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Kester shrank from her look, and even more from her silence. 'A'm come to ax pardon, said he, after a little pause. She was still silent. 'A'm noane above axing pardon, though a'm fifty and more, and thee's but a silly wench, as a've nursed i' my arms. A'll say before thy mother as a ought niver to ha' used them words, and as how a'm sorry for 't.
John was a highly-intelligent lad, spoke Welsh and English fluently, could read, as he told me, both languages, and had some acquaintance with the writings of Twm o'r Nant, as he showed by repeating the following lines of the carter poet, certainly not the worst which he ever wrote: "Twm or Nant mae cant a'm galw, Tomas Edwards yw fy enw,"
And you you prying, intermeddling scoundrel how durst you you petty, beggarly tyrant hated and despised by poor and rich was it to mock me " "Sir Thom-a-as, a'm a'm I I aach ur-ur-ur-mur-murd-murd-er-er-err-errr."
Domsie solemnly unfolded the letter, and brought down his spectacles. "Edinburgh, April 7th." Then he looked at Whinnie, and closed his mouth. "We'll tell it first to his mither." "Yer richt, Dominie. She weel deserves it. A'm thinking she's seen us by this time." So we fell into a procession, Dominie leading by two yards; and then a strange thing happened.
A wish t' gang, and thee, and Hobbs and them mad folk up yonder, were a' down i' hell, a do. 'Coom, lad, said Daniel, noways offended at his companion's wish on his behalf. 'A'm noane flush mysel', but here's half-a-crown and tuppence; it's a' a've getten wi' me, but it'll keep thee and t' beast i' food and shelter to-neet, and get thee a glass o' comfort, too.
"Eh, it's deep the nicht, an' hard on us baith, but there's a puir wumman micht dee if we didna warstle through; ... that's it; ye ken fine what a'm sayin'. "We 'ill hae tae leave the road here, an' tak tae the muir. Sandie 'ill no can leave the wife alane tae meet us; ... feel for yersel', lass, and keep oot o' the holes. "Yon's the hoose black in the snaw.
They're baith dour chiels, and haena muckle tae say, but Tammas hes a graund hert, and there's waur fouk in the Glen than Saunders. "A'm gettin' drowsy, an' a'll no be able tae follow ye sune, a' doot; wud ye read a bit tae me afore a' fa' ower?
Bat cast a weather-wise eye toward the sky which, cloudless, nevertheless seemed filmed with a peculiar haze that obscured the million lesser stars and distorted the greater ones, so that they showed sullen and angry and dull like the malignant pustules of a diseased skin. "A'm t'ink she gon' for bus' loose pret' queek." "Another thunder storm and a deluge of rain?" asked Alice.
A'm waounded A'm a goner! A'm shot! 'Elp! Murder! Eh! Oh!" bellowed a lusty voice and it was not James Moore's. The little man, the cause of the uproar, lay quite still upon the ground, with another figure standing over him.
Nether am a' popilar with the gentry and magistrates of the kountry, because they despise me, and say that a'm this, that and tother; that a'm mean and tyrannical; that a' changed my name from pride, and that a'm overbearing and ignorant. Now this last charge of ignorance brings me to Klaim No.
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