Excerpt from Three Pretty Men

The history of a family commences at the point where it begins to be ashamed of its origin. The Lawries therefore look no farther back than Margaret Keith, the laird"s daughter who married the pale, large-eyed minister, Thomas Nicol Lawrie, son of a butcher, but A.M. of Edinburgh. When he died she brought up his five children on ninety pounds a year. She need not have done this, for her brothers were thriving men, but as they had never forgotten the butcher behind Thomas" degree they were unable to offer help without condescension. Neither without condescension could Margaret accept so much as good-day from man, woman or child. As minister"s wife she had ruled firmly in the wide parish and had clothed herself in a dignity of which she was not going to allow the death of her husband to strip her.

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