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I am thinking I would maybe be like that myself, if the Lord had made me a boy." "Well, my lass, there's nane will deny that Bryde was a little that way himself he would aye have a quick eye for a likely lass from what I can mind." "Well," said she, being very merry and bold, and showing herself before me, "am not I a likely lass, Hamish, my dear?"
'A pretty thing it would have been, he said to me, 'had there been no organist this afternoon; it might have cost me my post." "Moonshine!" said Hamish. "It might have cost him a word of reproof; nothing more." "Helstonleigh's dean is a strict one, remember. I told Williams he might always depend upon me."
'Gerald, look at your line, cried Harry, springing forward, and Gerald pulled in a haddock, while Allan and Hamish steadied the boat, which had been set rocking by Harry's sudden movement. It was a beautiful evening, and the fish were taking well, but sport was spoiled by the incapacity of the Grahams to keep still.
He had risen that morning resolved to hint to Ellen that any particular intimacy with Hamish must cease. But he was strangely undecided about it. Now that the moment was come, he almost doubted, himself, Hamish's guilt.
"For some things I like it for most things, indeed; but sometimes I long for a sight of the fields and woods, more for my wee Mary's sake than for my own." "This is our wool," said Shenac, as they entered the barn; "I wish it was spun." "Shenac," said her cousin kindly, "have you not undertaken too much? It's all very well for you to speak of Hamish and Dan, but the weight must fall on you.
She had never moved through the coming in of them all; she did not move now, but spoke his name. "Hamish, bhodach!" Did he see her? "How bright it is in the west! It will be a fair day for the harvest to-morrow."
She opened the door of the hut gently, and entered with noiseless step. Exhausted with his sorrow and anxiety, and not entirely relieved perhaps from the influence of the powerful opiate, Hamish Bean again slept the stern, sound sleep by which the Indians are said to be overcome during the interval of their torments.
Even Annabel and Tom were wont to hush their voices; ever listening, as it were, for tidings to be brought of him. Excepting the two servants, Arthur was alone in it. Hamish was abroad, at his office; Constance and Annabel were at Lady Augusta's; Tom was in school; and Charles was not.
"Imphm," says Dan; "imphm, Hamish, as Aul' Nick said when his mouth was fu'. Yon's Finlay's beast, and I'm thinkin' o' a' Finlay's lassies, there's just wan wid bother her noddle tae come here away, and that's Mirren; but wae's me," said he, with his droll smile, "she's set her cap at the excise-man, they tell me."
No: nothing of the sort. Constance was ascending the stairs as Hamish withdrew. "Can I come in, Arthur?" she asked. For answer, he opened the door and drew her inside. "Has Hamish spoken of it?" she whispered. "Not a word as to his own share in it. He asked, in a general way, if he could serve me. Constance," he feverishly added, "they do not suspect downstairs, do they?" "Suspect what?"
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