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If you are fagged, go to sea! If you are used up, seedy, washed-out, miserable, go to sea! Another slice of that turbot, please. Thanks." "Mind your cup, sir," said the skipper, a few minutes after, in a warning voice; "with a breeze like this it's apt to pitch into your lap. She lays over a good deal because I've got a press of sail on her this morning." "More than usual?" asked Binning. "Yes.
Here was Mother Binning's cot, and here he dismounted, fastening the horse to the ash-tree. Mother Binning was outdoors, gathering herbs in her apron. She straightened herself as he stepped toward her. "Eh, laird of Glenfernie, ye gave me a start! I thought ye came out of the ground by the ash-tree!... Wound is healed, and life runs on to another springtime?"
She put down the herbs, then brought a pan of water and set it down upon the door-step, and herself beside it. "It helps onything that's still and clear! Wait till the ripple's gane, and then dinna speak to me. But gin I see onything, it will na be sae great a thing as a soul's desire." She sat still and he stood still, leaning against the side of her house. Mother Binning sat with fixed gaze.
The drawbridge was lowered, and the portcullis raised to admit the forage, when, at the moment that the wagon stood midway beneath the arch, at a signal from the farmer, the driver with his axe cut asunder the yoke, the horses started forward, and Binning, with a loud cry, "Call all! call all!" drew the sword hidden under his carter's frock, and killed the porter.
Mr Carey's brother, and Mr Fielding Hall were also at dinner, and my bachelor host A. Binning, so between these people and G.'s host and hostess, Mr and Mrs E., information about Burmah and its dependencies, its social, commercial, or political prospects was available at first hand and to any extent. Author of "The Burman, his Life and Notions a delightful description of Burmah, Shway Yoe."
JOHNSON. 'I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country. On Wednesday, April 29, I dined with him at Mr. Allan Ramsay's, where were Lord Binning, Dr.
"The next morn we heard Jock Binning told us that Mr. Ian had nearly drowned." "Almost ten years ago. Once twice thrice in ten years. How idly were they spent, those years!" "Oh," cried Elspeth, "they say that you have been to world's end and have gotten great learning!" "One comes home from all that to find world's end and great learning." Elspeth leaned from him, back against the thorn-tree.
O'Malley, Grace Binning, a small soft-voiced girl, Rhoda Tompkins, and Rose Weyland a very golden-haired, dark-eyebrowed lady, who had been in some far back period, so Fanny contrived to whisper, a flame of Brown's. Of the men, Joan liked Mr. Strachan best; he was an ugly man with very pleasant eyes and a rare smile that lit up the whole of his face.
English Strickland laughed and said good-by to Mother Binning and went. The ash-tree, the hazels that fringed the water, a point of mossy rock, hid the cot. The drone of the wheel no longer reached his ears. It was as though all that had sunk into the earth. Here was only the deep, the green, and lonely glen. He found a pool that invited, cast, and awaited the speckled victim.
It was mid-March, mid-Lent which last fact she made an excuse after taking ecclesiastical opinion on the subject, namely, that of Herbert Binning, the Anglican chaplain for issuing invitations to a Cinderella dance. Damaris Verity, it appeared, had never really, properly and ceremoniously "come out" a neglect which Henrietta protested should be repaired.
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