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About the laird and me." "You couldn't love him? They say he is a fine man." "No, I couldn't love him. I like him. He understands. No one is to blame." "But if it is not that, what is it what is it, Elspeth?" "It's naught naught naught, I tell you!" "It's a strange naught that makes you like a dark lady in a ballad-book!" Elspeth laughed again. "Didn't I say that you were fanciful?
'Tain't much good now, is it? Dick's crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about all." "It'll do to kiss the book on still, won't it?" growled Dick, who was evidently uneasy at the curse he had brought upon himself. "A Bible with a bit cut out!" returned Silver, derisively. "Not it. It don't bind no more'n a ballad-book." "Don't it, though?" cried Dick, with a sort of joy.
And now, shipmates, this black spot? 'Tain't much good now, is it? Dick's crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about all." "It'll do to kiss the book on still, won't it?" growled Dick, who was evidently uneasy at the curse he had brought upon himself. "A Bible with a bit cut out!" returned Silver derisively. "Not it. It don't bind no more'n a ballad-book."
"How kind you are! But do you really wish that I should marry old Sylvester's girl?" "No, I can not say, Firm, that I wish it at all; unless your heart is set on it " "Don't you know, then, where my heart is set?" he asked me, in a deep voice, coming nearer, and taking the ballad-book from my hands. "Why will you feign not to know, Erema, who is the only one I can ever think of twice?
'Tain't much good now, is it? Dick's crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about all." "It'll do to kiss the book on still, won't it?" growled Dick, who was evidently uneasy at the curse he had brought upon himself. "A Bible with a bit cut out!" returned Silver derisively. "Not it. It don't bind no more'n a ballad-book." "Don't it, though?" cried Dick with a sort of joy.
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