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And by the time we would get to Callernish it wass a ferry hard drive there will be to get to Stornoway by six o'clock; and there is the mare, sir, she will hef lost a shoe " Mr. Mackenzie's diplomacy gave way. He turned upon the keeper with a sudden fierceness and with a stamp of his foot: " you, Duncan MacDonald! is it you or me that is the master?
"The dinner is just ready now, mem; and if you will hef it in the saloon, there will be no one there; that wass Sir Keith's message to you." "I will not have it in the saloon; I will have it here." "Ferry well, mem," Christina said, submissively. "But you will go into the saloon, mem, when I will mek the bed for you, and the lamp will hef to be lit, but Hamish he will light the lamp for you.
Farbach, once in his life, was so ready to reply that he was able to interrupt. "Who hef you heert speak off bounding? Hef I speakt off favors? Dit I say der shoult be slackness in der city gofer'ment? Litsen to me, Choe." He renewed his contemplation of his cigar, then proceeded: "I hef been t'inkin' it ofer, now a couple years. I hef mate up my mind.
Lachlan accepted his commission with quite unusual diffidence, and offered a very free translation on the way home. "It wass a mercy to hef you at the meeting this night, Donald Menzies, for I saw that Satan had come in great strength, and it iss not every man that can withstand him. But you will not be ignorant of his devices; oh no, you will be knowing them fery well.
I suppose you wass afraid the people would wonder at you coming back alone. But they will know nothing about it. Mairi she is a very good lass: she will do anything you will ask of her: you hef no need to think she will carry stories.
Suddenly Otto slackened and turned about with a blanched face. "Mein gracious! I dinks I hef got de wrong road!" Jack was in despair; then he was angered. "Go on; go somewhere; don't stop here!" he said. And he almost shoved him off his feet in his desperate impatience. "Vosn't dot fooney?" said Otto, breaking into another desperate run; "it is the road arter all."
You cannot tell a young lass the one she should marry: it iss all a chance the one she likes, and if she does not marry him it is better she will not marry at all. Oh yes, I know that ferry well. And I hef known there wass a time coming when I would give away my Sheila to some young man; and there iss no use complaining of it.
"But surely, sir," said Ingram, "you need not consider all this just yet. I am sure neither of them has thought of any such thing." "No," said Mackenzie, recovering himself, "perhaps not. But we hef our duties to look at the future of young folks. And you will say that Mr. Lavender hass only expectations of money?" "Well, the expectation is almost a certainty.
"You don't seem disposed, sir, to regret that Lavender has been robbed of what should have belonged to him?" "Oh, not at all," said Mackenzie, gravely and cautiously, for he did not want his plans to be displayed prematurely. "But I hef no quarrel with him; so you will not think I am glad to hef the money taken away for that.
"And perhaps it is a fine thing to hef a hotel; and Mr. M'Arthur they say he is a ferry rich man, and he has ferry fine pictures too; but I was thinking that if I will be off the Barra Head on a bad night between the Sgriobh bhan and the Barra Head on a bad night it is not any hotel I will be wishing that I wass in, but a good boat.
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