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Then the "schule" knew that Geordie Hoo was marked for college, and pelted him with fir cones in great gladness of heart. "Whinnie" was full of curiosity over the Dominie's visit, and vexed Marget sorely, to whom Geordie had told wondrous things in the milk-house. "It canna be coals 'at he's wantin' frae the station, for there's a fell puckle left."
Now, although I am an Irishman, and boast the most romantic blood of time, yet must I frankly admit that few countrymen of mine have such facility. Many of them there are who could be religious, and more who could be bad, with spontaneous ease, but few there be who know how to be both at once. But Geordie did. He was a profligate, but a pious profligate; a terror he was, but he was a holy terror.
Attached to the staff of the commander as engineer and topographical officer, he had ridden at will on the flanks of the column, a single orderly his sole attendant, a prismatic compass his only instrument. Then with the declining hours of the day came the making up of his notes, and after supper the hours of confab with Geordie, who, whenever possible, would come over to headquarters camp-fire.
"Thank ye, Nellie; ye are a' the woman I always thocht ye was, an' I'll see that nae dirty brute ever again gets the chance to insult ye," and he was out of the door before she could question him further. Geordie went straight to where Walker lived and knocked at the door.
David Haggart. Just sae, Geordie. Myself. And why were ye thinking of him? The English hanged him long since, as I have heard say. David Haggart. I was thinking that I should wish to be like him. Myself. Do ye mean that ye would wish to be hanged? David Haggart. I wad na flinch from that, Geordie, if I might be a great man first. Myself.
"Well, Geordie, I am going to ask you if you will come to Kirklands, where I live, on Sunday afternoons; and since you do not go to any school, I can read a little to you, and perhaps help you to learn something?" said Grace, not venturing to be more explicit on what she wished to teach. "Do you think you would like to come?" "Ay, would I," he replied, eagerly.
"Just think, Geordie," he cried, "if we were all at Reynolds we could run up the range to the Silver Shield any day, and watch them dragging out gold." "You haven't lost faith in the Shield, then?" asked Mrs. Graham, smilingly. She thought and cared so little herself.
Most miners are sensitive to the presence of strangers during this operation, and it so happened at that particular time the minister chose to pay one of his rare visits among his flock in the village. "Wha the hell's this noo?" asked Geordie, when he heard the tap at the door, as he looked up through soapy eyes, his head all lathered with the black suds.
They juist ken naething ava. But Mr. Craig looked at him for a moment and said, "Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out," and Geordie was silent, though he continued doubtful. With all these somewhat fantastic features, however, there was no mistaking the earnest spirit of the men. The meetings grew larger every night, and the interest became more intense.
I skate a lot at home; that is, when there's ice. We're dependent on that, you see, as we haven't an ice rink in Berwick." "Berwick? Small town?" "Yes. 'Bout as big as a minute," and Dotty laughed good-naturedly. "That's why you're so up to the minute, then," Geordie laughed back. "Want to sit down and rest a bit?" "All right. Let's," and they sat down for a few moments.
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