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White, who saw the policy of speaking fair the woman who had been so recently in the company of an evil genius; "I am glad to find you so stout and hearty." "Neither o' the twa, sir," replied she; "for I am rather weak and heartless. Many a ane I hae nursed into health and strength, but a' nursing comes hame in the end."
At length we arrived at Dunse, and a great crowd was there to meet us wives to welcome their husbands, parents to greet their children, and children their parents. The first that my eyes singled out, was a sister of my Agnes. She ran up to me. "Roger," she cried, "hae ye seen onything o' Robie?" The words went through my breast as if it had received the fire of a whole French battalion.
I thanked him again for his goodness in what sincere terms I could choose, and told him I should be obliged if he would put me in the way of working my passage to London upon some coasting vessel. But my voice was thick, my affection for him having grown-past my understanding. "Hoots!" he replied, moved in his turn, "whyles I hae siller ye shallna lack.
And, fourth and last, my brither: I'm no' needing your siller, and I can manage to do fair weel without your conversation." As this bombardment proceeded, the sergeant's jaw dropped. When it was finished he laughed heartily and slapped his knee. "Man, come an' brak bread wi' me or I'll hae to brak yer stiff neck."
"If I were free to swear that ye had said but ae word of how it stude wi' you, they couldna hae touched your life this day!" "Could they na?" said Effie, with something like awakened interest. "Wha' tauld ye that, Jeannie?" "It was ane that kenned what he was saying weel eneugh," said Jeannie. "Hout!" said Ratcliffe. "What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?
There was no attempt at conversation. He seemed to shudder every time the blast yelled along the roof; and, as a fiercer gust burst open the door, there was a half-muttered ejaculation. "Heaven itsel hae mercy on them! for what can man do in a night like this?"
But I hae received na orders to that effect." "Can't you whistle her in for me?" asked Thorpe. "I canna," answered the engineer, promptly enough this time. "Why not?" "Ye're na what a body might call freight." "No other way out of it?" "Na." Thorpe was seized with an idea. "Here!" he cried. "See that boulder over there? I want to ship that to Mackinaw City by freight on this boat."
"O sir," replied Simon, "ye wrong me ye mistake my meaning a'thegither. If you are to die, I will die also; but do ye no think it would be as valorous, and mair rational, at least to see and hear the young leddy before ye determine to die rather than to marry her?" "And hae ye," said the maiden, addressing the laird, "preferred the gallows to poor Meg without even seeing her?"
Half o' oor ventures hae failed because ye object to hurry." "Hoot, man! that's enough o't," said Spink, in the nettled tone of a man who has been a good deal worried. Indeed, the tones of both showed that these few sentences were but the continuation of a quarrel which had begun elsewhere.
"I'm vexed it's no to yer taste, laird!" returned Grizzie coolly, "but I hae nane better." "Ye tellt me ye had soor milk," said the laird without a particle of offence, rather in the tone of apology for having by mistake made away with something too good for him.
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