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Mysie was silent, and after a while Peter went on; "It is a duty, dear, but I am going to face it, and shoulder the responsibility. It is the right thing to do, and it must be done." "Ay, an' you are gaun to dae it, just as a bairn tak's medicine; because you are forced. I asked if that was a', and it seems to be. But what if I don't have onything mair to dae with you?"
'I prefer no to wait where I'm no welcome, she said in a deeply offended tone, and made to rise. He caught her plump arm. 'Wha said ye wasna welcome? Eat yer sweeties an' dinna talk nonsense. If ye want to see the rest o' the picturs, I'm on. I've naething else to dae the nicht. After a slight pause. 'Dae ye want me to bide Macgreegor? 'I'm asking ye. She sighed. 'Ye're a queer lad.
She planted stakes round it to keep off the force of the wind. But that year the flowering bore no fruit. And Wullie smiled at her attempts to help the tree. "The roots are doon too deep, lassie," he said. "Sae deep ye canna reach them. There's little ye can dae for tree or man, Marcella, but juist not hinder them.
"Come in, come in," I said cordially, for he was dear to me, and we had the bond of a common sorrow. "Have you forgotten something?" "No," he answered, "but I hae minded something. I didna speak when a' the ithers spoke; but I want to tell ye something by yirsel'. I think ye ought to ken. It has to dae wi' yir decision. "Ye mind wee Issie?
The washin's no' extra guid for them, but a body maun dae something for meat. I've anither mooth to fill noo. My guid-brither, Bob Johnson, is deid since I saw ye, an' I've been obleeged to tak' Tammy no' an ill loon. He's at the schule, or ye wad hae seen him. 'I don't suppose you would be sorry to leave this place and give up the washing if you could get something easier? said Gladys.
"A' wud gie onything tae say Annie hes a chance, but a' daurna; a' doot yir gaein' tae lose her, Tammas." MacLure was in the saddle, and as he gave his judgment, he laid his hand on Tammas's shoulder with one of the rare caresses that pass between men. "It's a sair business, but ye 'ill play the man and no vex Annie; she 'ill dae her best, a'll warrant."
"Begging my paurdon 'll no dae," was the retort, "I'm gaun to gie ye a skelp o' the lug!" "I hope you will accept my apology," the pale-faced young gentleman continued in the same stiff and embarrassed manner. "I don't know whether it is worth while my offering any excuse for what I did except that it was done under a misapprehension.
'Hoo daur ye! she cried, forgetting her 'fine English' as well as her haughty pose. 'If it was true, it wud mean that ye've been judgin' me unfair, kennin' it was unfair, an' I'll never believe ye wud dae that. . . . So, Christina dear, listen to me an' gi'e me a chance. 'Oh, what's the use, she sighed with sudden weariness, 'what's the use o' pretendin', Macgreegor? 'Wha's pretendin'? 'You!
The tongue-tied youth merely gaped like a stranded fish, until the sergeant mercifully intervened, in some such words as these "This man, sirr, is liable to get over-excited when addressed by an officer." Then, soothingly "Now, Jimmy, tell the officer what would ye dae in case of fire?" "Present airrms!" announces the desperate James. Or else, almost tearfully, "I canna mind.
If there's onything we kin dae in this warld we suld dae it, and there's Jake Martin's bairns need a mither if ever onybody did aye, for they niver had ane yit, ah misdoot jist a pair drudge that hadna the spunk to protect her ain. But ah'm no that kind. Aye, but ah'm no!"
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