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He took out the bags of money. "There is one bag gone! fifty pounds gone!" he exclaimed. "Na, that canna be, gin it was in the bag. I hanna opened it ance," said the girl, unhesitatingly. The man paid no attention to her words, but took out the jewels and began to examine them. "Confound it!
I knaw I'm na scholar, an' mabbe ye think I'm rough-mannered. I knaw I've spoken sharply to ye once or twice lately. But it's jest because I'm that mad wi' love for ye: I jest canna help myself soomtimes He waited, peering into her face.
It was a painful operation, for his thatch was a stubborn mat of crisp waves and knotty tangles to his plumy tail and down to his feathered toes. He braced himself and took the punishment without a whimper, and when it was done he stood cascaded with dark-silver ripples nearly to the floor. "The bonny wee!" cried Mistress Jeanie. "I canna tak' ma twa een aff o' 'im."
"It's the old story," she answered with a feeble smile. "'I canna leave my minnie. There is nobody in the world to take care of Johanna but me, not even Elizabeth, who is engrossed in little Henry. If I left her, I am sure it would kill her. And she can not come with me. Dear!"
"If ye maun leave us," said his mother, "can ye no seek anither hame nearer han', an' no gang awa across the water to yon' wild place they ca' Canada?" "We maun try to be reasonable, woman," said his father, "but I canna deny that the thought o' our first born son gaun sae far awa gie's me a sair heart."
"Let me ken, Andrew," broke in Matthew. "Let me ken if ever ye discover onything; an' ye can count on me sharin' the penalties o' hell alang wi' ye for the murder o' the big black brute." "I heard," said Peter, "that he was boozin' wi' Mag Robertson and Sanny. But we'll no' be long in kennin', for ill-doin' canna hide."
"I canna get at the richts o' what keeped him frae the meeting, Femie, but it had something to do wi' an Egyptian on the hill. Very like he had been trying to stop the gypsy marriage there. I gaed to the manse to speir at Jean what was wrang, but I'm thinking I telled her mair than she could tell me." "Man, man, Andrew, the wite o't lies wi' Peter Tosh.
The gladiolus is horticulturally the most important member of the Iridacæ or great Iris family and has long been the most popular of all summer-flowering bulbous plants, ranking in general usefulness even such prime favorites as the dahlia, the canna and the lily.
"Lord Evandale?" answered the old lady, "that's him that the whigs are gaun to hang the morn, as I hear say." "The whigs about to hang Lord Evandale?" said Morton, in the greatest surprise. "Ay, troth are they," said the housekeeper. These are sair times! but folk canna help them sae do ye sit down and tak bread and cheese until better meat's made ready.
"Dinna ye think, my lord, it wad be better to get the baskets up first?" interposed Malcolm. "Yes, I think so. Wilson can help you." "Na, my lord; he canna lea' the cutter. The tide's risin, an' she's ower near the rocks." "Well, well; we shan't want lunch for an hour yet, so you can take your time." "But ye maun taik kent, my lord, hoo ye gang amo' the ruins.
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