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"I ken that, my bairn. The Lord haud a grip o' ye!" It was not often that Peter Whaup indulged in a pious ejaculation. But this was a genuine one, and may be worth recording for the sake of Annie's answer: "I'm thinkin' he hauds a grip o' us a', Mr Whaup."
"Oh, it is not for me to drive the goodman out of his own house." "Well, let me kiss the bairn afore ye go. He is not in fault anyway, poor innocent." Upon this cruel rebuff Margaret came to a resolution, which she did not confide even to Catherine. After six weeks' stay that good woman returned home.
"Porteous?" said Jeanie; "very true I forget a' that I suld maist mind. Fare ye weel, Mrs. Saddletree; and may ye never want a friend in the hour of distress!" "Will ye no stay wi' your father, Jeanie, bairn? Ye had better," said Mrs. Saddletree. "I will be wanted ower yonder," indicating the Tolbooth with her hand, "and I maun leave him now, or I will never be able to leave him.
And then she rocked back and forward, as if to make it sleep, hushing it, and wasting on it her infinite fondness. "Wae's me, doctor; I declare she's thinkin' it's that bairn." "What bairn?" "The only bairn we ever had; our wee Mysie, and she's in the Kingdom forty years and mair."
My mother afterwards told me that I must have been "a very noticin' bairn," as she observed me, when I was only a few days old, following with my little eyes any one who happened to be in the room, as if I had been thinking to my little self, "Who are you?" After a suitable time I was put under the care of a nursemaid. I remember her well Mary Peterkin a truly Scandinavian name.
My Anerew, my Anerew! I'm as happy 's a bairn. O Lord! O Lord! And she burst again into sobs, and entered paradise in radiant weeping. Her hands sank away from his head, and when her son gazed in her face he saw that she was dead. She had never looked at Robert. The two men turned towards each other. Robert put out his arms. His father laid his head on his bosom, and went on weeping.
Bridget was solemnly praising heaven, whose arm had been about them, and restored them both in the flower of their days, to Otter, and to their bairn. "We have come back for more than Otter and the bairn, Leslie. Bridget and all the men of Ayr could not have held her here, my faithful wife that needs must be my love, she has proved herself so true!"
You might have come a little quicker, that's all I've got to say. "We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, and a' saw MacLure wes roosed. "'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to Mrs. 'Opps "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me though it be only a headache."
Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words 'in the dead-thraw! as if he could not comprehend their meaning, suffered the old man to drag him towards his horse. During the ride home he only said, 'Wife and bairn baith mother and son baith, sair, sair to abide!
"Ye're come in time," said Auntie Meg, and whispered to the old woman�-"My brither Jeames's bairn." "Ay, ye're come in time, lassie," said the great-aunt kindly, and said no more. The dying man heard the words, opened his eyes, glanced once at Annie, and closed them again. "Is that ane o' the angels come?" he asked, for his wits were gone a little way before.
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