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The minute they were dismissed, which, at this season of the year, took place at three o'clock, no interval being given for dinner, because there was hardly any afternoon, the boys gathered in a knot at the door. "What are ye gaein' to do, General?" asked one. "Kill her," answered Alec. "What way?" "Stane her to death, loons, like the man 'at brak the Sabbath." "Broken banes for broken skins eh?
He has nowther balm o' grace nor pith o' damnation. "Yon laad Flemin', 'at preached i' the Baillies' Barn aboot the dowgs gaein' roon' an' roon' the wa's o' the New Jeroozlem, gien he had but hauden thegither an' no gean to the worms sae sune, wad hae dung a score o' 'im.
'What's this? she cried, but not so loud as to reach the ears of Mrs. Falconer; for, with true Scotch foresight, she would not willingly call in another power before the situation clearly demanded it. 'Whaur's Shargar gaein' that gait? 'Wi' me. Dinna ye see me wi' him? I'm nae a thief, nor yet's Shargar. 'There may be twa opingons upo' that, Robert. I s' jist awa' benn to the mistress.
"It's no possible!" returned Malcolm. "I saw him last nicht." "He cam about ten o'clock, sir, an' hed a turn o' the fa'in' sickness o' the spot. He 's verra ill the noo, an' the mistress sent me ower to speir gien ye wad obleege her by gaein' to see him." "Has he ta'en till 's bed?" asked Malcolm. "We pat him till 't, sir. He 's ravin' mad, an' I 'm thinkin' he 's no far frae his hin'er en'."
'Are thae a' ae body's? asked Robert. 'Troth are they. They're a' hers, I wat. Ye wad hae thocht she had been gaein' to The Bothie; but gin she had been that, there wad hae been a cairriage to meet her, said Crookit Caumill, the ostler.
He tellt the minister 'at tellt me, ance I was at the kirk wi' you, mother lang, lang syne twa or three hun'er years, I'm thinkin'. The bonny man tellt his ain fowk first that he was gaein awa in order that they michtna be able to do wantin him, and bude to stir themselves and come up efter him. And syne he slippit aff his feet, and gaed awa up intil the air whaur the snaw comes frae.
"One still night of summer, the nurse who watched by her bedside heard her murmur through her sleep, 'I hear it: come hame come hame. I'm comin', I'm comin' I'm gaein' hame to the wow, nae to come back. She awoke at the sound of her own words, and begged the nurse to convey to her brother her last request, that she might be buried by the side of the fool, within the old church of Ruthven.
I'm gaein hame wi' ye, bairn. Jean, my shune!" "Hoot, Thamas! I've jist cleaned them," screeched Jean from the kitchen at the second call. "Fess them here direckly. It's a jeedgment on ye for sayin' worship cud bide better nor the shune." Janet brought them and put them down sulkily.
Malcolm thought he might take his own time to set the child right, and asked her to go and tell her father that he wanted to see him. In a few minutes Blue Peter appeared, rubbing his eyes one of the dead called too early from the tomb of sleep. "Freen' Peter," said Malcolm, "I'm gaein' to speak oot the day." Peter woke up.
"Twa's better at onything nor ane himblane. The sutor's wife's gaein' in to see Grannie, an' Grannie 'll like her cracks a heap better nor mine. She thinks I hae nae mair brains nor a hen,'cause I canna min' upo' things at war nearhan' forgotten or I was born." Cosmo desisted from useless persuasion, and they struggled on together, through the snow above and the snow beneath.
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