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"Would to God that she wass lying in the kirkyard; but I will not speak of her. She iss not anything to me this day. See, I will show you what I hef done, for she hass been a black shame to her name." He opened the Bible, and there was Flora's name scored with wavering strokes, but the ink had run as if it had been mingled with tears.
Donald Menzies was a man of moods, and the Doctor's prayer had loosed his imagination so that he saw visions. "Look," said he, as we stood on a ridge, "I hef seen it before in the book of Joshua." Below the bearers had crossed a burn on foot, and were ascending the slope where an open space of deep green was fringed with purple heather.
If there's nae disease in the organs o' the body, a puff o' Drumtochty air wud bring back a man frae the gates o' deith." "You hef made two hearts glad this day, Doctor McLure," said Lachlan, outside the door, "and I am calling you Barnabas." "Ye've ca'd me waur names than that in yir time," and the doctor mounted his horse.
The teffle tek him I could hef given him the other barrel myself!" And still they seemed loath to leave the ground, notwithstanding the gathering darkness.
There wass a man I wass seeing once in Tobbermorry, and he wass telling me about the castle that the Queen herself will hef on that island. And Mr. Ross, the Queen's piper, he will be living there too." But, of course, they had to part company when the train came up; and Hamish and Colin Laing got into a third-class carriage together.
"They are not anything to be admiring, and it wass not manners that I should hef been boasting of my men. It iss a pleasant evening and good for walking." "You were at the meeting, I think?" and Carmichael tried to get nearer this iron woman. "We were sorry you had to go out before the end. Did you not feel at home?"
"I hef not anything new," replied Angus, with becoming modesty; "but if the leddies wass willin' to listen to some o' the old tunes, my fuddle an' I will try what we can do." "We love the old tunes best," said Cora.
M'Alpine hef come away from Styornoway I wass thinking it wass too far for me effer to get back again. But it is many a one will say to me, before I hef left the Lewis, that I wass not to come home unless you wass coming too, and I wass to bring you back with me, Miss Sheila. And where is Bras, Miss Sheila?" "You will see him by and by. He is out in the garden now."
She was a pretty little thing, with a round fair face tanned by the sun, brown hair and soft dark eyes. She was bare-headed, bare-footed and bare-armed, but she was otherwise smartly dressed, and she held in her hand an enormous flounder, apparently about half as heavy as herself. "Will ye hef the fesh, Miss Sheila?" said the small Ailasa, holding out the flounder, but looking down all the same.
But I hef blotted out her name from my Bible, where her mother's name iss written and mine. She has wrought confusion in Israel and in an elder's house, and I ... I hef no danghter. But I loved her; she nefer knew how I loved her, for her mother would be looking at me from her eyes."
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