Quote of the Day (17th of October)

So passed the first four weeks, and then came the fateful night of the seventeenth of October, and with it the strange woman. Family worship at the manse was over and Gavin was talking to his mother, who never crossed the threshold save to go to church (though her activity at home was among the marvels Jean sometimes slipped down to the Tenements to announce), when Wearyworld the policeman came to the door "with Rob Dow’s compliments, and if you’re no wi’ me by ten o’clock I’m to break out again." Gavin knew what this meant, and at once set off for Rob’s.

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