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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."
"'Why, what be that thou hast brought, Sandy lad? asked my awd aunt, as she came to the door to meet me. "'Why, it be a bairn, aunt, that I found on the moor, poor thing, said I. "'A bairn! quoth she 'I hope thou be na the faither o't, Sandy?
'You have stripped the thatch from seven cottages; see that the roof-tree of your own house stand the surer! 'Restore, he cried, 'restore my bairn! bring me back my son, and all shall be forgot and forgiven! As he uttered these words in a sort of frenzy, his eye caught a glimmering of light in one of the dismantled cottages; it was that in which Meg Merrilies formerly resided.
Her mother woke with a loud wail. "My bairn! My bairn!" snatching him to her arms. "This is none other than your Dutchman's doings, girl. Have him to the dungeon! Where are the stocks? Oh, my pretty boy! He breathed, he is living. Give me the wine!"
"John Grange is as dead as a door-nail, and owd Jemmy Ellis knows it too; but he's scarred of his bairn hearing, and don't want the missus up at the house to think on it." "But we don't know that he is dead," said old Hannah. "Not for sewer," growled old Tummus, beginning to take off his heavy boots; "and we arn't sewer of a many things.
"When the bairn is grown, and can rin his lane, Staneholme," Nelly informed him in her new-found freedom of speech, "I will send him for a summer to Staneholme; I'll be lonesome without him, but Michael Armstrong will teach him to ride, and he'll stand by Lady Staneholme's knee." Staneholme expressed no gratitude for the offer, he was fastening the buckle of his beaver.
But, after a', it's no always their fault. When landlords wull not let their property to the families that have weans, it's a hard thing to think about. And it's that sort of thing makes folk turn into hating the way the world is organized and conducted. No man ought to have the richt to deny a hame to a man and his wife because they've a bairn to care for.
"Ye know that man?" she asked, in an imperious whisper. "Mr. Van Tromp?" said Dick. "Yes; I know him." "Well, and what brings ye here?" she said. "I couldn't save the mother her that's dead but the bairn!" She had a note in her voice that filled poor Dick with consternation. "Man," she went on, "what is it now? Is it money?" "My dear lady," said Dick, "I think you misinterpret my position.
I will sit up wi' him, as I've done many a time when he was a bairn." It thus came to pass that Elspie nursed her brother by day, and Old Peg sat up with him at night.
Wondering and anxious, but not very hopeful as to what might come of it, he waited close by; and when now he saw Lizzy dart from the house in wild perturbation, he ran from the cover of the surrounding trees into the open drive to meet her. "Ma'colm!" groaned the poor girl, holding out her baby, "he winna own till 't! He winna alloo 'at he kens aucht aboot me or the bairn aither!"
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