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"There is a way of living nearer to heaven than that," said my father, laying his hand, "with a right old man's grace," on his shoulder. "I dunno, 'cep' you was to go up in a belloon," said the man, with a twinkle in his eye, which my father took to mean that he understood him better than he chose to acknowledge; but he did not pursue the figure.
She's writ it all so ther' can't be no mistake." Then he began to read from his document with careful distinctness. "'Don't take no notice of what I told Toby Jenks an' Sandy Joyce. I jest fooled 'em proper. Toby's a nice boy, but he ain't got brains enough to kep himself warm on a summer day, so I didn't waste nothin' on him, 'cep' time.
"I hae a'thing at hame to make me blithe 'cep' it be a wheen mair siller," answered Cosmo; "but maybe that'll come neist wha kens?" "Ay! wha kens?" returned the girl with a sigh. "There's mony ane doobtless wad be ready eneuch wi' the siller anent what ye hae wantin' 't!" "I hae naething but an auld hoose no sae auld as lat the win' blaw through't, though," said Cosmo, amused.
He rose and would have taken her hand to draw it from her face; but she turned her back quickly, saying in a hard forced voice: "A man canna help a wuman 'cep it be till her grave." Then turning suddenly, she laid her hands on his shoulders, and cried: "For the love o' God, Ma'colm, lea' me this moment. Gien I cud tell ony man what ailed me, I wad tell you; but I canna, I canna!
"Can't go to sleep," said Aunt Peggy; "somefin in me won't sleep; somefin I never felt afore. It's in my bones; mebbe Death's somewhere in the neighborhood." "I reckon you're sick, Aunt Peggy," said Phillis; "why didn't you let me know you wasn't well?" "Aint sick, I tell you," said Aunt Peggy, angrily; "nothin the matter wid me. 'Spose you think there's nothin bad about, 'cep what comes to me."
Cape Breton's full o' niggers whose folk run in there durin' aour war, an' they talk like farmers all huffy-chuffy." "That is not Scotch," said "Pennsylvania." "That is Gaelic. So I read in a book." "Penn reads a heap. Most of what he says is so 'cep' when it comes to a caount o' fish eh?" "Does your father just let them say how many they've caught without checking them?" said Harvey. "Why, yes.
An' if you're wise to the ways of the law fellers you ken just about figger the verdict is goin' to come along to the feller with the biggest wad. In this case I guess I'm the feller with the biggest wad. Now, ther's no sort o' bad blood between Peters an' me, 'cep' it is he will sing hymns outrageous on a Sunday. Still, I ain't goin' to let that cut no ice.
The staring eyes relaxed their regard of the starry heavens. The lids flickered, then the eyes themselves turned in the direction whence came those sonorous tones. "You ken hear?" Bud's words came on the instant, and were full of triumph. Then he turned to the girl who had promptly relinquished Jeff's hand. "We ain't got a thing to hand him, 'cep' it's water," he said half-angrily.
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"Eh, soutar, but ye ir a man by Providence sair oppressed!" she cried. "Wha think ye's been i' the faut here?" The wrath of the soutar sprang up flaming. "Gang oot o' my hoose, ye ill-thouchtit wuman!" he shouted. "Gang oot o' 't this verra meenit and comena intil 't again 'cep it be to beg my pardon and that o' this gude wuman and my bonny lass here! The Lord God bless her frae ill tongues!
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