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Gien I ca'd ye a cooard, it was 'at ye behaved sae ill to Phemy. 'Eh, the bonny little Phemy! I had 'maist forgotten her! Hoo is she, Kirsty? 'She's weel and verra weel, answered Kirsty; 'she's deid. 'Deid! echoed Gordon, with a cry, again raising himself on his elbow. 'Surely it wasna it wasna 'at the puir wee thing cudna forget me! The thing's no possible! I wasna worth it!
They rade an' they ran; the doctor cam', an' the minister, an' the lawyer, an' the grave-digger. But whan a man's deid, what can a' the warl' du for 'im but berry 'im? puir hin'er en' thof it be to him' at draws himsel' up, an' blaws himsel' oot! There was mony a conjectur as to hoo he cam by his deith, an' mony a doobt it wasna by fair play.
"The time micht come whan to confess even that would ease a man's hert! but in sic a case, the man's first duty, it seems to me, would be to watch for an opportunity o' doin that neebour a kin'ness. That would be the deid blow to his hatred!
Gien ye could, ye wouldna be sae comfortable as ye seem!" "I cannot think, Mr. MacLear, why you should be rude to me!" "Gien ye saw the hoose on fire aboot a man deid asleep, maybe ye micht be in ower great a hurry to be polite til 'im!" remarked the soutar. "Dare you suggest, sir, that I have been drinking?" cried the parson.
"A'm no' so sure he's deid in the corporeal sense," said Tam cautiously, "but he is removed from the roll of effectives." So far from being dead, the "Sausage-Killer," who, appropriately enough, was ludicrously like a young butcher, with his red fat face and his cold blue eye, was very much alive and had a grievance. "Where did that man drop from?" he demanded truculently, "I didn't see him."
Is't onything deid?" "Na, mem, de'il a bit o' 't! It's livin' eneuch. It's a stranger lad that I gae a lift till upo' the road. He's fell tired." But Dow's voice trembled, or�-or something or other revealed all to the mother's heart. She gave a great cry. Alec sprung from the cart, rushed into the house, and was in his mother's arms.
I hae aye won'ert what for fowk wad sit up wi the deid: yet I min' me weel they aye did i' the auld time." In this she showed, however, and in this alone, that the girl she lamented was not her own daughter; for when the other Isy died, her body was never for a moment left with the eternal spaces, as if she might wake, and be terrified to find herself alone.
She's a paad woman, 'tat she'll pe certain sure, though she'll nefor saw her to speak to her. She'll haf claaws to her poosoms." "Weel, daddy, there was naething ither to gar ye lo'e me. I was jist a helpless human bein', an' sae for that, an' nae ither rizzon, ye tuik a' that fash wi' me! An' for mysel', I'm deid sure I cudna lo'e ye better gien ye war twise my gran'father."
Ye micht hae gotten a waur fleg gin I hadna come up, for Mr Beauchamp was takin' the bearin's o' ye throu the window, and whan I gaed up, he slippit awa' like a wraith. There ye lay, wi' yer heid back, and yer mou' open, as gin you and the deid man had been tryin' whilk wad sleep the soun'est. But ye hae ta'en to ither studies sin' syne. Ye hae a freah subject a bonnie young ane.
'An' nae suner's my leddy deid nor her man follows her! says she. 'An' what do ye mak o' that? says she. 'Ay, what do ye mak o' that? says I till her again.
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