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"Yes, we're horrid grateful," grunted McTurk. "We don't forget that soap. We're polite. Why ain't you polite, Rat?" "Hallo!" Stalky cantered up, his cap over one eye. "Exhortin' the Whiffers, eh? I'm afraid they're too far gone to repent. Rattray! White! Perowne! Malpas! No answer. This is distressin'. This is truly distressin'. Bring out your dead, you glandered lepers!"
But I warn you, ladies and gentlemen, all, don't you take the law into your own hands over this distressin' case, but go to him meek-like an' say you want Arch'laus punished. That's all. Leastways, that's all, unless you ask my honest opinion on the breeches in question, which is, that I wouldn't put 'em astride a clothes-horse and call him a son o' mine."
"Take me," he exclaimed; "ah, no; for then what will become of these?" pointing to his son and daughter, who were sick. The very minions of the law felt for him; and the chief of them said, in a voice of kindness and compassion: "It's a distressin' case; but if you'll be guided by me, you won't say anything that may be brought against yourself.
"I know there's a sight of difference in corpses. Perfessors of religion make the peacefullest." "Was she not one?" "Well, no; and she was took so bad she hadn't time to perfess. Beside Dan'el tells me she suffered uncommon till the very last breath, that makes her look more distressin' than she would." "Is he a professor?" "No, my family didn't seem to lean that way.
It ain't to be wondered at anybody should want to bid in their own things, but it's kind of distressin' to an auctioneer that wants to earn his money. Now here's this high-boy. I'll rattle it off before Miss Letty gets time to have a change of heart an' come down again. What am I offered for old Parson Lamson's high-boy, bonnet-top an' old brasses all complete?"
"Oh; we so often heard of you from Bernard! He was your fag, was n't he? How distressin' it is to see these poor boys in the boats!" "Mother, they like it!" cried the girl. "Antonia ought to be rowing, herself," said her father, whose name was Dennant. Shelton went back with them to their hotel, walking beside Antonia through the Christchurch meadows, telling her details of his college life.
Having dispatched Jock, after seein the letter carefully buttoned up inside his jacket, I waited his return wi' a painfulness o' suspense, and intensity o' feelin, that I wad rather leave to the reader's imagination, than attempt to describe. It was most distressin most agitatin. At length, Jock appeared I mean in the distance. My heart began to beat violently.
Dennant singled themselves out; he could see their faces as they talked their faces with a peculiar and uneasy look on them; and he could hear their voices, still decisive, but a little acid, as if they had been quarrelling: "He 's made a donkey of himself!" "Ah! it's too distressin'!" They, too, thought him unsound, and did n't want him; but to save the situation they would be glad to keep him.
And weel do I mind mony a time I wondered what pleasure she could tak in distressin me; but I think noo it was just a frailty o' our nature a something that auld folk canna help. And I think, too, I've discovered the cause o' her grumlin since I began to see the prospect o' Sandy takin a wife.
It 's a most distressin' disease an' must be took early, but I think I know how to fix it." During her various investigations, she had found a huge bunch of keys beneath a pile of rubbish on the floor of a closet in an unoccupied room. It was altogether possible, as she told herself, that one of these keys should fit the somnambulist's door.
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