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Comyn Menteith put about her bairns; and as to room, the sergeant and the tailor bodie did not need much, and the masons were only busy in the front parlour." "Masons?" asked Ermine. "On, aye? didna ye ken it's for the new room, that is to be built out frae the further parlour, and what they ca' the bay to the drawin'-room, just to mak' the house more conformable like wi' his name and forbears.
"Do you?" "Well, I don't know; I supposed it was meant for a building." "Oh, no!" said Pauline. "It's meant for a dream. Don't wake us up, May! See; they're stopping in front of the Ca' Doro."
Hae patience they telled me aye that was the owercome o' life hae patience, there's a braw day coming yet. Gude kens it never cam to me; and here I am, wi' nayther man nor bairn to ca' my ain, wearying a' folks wi' my ill tongue, and you just the first, Mr. Erchie!" "I have a difficulty in knowing what you mean," said Archie. "Weel, and I'll tell ye," she said.
But gien I've ever had onything to ca' an ambition, Cosmo, it has been that my son should be ane o' the wise, wi' faith to believe what his father had learned afore him, an' sae start farther on upo' the narrow way than his father had startit.
I beg your pardon, I am so confused by this wretched affair. What did you say you can pick up? 'Just "The Seven Hunters," said the doctor rather sulkily. 'And what are "The Seven Hunters"? 'Just seven wee sma' islandies ahint the Butt of Lewis. The maps ca' them the Flanan Islands. Merton's heart gave a thump.
'I had a strange dream, said Jeannette; 'I thought you were all taken by a revenue cutter, and put in a cachot. I went to see you, and I did not know one of you again you were all changed. 'Very likely, Jeannette; you would not be the first who did not know their friends again when in misfortune. There was nothing strange in your dream. 'Mais, mon Dieu! je ne suis pas comme ça, moi.
At last they hove in sight, and one of our frigates, the `Inconstant, got so close that she brought to action the `Ca Ira, a French eighty-four, which had carried away her main and foretop masts. The `Inconstant, however, was obliged to bear away, and a French frigate came up and took the line-of-battle ship in tow, while two other line-of-battle ships guarded her on her weather bow.
And Mother Pepper smiled away to herself, and the voices from the orchard, with its one scraggy apple tree, came pealing in through the open window, as the rehearsal for the grand play was in progress. "I'm glad Polly'll have her posies," said Mrs. Pepper, hearing that, and seeing them go on the flower-hunt, as she paused a moment at the window. "Now they'll be good to trim the ca "
At quarter before eleven, the "Agamemnon" was within a hundred yards of the "Ça Ira's" stern, and this distance she was able to keep until I P.M. Here, by the use of the helm and of the sails, the ship alternately turned her starboard side to the enemy to fire her batteries, and again resumed her course, to regain the distance necessarily lost at each deviation.
They climbed in among the company; shared, lightly, their bread and wine; heard with momentary interest the latest news of the great war; spoke English and French in alternating clauses; inquired after the coterie's four young heroes at the French front, but only by stealth and out of Aline's hearing; and cried to Cupid, "'Ello, 'Ector! comment ça va-t-il?
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