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I have now but one word to say, which is, that should ever your honour please to visit me at my mine, your honour shall receive every facility for inspecting the works, and moreover have a bellyful of drink and victuals from Jock Greaves, miner from the county of Durham." I shook the honest fellow by the hand, and went on in company with the lad John and his dog as far as the Devil's Bridge.
And Jock, ill as he was, did not fill his mother with such dread for the future as did Armine, when she found him, quiet indeed, but unable to lie down, except when supported on John's breast and in his arms- with a fearful oppression and pain in his chest, and every token that the lungs were suffering. He had not let them call her.
Ye shall have the pick av the best quality in my rigimint for the dinner you have given this day. Thin I came hot-foot to you two. Hould your tongue, the both. 'Tis this way. To-morrow we three will go there an' he shall have his pick betune me an' Jock. Jock's a deceivin' fighter, for he is all fat to the eye, an' he moves slow. Now I'm all beef to the look, an' I move quick.
She lifted her hands to my shoulders. "Suppose we find that we can't stand a life of love with renunciation?" "At least we would have tried to do what seemed to make for the happiness of the most people." "And you think I ought to live on with John, as as his wife?" "No, I couldn't bear that but as his friend, Lucy, as the mother of Jock and Hurry.
She swung round to her desk. T.A. Buck, strolling toward the door, still wore the puzzled look. "I don't know what makes you take this so seriously. Of course, the boy will be a long way off. But then, you've been separated from him before. What's the difference now?" "T.A.," said Emma McChesney solemnly, "Jock will be drawing a man-size salary now.
It was like making believe. You see," she paused impressively, "when you have a Mission like Settlement work, you don't have to have a chaperon." "Ten to one, they're needed, though." Jock was keenly interested. "Cutting loose from familiar ties and acting up sort of detached that way, must have a queer effect upon some." "Well, I just got enough of it.
" and, in fact, in advertising copy of any description that has been sent out from the Raynor offices." The girl's pencil flew over the pad. But when Jock paused for thought or breath she lifted her head and her eyes grew soft and bright, and her foot, in its absurd high-heeled gray boot, beat a smart left! Left! Left-right-left! Something of this picture T.A. Buck saw in his untasted coffee cup.
Jock seemed to listen more attentively to this harangue than he had ever done to a sermon in his life. During the latter part of it he appeared thoughtful; and, when it was concluded "I've been thinkin," said he, "that, as Andrew and Tibby hae come sae weel on " Here he seemed to have forgotten what he was about to say, and was silent.
It looks brave and baggy." "I think I will do without for the present," said Ralph. "Aweel," said Jock, "ye may, but I'm gaun to hae my breakfast a' the same, sillar or no sillar." In twenty minutes he was back by the dykeside, where he had left Ralph sitting, twining Winsome's purse through his fingers, and thinking on the future, and all that was awaiting him in Edinburgh town.
"Nae doot o' thot," remarked Peter, while Jock wisely nodded assent. "No' but what he'd find it gey hard to come up wi't in the sna' and a'!" added the latter, in a tone of unrestrained congratulation. They spoke in half-whispers, and never ceased their charitable ministrations the while. Not a word passed on the subject again, for in a few minutes the stranger had gained consciousness.
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