathedralfixing
on the ancient lavatory as a home for herself g and child . , What . became of her soldier husband , or how it was that the poor
creature ' s family failed to receive her back in her distress , tradition fails to relate , though there are yet living those to whom poor
old Marjory Gilzean is a remembrance of childish days . In the lavatory , making * use of the Piscini _* as a cradledid Marjory
amid the heats of summer and the colds of winter , but ill , protected from _tlie inclemency of either , rear her infant , son to
boyhood , subsisting , it is said , chiefly on contributions of food and clothes from sympathising * neighbours , who interested themselves
later to place the poor lad at school , where , as a pauper scholar , in exchange for cleaning the school-room and performing other
menial offices , lie contrived to pick up a good education . Industrious and ambitious , the lad soon left his rough liome and
indigent mother to seek his fortunes in the world ; and though from Marjory that , poor day to craze _tlie d day Marj of ory her , live death d for she many - neither a long saw year nor heard after ,
of her son again . Living sometimes in lier old haunt , at others taking up her temporary abode with some neighbour who pitied
_occasions * A stone . basin , used by the priests for washing 1 their hands on ceremonial
174 Rambles Northward. V
174 RAMBLES NORTHWARD . V
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/30/
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