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'Dear me! said the mother. 'I knew him before he was weaned. The duchess suckled him herself, which shows her heart is very true; for they may say what they like, but if another's milk is in your child's veins, he seems, in a sort of way, as much her bairn as your own. 'Mother's milk makes a true born Englishman, said the father; 'and I make no doubt our young markiss will prove the same.
Don't take on, and fret about it too much: it can't be helped. And besides, you should have known better than to choose such a rush of a lass!" 'And what did the master answer? I inquired. 'I think he swore: but I didn't mind him, I was straining to see the bairn, and she began again to describe it rapturously.
"My puir bairn," Lady Staneholme began brokenly, "I've had an interview with my son, and I've learnt, late, some passages in the past; and I wonder not, but I maun lament, for I am a widow mother, Nelly, and my only son Adam who did you wrong and showed you no pity, has got his orders to serve with the soldiers in the Low Countries.
She was, in effect, glad that he loved her daughter, because now she had somebody who could laugh at this wonderful daughter! "Let me marry her soon," he said. She became doubtful. Her face contracted, as it had done when she had said, "Let her bide; she's only a bairn." "We must live in Essex," he said, to get her past the moment. She became tragic.
This impudence was too much for the captain, so he put him down with an ejaculation, "Ech! but you're a fashious bairn;" and how long he might have continued to roar we know not, but between his tears his eye suddenly caught sight of the cow, who, either intoxicated by all the fresh sweet grass she had eaten, or having risen in particularly good spirits, was indulging in a series of antics, equally ludicrous and unbecoming in such a sober creature.
An' he's been wi' me I kenna hoo lang, and he's wi' me noo. And I hae seen his face, and I'll see his face again. And I'll try sair to be a gude bairn. Eh me! It's jist wonnerfu! And God's jist....naething but God himsel'."
"You have spoiled the bairns yourself, Mother. If I ever check or scold them, you are aye sure to take their part." "Because you never know when a bairn is to blame and when its mother is to blame. I forgot to teach you that lesson."
"But when I went I found that Bessie had gane, and none knew where. I traced her to Keswick poor-house, where she had a little lad; the matron said she went away in a very weak condition when the child was three weeks old, declaring that she was going to her friends. Puir, bonnie, loving Bessie; that was the last I ever heard o' my wife and bairn."
"Here we are again, Miss Dorothy," said Martha. Then Miss Stanbury could not restrain herself, but descended the stairs, moving as she had never moved since she had first been ill. "My bairn," she said; "my dearest bairn! I thought that perhaps it might be so. Jane, another tea-cup and saucer up-stairs." What a pity that she had not ordered it before! "And get a hot cake, Jane.
"Good woman," said the magistrate to this shrewish supplicant "tell us what it is you want, and do not interrupt the court." "That's as muckle as till say, Bark, Bawtie, and be dune wi't! I tell ye," raising her termagant voice, "I want my bairn! is na that braid Scots?" "Who are you? who is your bairn?" demanded the magistrate.
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