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Still there was nothing like certainty; 'twas always best to be off wi' the old, an' so forth! Rising, he headed for Janet, who, with her father, Jeannie, Timmins, and the minister, stood talking at the vestry door. As he made his way forward, he reaped a portion of the Devil's promised fame.
It's no that kind o' liking that's to last through married years, and be like a singing bird in your breasts to the end o' your days. No, Jeannie, unless your very souls be, as it were, cemented thegither, unless ye see something in him that ye see in naebody else, and unless he sees something in you that he sees in naebody else, dinna marry still.
There had been two others, both boys, who had come into the world between Augusta and Jeannie, but they had both preceded their father to the land of shadows. Mrs.
It was a policeman, to say that she and her mother must be up to the office by ten. "And shall we not?" said Jeannie, laughing; "wouldn't I have been there at any rate?" Then, a little after, came the stern Henderson, still ignorant of who robbed him. Mrs. S th got up trembling, and looking at him with terror, so dark he appeared. "Where is Charles?" he said.
There was a look o' witherin' reproach in my mother-in-law's een, and I heard her mutterin' between her teeth, 'I aye said what his three tumblers wad come to. But my dear Jeannie bore it like a Christian, as she is.
'Dinna boast, said his mother. 'What wud you shoot, Christina, if you had a gun? 'I think I wud practise on a cocoa-nut, Jimsie, she said, with a small laugh. After tea Mrs. Robinson took Christina into the parlour while Jeannie tidied up. Presently the door bell rang, and Jimsie rushed to meet the postman. 'It's for Macgreegor, he announced, returning and handing a parcel to his mother.
Their rooms have been waiting since the twenty-third, and all the rest are full." And two or three young girls dropped mallets and ran over. "Maud Walcott!" "Mattie Shannon!" "Jeannie!" "Nell!" "How came you here?" "We've been here these ten days, looking for you the last three." "Why, I can't take it in! I'm so surprised!" "Isn't it jolly, though?"
Nothing again! . . . His mother's anxious questions as to his health irritated him, and he so far lost his temper as to ask his sister why she was wearing a face like a fiddle. Poor Jeannie! For half the night she had been weeping for her hero and wishing the most awful things for the unknown Maggie. 'Ye'll be back for yer denner, laddie? his mother called after him as he left the house.
I plunged into the wheel below the linn, and got her out in my arms. I ran wi' her to the house, and I laid my drowned bairn on her mother's knee. Everything that could be done was done, and a doctor was brought frae Dunse; but the spark o' life was out o' my bit Jeannie.
It was so, and Reuben gave her the papers to prove it, and a letter to the Duke of Argyle; and she, begging him to do what he could for her father and sister, left the room hastily. With a strong heart, and a frame patient of fatigue, Jeannie Deans, travelling at the rate of twenty miles and more a day, traversed the southern part of Scotland, where her bare feet attracted no attention.
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