Chapter

 1 I   |         not be a hoax. For many years he had known Simon Ford,
 2 I   |     James Starr, had for twenty years, been the manager, or, as
 3 I   |          on whom his fifty-five years weighed no more heavily
 4 I   |   increased during the last few years, that certain beds had been
 5 I   |      the pits of Aberfoyle.~Ten years before, the last butty had
 6 I   |      they had lived for so many years. The engineer, James Starr,
 7 I   |        which he had for so many years superintended the powerful
 8 I   |    Dochart pit, then fifty-five years of age, and other managers
 9 I   |        mines, which for so many years have united us in a common
10 I   |   extracted a hundred and fifty years ago from the bearings of
11 I   |      stood a boy, about fifteen years of age, who for some years
12 I   |      years of age, who for some years already had been employed
13 I   |        this had taken place ten years ago; but, notwithstanding
14 I   |        of him. It was after ten years of separation that he got
15 II  |       which include millions of years, these earths hardened in
16 II  |     directed the works. For ten years these mines had been abandoned.
17 II  |        my lad. Of course in ten years you have become a man!”~“
18 III |        Though, during the first years of his youth, the pick was
19 III |      enough to last millions of years!”~“No doubt there would,
20 III |    always singing. That was ten years ago. It was you, no doubt?”~“
21 IV  |       lived with his family ten years, in a subterranean dwelling,
22 IV  |        the weight of sixty-five years well. Tall, robust, well-built,
23 IV  |       to his trade. During long years he zealously performed his
24 IV  |       himself, during those ten years he had not been ten times
25 IV  |         whisky, five and twenty years old—just Harry’s age. The
26 V   |       imps and fairies. For ten years, without missing a single
27 VI  |    spite of your five-and-fifty years, to have seen that. But
28 VI  |      have seen that. But I, ten years older, often saw the last ‘
29 VII |      the mine, deserted for ten years, must be set up anew. Never
30 VII |       new working last for many years, and pray Heaven I shall
31 VII |         to the old overman. Ten years’ sojourn in the deserted
32 VII |     James Starr during the last years of the working stopped just
33 VIII|    believe you, sir! A thousand years and more will pass before
34 VIII|     dust! Ah, Mr. Starr! twenty years ago this seam would have
35 X   |       CHAPTER X COAL TOWN~THREE years after the events which have
36 X   | prospered well, having in three years obtained a certain com-petency
37 XI  |         harm for the last three years, either to you, Harry, or
38 XII |       age of fifteen or sixteen years.~She gazed at them with
39 XII |      continued Madge, “how many years old?”~“Years?” replied Nell.
40 XII |           how many years old?”~“Years?” replied Nell. She seemed
41 XII |        hours, days, months, and years were unknown to her.~Her
42 XII |         although that was three years ago, and nothing new had
43 XII |      which you spent your early years, and whence we drew you
44 XVI |          in the course of three years have betrayed their existence
45 XVII|        Nell. During the fifteen years, up to the time when she
46 XVII|       must be fifteen or twenty years older than I am. A wild,~
47 XVII|      faith, I believed him dead years ago.”~“But,” resumed James
48 XVII|       have lived during fifteen years in the remote and most solitary
49 XVII|   recollect that in my earliest years I was the nursling of a
50 XIX |     golden wedding, after fifty years of marriage with good old