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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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We
heard
the
company
laughing
and
talking
long
after
we
were
in
bed;
indeed
I
believe
they
never
work
till
they
are
tired.[94]
The
children
could
not
speak
a
word
of
English:
they
were
very
shy
at
first;
but
after
I
had
caressed
the
eldest,
and
given
her
a
red
leather
purse,
with
which
she
was
delighted,
she
took
hold
of
my
hand
and
hung
about
me,
changing
her
side-long
looks
for
pretty
smiles.
Her
mother
lamented
they
were
so
far
from
school,
they
should
be
obliged
to
send
the
children
down
into
the
Lowlands
to
be
taught
reading
and
English.
Callander,
the
nearest
town,
was
twenty
miles
from
them,
and
it
was
only
a
small
place:
they
had
their
groceries
from
Glasgow.
She
said
that
at
Callander
was
their
nearest
church,
but
sometimes
"got
a
preaching
at
the
Garrison."
In
explaining
herself
she
informed
us
that
the
large
building
which
had
puzzled
us
in
the
morning
had
been
built
by
Government,
at
the
request
of
one
of
the
Dukes
of
Montrose,
for
the
defence
of
his
domains
against
the
attacks
of
Rob
Roy.
I
will
not
answer
for
the
truth
of
this;
perhaps
it
might
have
been
built
for
this
purpose,
and
as
a
check
on
the
Highlands
in
general;
certain
it
is,
however,
that
it
was
a
garrison;
soldiers
used
to
be
constantly
stationed
there,
and
have
only
been
withdrawn
within
the
last
thirteen
or
fourteen
years.
Mrs.
Macfarlane
attended
me
to
my
room;
she
said
she
hoped
I
should
be
able
to
sleep
upon
blankets,
and
said
they
were
"fresh
from
the
fauld."
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