Davie, he had said, when I am dead, take this to the house of Shaws, near Cramond.

“戴维，”他曾说，“我去世以后，拿着这封信去克莱蒙德附近的肖家大院。

By midday on the second day I could see the smoking chimneys of Edinburgh in front of me, and soon I arrived in Cramond.

到第二天中午时我能看见前面爱丁堡冒烟的烟囱，很快我就到了克莱蒙德。

Your father was always a kind, loving brother, so when the girl decided to marry him, Alexander left Cramond and let Ebenezer have the house and farmland.

你父亲一直是一个友善的、讨人喜欢的兄弟，所以那个女孩决定嫁给他时，他便离开了克莱蒙德并把房子和农田留给了埃比尼泽。

So I decided to walk to Cramond, hoping that perhaps this Mr Balfour, in his fine big house, would receive me kindly, and help me to become a rich man one day.

于是我决定走到克莱蒙德去，盼着有一天这个鲍尔弗先生能在他的豪华的大房子里友好地接待我并帮我变成富人。