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Aberdeen is a delightful city. She turned and surveyed the shelves above her. His look then would have melted the heart of any girl, except this one who loved him. 'Christina, he said piteously, 'it wasna a' ma fau't. Leisurely she faced him. 'May I ask what you are referring to? 'Ye never said ye was sorry to leave me; yer letters wasna like ye, an' I didna ken what to think.

Ye see I wad get my mither bestowed wi' her auld graning tittie, auntie Meg, in the Gallowgate o' Glasgow, and then I trust they wad neither burn her for a witch, or let her fail for fau't o' fude, or hang her up for an auld whig wife; for the provost, they say, is very regardfu' o' sic puir bodies.

Didn't they go into my heart at the time, an' how could I forget them? But I can't bear, somehow, to look back at what we wor then, bekase I feel my heart brakin', acushla!" "Well, Vara, look at me. Amn't I a poor wasted crathur now, in comparishment to what I was thin?" "God he sees the change that's in you, darlin'! But sure 'twasn't your fau't, or mine either, Dominick, avilish!"

As she passed on her way under the place where Hugh was thatching, he dropped a small handful of rushes on her head to call her attention, and when she looked up she saw his red-brick-hued face in a wild tow-coloured halo peering down at her from over the eaves. "I am sorry I lost it on you," he said. "Ah, no matter about it; and it wasn't your fau't more than another's," said Theresa.

I couldn't but think very ill of it, father; thinking ill, as I do, of him. Father dear, say no more, don't be breaking my heart I'll never have that man; but I'll stay happy with you. Old McB. Why, then, I'll be contint with that same; and who wouldn't? If it's what you'd rather stay, and can stay contint, Honor dear, I'm only too happy. Honor. In what can you fau't him, only his being a Rooney?

The mother and sister saw his eyes change, his shoulders stiffen. 'Maybe something's gaun to happen at last, he said; and almost in the same breath, though in a different voice 'Christina's finished wi' me. It was ma ain fau't. Ye needna speak aboot it. I I'm no heedin' greatly. He cleared his throat. 'I'll awa' up to the works an' say guid-bye to father. Jimsie can come, if he likes.

'Deed there's maist naething ither h'ard tell o' bit quittin'; for the full half o' Scaurnose is un'er like nottice for Michaelmas, an' the Lord kens what it 'll a' en' in!" "But what's it for? Blue Peter's no the man to misbehave himsel'." "Weel, ye ken mair yersel' nor ony ither as to the warst fau't there is to lay till's chairge; for they say that is, some say, it's a' yer ain wyte, Ma'colm."

I'll bear it all, for it was my fau't. The horse is mine, and say what you will, out of your stable I'll never bring him. I think, wid great sibmission a man may do what he pleases wid his own." "Certainly," said the Bishop; "my consent to permit your son to goto Maynooth is my own. Now this consent I will not give if you press that mode of argument upon me."

"That is her own fau't entirely; she has refused very good offers establishments that I own I think, as Lady Langdale says, I was to blame to allow her to let pass: but young ledies, till they are twenty, always think they can do better. Mr. Martingale, of Martingale, proposed for her, but she objected to him on account of he'es being on the turf; and Mr. St.

"Why, you said nothin' about widow Murray raisin' a head-stone over our child. You kept me in the dark there, Frank, an' sich a start I never got as I did this mornin', in the grave-yard beyant." "Upon my sowl, Owen, it wasn't my fau't, nor any of our fau'ts; for, to tell you the thruth, we had so much to think and discoorse of last night, that it never sthruck me, good or bad.