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'It is a very different thing to go against the light, as I should be doing, said Arthur, 'and what it might be for that poor bairn, whom Cod preserve. 'And wow! sir. 'Tis far different wi' you that had the best of gude learning frae the gude leddy, muttered Yusuf.
There's solemn reason why I should bide with my own flesh and blood and keep to the word I pledged my mother on her death-bed; but, as for thee, there's no tie that I know on to keep thee fro' going to America or Botany Bay this very night, if that were thy inclination. I will have no more of your threats to make me send my bairn away. If thou marry me, thou'lt help me to take charge of Willie.
Amidst howling and wailing were mixed shouts of mirth and jollity, but he could gather nothing articulate except the following words "O there's a bairn born, but there's naething to pit on 't."
But, mercy on us! and so it was no you that was the bairn after all, Master Francis, and the old laird had really no call to care about you. But that woman should be punished. Men and women have been hanged for less guilt.
But lost the bairn was in his fifth year, as your honour says, Colonel; and the news being rashly tell'd to the leddy, then great with child, cost her her life that samyn night and the Laird never throve after that day, but was just careless of everything though, when his daughter Miss Lucy grew up, she tried to keep order within doors but what could she do, poor thing so now they're out of house and hauld."
"Jeemsie will be provided for now," I said, beckoning the child to me. He came, shyly smiling, and put his hand in mine. "Yes, thank God!" was the poor mother's reply. "It's been a trouble to me to know what to do for him, and especially what'll happen to the bairn when I'm taken.
And Elizabeth did not confess that she had been really and truly crying, and was now rather ashamed and quite amazed at herself. Mrs. Wully Johnstone was quite overcome, and Auntie Jinit declared it jist garred her greet to look at the bairn, she did it jist too well.
Here in the outer wall was a broad niche, and if they bring them so little as they can squeeze them through it alive, the bairn falls into a net inside, and the state takes charge of it, but if too big, their mothers must even take them home again, with whom abiding 'tis like to be mali corvi mali ovum. Coming out of the church we met them carrying in a corpse, with the feet and face bare.
"I hae been called for, Mistress Futtrit, a' the road to Pittenloch," she said, with a sigh; "my nephew is settled for the ministry an' nae less and I maun just gae and tak' the guiding o' his sister and his hoose." "You're auld to be fashed wi' a bairn noo, Mistress Caird." "Na, na, it isna a bairn; Maggie Promoter is a braw, handsome lass, wi' mair lovers than she has fingers and toes."
It's little we can ken what God to love, or hoo to love him, withoot "thy neighbour as thyself." Towards the close of the week, he grew much feebler. Falconer scarcely left his room. He woke one midnight, and murmured as follows, with many pauses for breath and strength: 'Robert, my time's near, I'm thinkin'; for, wakin' an' sleepin', I'm a bairn again.
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