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"Wal, stranger," replied he, after a pause, "thur worth a good wheen o' dollars; but I shan't valley 'em myself. I'll leave that part o' the bizness to a third individooal my friend as stands thur; an' who's a just man, an's been some'at o' a lawyer too. He'll say what's fair atween us. Won't ye, Josh?"
"It wasna," she replied, "till Lady Glenallan had communicated this fause tale, that she suspected ye had actually made a marriage nor even then did you avow it sae as to satisfy her whether the ceremony had in verity passed atween ye or no But ye remember, O ye canna but remember weel, what passed in that awfu' meeting!" "Woman! you swore upon the gospels to the fact which you now disavow."
"But there's another explanation I like better, though you'll think it far-fetched. . . . You and me until this happened, there was never a cross word atween us, nor a cross thought?" "That's so, 'Bias." "Well, and that bein' so, if Benny hit the note for one, how could it help bein' the note for both? . . . I've had pretty rash thoughts about Benny: but put it in that way who's to blame the man?
Did ye never hear maister Craig p'int oot the differ atween believin a body and believin in a body, Francie? 'No and I dinna care. 'I wudna like ye to gang awa thinking I misdoobtit yer word, Francie! I believe onything ye tell me, as far as I think ye ken, but maybe no sae far as ye think ye ken. I believe ye, but I confess I dinna believe in ye yet.
"Them hills ain't so high," he said, "but they're high enough to shut out the winds o' winter, bein' ez they face the north an' west, an' here curves the creek atween 'em, through a gap not more'n ten feet wide. An' look how them big trees grow so close together, an' in a sort o' curve. Why, that's shorely whar Adam an' Eve spent thar winters.
The wifie I lodge wi' canna last lang, an' I would like to settle doon in some place." "So you are on your way to Mag's now?" "Ay, we'll get her in atween twal' and ane." "Oh, yes; but why do you want me to go with you?" "I want ye for a witness. If she winna let me aff, weel and guid; and if she will, it's better to hae a witness in case she should go back on her word."
Had Mrs Mellis been more of a tactician, she would have dug a few approaches ere she opened fire upon the fortress of her companion's fair hearing: but instead of that, she at once discharged the imprudent question "Was ye at hame last nicht, mem, atween the hoors o' aucht an' nine?" a shot which instantly awoke in reply the whole battery of Miss Horn's indignation.
Prayer and the utterance of a holy name are to the full as effectual as physical strength. A fisherwoman in the north-east of Scotland was once left alone in bed with her baby, when in came a little man dressed in green, and proceeded to lay hold of the child. The woman knew at once with whom she had to do, and ejaculated: "God be atween you an' me!"
"There's a score of vessels atween this and Cawsand," put in Treleaven, catching his breath like a man hit in the wind, "and half a dozen of 'em ready to weigh anchor any moment. There's naught for it but to take a boat and give chase."
The weather was uncommonly fine, the sky being perfectly clear and unclouded; and though the sun shone out brilliantly, the heat was tempered by a cool, bracing, westwardly wind. Its influence was perceptible on the spirits of every body on board the ferry-boat that transported us across the harbour. "Squire," said Mr. Slick, aint this as pretty a day as you'll see atween this and Nova Scotia?
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