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"Yes, bonny wee thing, I'll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne." He said this as he helped me to alight from the carriage, and while he afterwards lifted out Adele, I entered the house, and made good my retreat upstairs. He duly summoned me to his presence in the evening.
"Wherefore, Jonathan," she cried, "wherefore will ye sacrifice yourself, and why will ye gie up my winsome sons to the jaws of death? Is there not enough provided for the eagles' and the ravens' banquet, without their bonny blue een to peck at? Bide at hame, and, with my bairns, plough up the green fields, that the earth may provide us with food, as a fond mother, from its bosom.
"She told me I must never run; The Rebel boys were brothers; To stand forever by our flag, The Louisiana colors! And then she said, 'If you desert, You'll go to the Old Baily! Says I, 'My love, when I can't shoot, I'll use my old shillalah! "And many a bloody charge we made, Nor mind the battle's blaze; God gave to us a hero bold, Our bonny Harry Hays!
"Should think you'd be so fed up with this hooker, you wouldn't want any model of her," he remarked, by way of opening a conversation. "She's a bonny ship," I told him. "It is not the ship, it is the men in her. You'll never see a better craft than the Golden Bough, Boston." "Faugh!" he snorted, and followed with a blistering curse. "Blast your pretty ships!
And the anxious grey-bearded nurse, to rouse in the patient some gleam of joy in being, of pride in past prowess, breaks enthusiastically forth: "Oh, what good fortune Tristan, brave and bonny, met with there! What splendour of glory, what honors he won in the teeth of his enemies!" "Am I in Cornwall?" Tristan asks discouragingly. "No, no, I have told you! At Kareol." "How did I get here?"
And you meant me kindly, and I would not be uncivil, now you are a-going to give me a bonny cloak, and what colour shall it be?" "Why, what colour would you like best, Dame red?" "Red! no! like a gypsy-quean, indeed! Besides, they all has red cloaks in the village, yonder.
David should have given you the name of the bonniest of the bonny, and I was thinking to myself 'If she is so bonny she will be good at all events; and I took up my foot soles out of that. That was when I forgave yourself, Mr. Davie.
What could be the strange displacement or maladjustment which, in the brain harbouring the immortal thing, troubled it so, and made it yearn after an untasted liberty? The source of his jubilance now was easy to tell: the idea of the bonny man was henceforth, in that troubled brain of his, associated with the place into which they were about to descend.
These were sentiments to be encouraged; and, on the way home from church if church it could be called I adopted a most insidious device to magnify her interest. I took her into the confidence, that is, of my love affair, and I had no sooner mentioned a young lady with whom my affections were engaged than she turned upon me with a face of awful gravity. "Is she bonny?" she inquired.
You are no more like the bonny race of Hurlhursts than a raven is like a white dove!" And the poor old lady walked slowly back to the dark-robed figure in the hall, so eagerly awaiting her. "There was no use in my going to my young mistress; I knew she would not see you. But I suppose you are more satisfied now."
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