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'Zounds, stop that bellyache blether, quoth he, 'that will ne'er wile a stiver out o' peasants' purses; 'twill but sour the nurses' milk, and gar the kine jump into rivers to be out of earshot on't. What, false knave, did I buy thee a fine new psaltery to be minded o' my latter end withal?
The next minute would see their safe passage or a helpless hulk beating to pieces on the bar, with three human fragments whirling under the crushing masses of water, floating, perhaps, with the dawn into the tranquillity of the bay. "Three and a half," he cried monotonously. The Gar trembled like a wounded and dull animal. The solid seas were reaching hungrily over Woolfolk's legs.
"I will neither hide nor fly," said I, "for I am as guiltless of the blood of these women as the child unborn." "The country disna think sae, master; an' I can assure you that, should evidence fail, you run a risk o' being torn limb frae limb. They are bringing the corpse here, to gar ye touch them baith afore witnesses, an' plenty o' witnesses there will be!"
Archibald," answered the Captain of Knockdunder, "wad ye hae them ring the bell before I am ready to gang to kirk? I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom. But if ye want to hear the bell, I will just show mysell on the knowe-head, and it will begin jowing forthwith."
"Say nae I was beguil't; say naething to gar me think less o' my fault than I should: there was nae beguiler but my ain vain and sinful nature." Her daughter, who had all this time stood silent with the tear in her e'e, then said, "I'll gang wi' you, mother, too." "Mother! O Agnes Kilspinnie, dinna sae wrang yoursel', and your honest father, as to ca' the like o' me mother.
He poured out another drink of brandy, and, downing it, pushed back his chair. "By Gar, I talk too mooch, maybe," he said, yawning. "But eet make no dif. Ze Capitaine he cop ze monies just ze same, an' eet better you know. Now I turn in an' sleep." He crossed the cabin to his stateroom, and closed the door.
"You had some regard for him, then?" continued the stranger. "How could I help it? His face was made of a fiddle, as they say, for a' body that looked on him liked him. And a braw soldier he was. Oh, an ye had but seen him down at the brigg there, fleeing about like a fleeing dragon to gar folk fight that had unto little will till 't!
The Italian was touched. He patted Archie B.'s head: "Breens," he said, "breens uppa da." Again he shook the gold in the face of Jud and Bill. "Now bring on ze ten to one, py Gar!" The cheers of the crowd nettled Billy and Jud. "Jes' wait till we come back," said Jud. "'He laughs bes' who laughs las'." They retired for consultation. Bonaparte followed.
But," added Jerry with a cheerful giggle, "he not keel 'em yet, by Gar!" For some minutes they waited in silence, then they saw Copperhead with his bodyguard of Sioux disappear from the circle of the firelight into the shadows of the forest. "Now you go sleep," whispered Jerry. "Me keep watch."
Ye hae naebody, I ken, to gar you sleep! They went all the rest of the way talking thus, and Kirsty's heart grew lighter, for she seemed to get a little nearer to her brother. He had been her live doll and idol ever since his mother laid him in her arms when she was little more than three years old.
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