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"Bless me!" he said, "what was I saying? You must ask some one else you must ask Mr. Ingram. Hef you not sent for Mr. Ingram? "Oh yes, sir, I have sent to him; and he will most likely come in the afternoon." "Then there are the executors mentioned in the will that wass something you should know about and they will tell you what to do. As for me, it is ferry little I will know about such things."
And it wass him that went in ta steamboat with a lot o' freens o' his, that wass a' goin' to Skye to a big weddin' there; and it wass a very bad passage, and when tey got into Portree the captain said to him, 'John, where iss all your freens that tey do not come ashore? And he said to him, 'I hef peen down below, sir, and four-thirds o' ta whole o' them are a' half-trooned and sick and tead. Four-thirds o' ta whole o' them!
Der whole tsaloon element knows dot, und knows dot all voult be treated der same. Mit you it voult be fairness fer each one. Foolish peobles hef sait you are a law-tricker, but we know dot you hef only mate der laws brotect as well as bunish. Und at such times as dey het been broken, you hef made dem as mertsiful as you coult. You are no tricker. We are willing to help you make it a glean town.
"Oh, it iss nothing it is nothing at all," said Mackenzie with a studied air of unconcern. "There iss much more beautiful things than that in the island, but you will hef need of a ferry long time before you will find it all out. That that iss nothing at all."
"And why not?" said Lachlan, quite humbly. "Because you will be calling yourself the elder son and many more bad names, and I will be angry with you." "But they are true names, and it iss good for me to know myself." "You hef just one true name, and that iss father.... And now you will be singing a psalm."
"It will be hard on you to part with Sheila when she marries," said Ingram, scarcely daring to look up. "Oh, ay, it will be that," said Mackenzie cheerfully enough. "But it iss every one will hef to do that, and no great harm comes of it.
"Look, now," he would say, speaking of his own tongue, "look at this teffle of a language! It has no present tense to its verbs: the people they are always looking forward to a melancholy future or looking back to a melancholy past. In the name of Kott, hef we not got ourselves to live? This day we live in is better than any day that wass before or iss to come, bekass it is here and we are alive.
This Fraser turned out to be a "dour" man; and his discontent and grumbling seemed to be affecting the others, so that the domestic peace of Dare was threatened. On the night in question old Hamish came into Macleod's conjoint library and gun-room. "The fishermen hef been asking me again, sir," observed Hamish, with his cap in his hand. "What will I say to them?" "Oh, about the wages?"
"You'll have to see Derrick himself or Harran about that, Bismarck," interrupted Presley, trying to draw away. "That's something outside of me entirely." But Hooven was not to be put off. No doubt he had been meditating his speech all the morning, formulating his words, preparing his phrases. "Say, no, no," he continued. "Me, I wanta stay bei der place; seven yahr I hef stay.
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