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Cromarty, is neither more nor less than I'd have expectit of a gentleman of your intelligence. Weel, to continue, Miss Farmond acted on your advice which would have been my own, sir, under the circumstances and tellt her ladyship the plain facts. Weel then " "And what did Lady Cromarty say to you?" demanded Ned. "Hardly a word. She simply looked at me and said she would send for Mr. Rattar."
I took a hand at the cairts and sang a lilt like the rest; but I was luiking for Alick's company to fill up my cup of happiness. The time wore on, and it was getting close to the hour at which he might be expectit. I kenna what ailed me, but I felt strangely uneasy and anxious for his coming. 'Here he is at last! I said to myself, as my heart gave a jump at the sound of a foot on the gravel walk.
There was no ane in the whole parish mair against you than mysel'; but this early visitation is a symptom of grace that I couldna have expectit from a bird out the nest of patronage."
He explained the hale circumstances o' the case to me, and I dinna think the charge o' a grown, handsome girl like Maggie was comformable, or to be thocht o'. A man that is climbing the pu'pit stairs, canna hae any woman hanging on to him. It's no decent, it's no to be expectit.
I'll tell ye. They wanted to make sure of her, but they wouldn't have thought o' dope unless the men they expectit were due to arrive at any moment. As I see it, we've to face a siege not by the three but by a dozen or more, and it'll no' be long till it starts. Now, isn't it a mercy we're safe in here?" Dickson returned to the others with a grave face.
I love Maggie. The lassie aye loved me. She wouldna thank you to speak sae sharply to me. She will tell you some day that I did all that could be expectit of me." "Forgive me, David. I feel almost broken-hearted. I am irritable also for want of food. I have not eaten since early this morning." "That is not right, sir. Sit down, in a few minutes you shall have all that is needful."
"An' skipping to his freends upo' the Borr'der.... Toch!" The network of wrinkles tightened about the sharp little blue-grey eyes of the Chief Medical Officer. "That would gie a thochtfu' man a kind o' notion that a reese in the temperature may be expectit shortly. An' so you slept soundly on the strength o' many wakeful nichts to come?
It was a dooms het day, an' there wasna a ruffle o' breeze; sae nae doobt the fush was takin' as muckle oot o' her as she was takin' oot o' the fush. In aboot ten meenits there happent juist fat I had expectit. The fush made a sidelins shoot, an' dairted intil the vera crevice occupeed by Leddy Carline's fush the day afore. 'Noo for the fun! thinks I, as I sat still an' smokit calmly.
Grannie, who had managed to creep up the ladder from the deserted hold, remarked 'We are sooner in Canada than I expectit. Her exclamation brought the reaction from our dread and we burst into laughter. 'It is not Quebec, shouted Allan in her ear, 'we are aground. 'A weel, she replied, 'I will cling to the rock o' my salvation. The order was given to get ready the boats.
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