. Perfervid, the career of Ninian Jamieson. and left the house un-observed. PART II THE PILGRIMAGE OF STRONGSOULAND SAUNDERS ELSHANDER. 2 as O aX a X CHAPTER I THE GREAT MEN In a back room in a quiet street in Edinburgh ona December night, some ten or twelve years afterNinians campaign, five men sat round a tablesmoking churchwarden pipes and drinking whisky-toddy. It was an old-fashioned room with an old-fashioned fireplace ; and the fire was old-fashionedtoo, for it was wood that the Great Men burned.The)- had a contract with a turner, and got fromhim all his waste birch. What a fire it make
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. Perfervid, the career of Ninian Jamieson. and left the house un-observed. PART II THE PILGRIMAGE OF STRONGSOULAND SAUNDERS ELSHANDER. 2 as O aX a X CHAPTER I THE GREAT MEN In a back room in a quiet street in Edinburgh ona December night, some ten or twelve years afterNinians campaign, five men sat round a tablesmoking churchwarden pipes and drinking whisky-toddy. It was an old-fashioned room with an old-fashioned fireplace ; and the fire was old-fashionedtoo, for it was wood that the Great Men burned.The)- had a contract with a turner, and got fromhim all his waste birch. What a fire it makes—clear, red, and strong—and the ash like powderysnow ! Then the smell of its burning, so delicateand pungent! Frankincense ! Cosmo Mortimerburst out once. Birch-wood as far surpasses incenseas a Scotch lassie surpasses the world. Gentlemen, there is an aroma - —passing his hand across the fire, and wafting the smoke to the nostrils of the GreatMen— a sweet homely smell of the mountain and 136 PERFERVID the flood in the smoke of birch—a fleeting memoryof everything high and noble, and beautiful and true, in the life of the