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"Yes, he will, if he does not know I am there." The plot succeeded, though only partially, for so quick was the blind man's sense of hearing that in the middle of the conversation he said, sharply, "Somebody's ahint the dyke!" and he caught Grizel by the shoulder. "It's the Painted Lady's lassie," he said when she screamed, and he stormed against Tommy for taking such advantage of his blindness.
The cobby, brown dog, seeming of many breeds, is from the land o' the Tykes Merry, on whom the Yorkshiremen are laying as though they loved him. And Jess, the wiry black-and-tan, is the favorite of the men of of the Derwent and Dove. Tupper's big blue Rasper is there; Londesley's Lassie; and many more too many to mention: big and small, grand and mean, smooth and rough and not a bad dog there.
"Well," wheedled Nan, "wouldn't it please you really?" "We can't always do as we please in this world." Nan grimaced. "Hoots, lassie! Now you're talking like Aunt Eliza." Penelope continued brushing her hair serenely and vouchsafed no answer. Nan renewed the attack. "It amounts to this, then that I've got to get married in order to let Ralph marry you!" "Of course it doesn't!"
"How is this?" he said to Bell: "are you alone? what's become of your nurse?" "Oh, she had to gang hame for an hour or twa, but I'm no my lane: a lassie offered to bide wi' me till Ann cam back." "That's right," said the doctor, and he talked for a little. "Now," he said, "you're better to-day than you were yesterday, just admit that."
With the words, "Thus with the year seasons return," Tibbie's attention grew fixed; and when the reader came to the passage, "So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward," her attention rose into rapture. "Ay, ay, lassie! That man kent a' aboot it! He wad never hae speired gin a blin' crater like me kent what the licht was. He kent what it was weel. Ay did he!"
"Of what is it he speaks?" inquired Mr. Manners. "Oh, sir!" answered his mother, "his thoughts are wandering. I canna think he killed the lassie he loved." "Ay, mother," said the youth, with an effort, "this hand did it. O fool! cut it off off with it it is not my hand my hand never would have done it. Oh oh mother Jessie." Mr. Manners was dumb with amazement.
And you must take your seam with you, Katie, my lassie," added the old lady, as no dissenting frown from the grandfather followed her first words. "And maybe Miss Elizabeth has a new stitch, or some other new thing to teach you. These things are easy carried about with a person, and they ay have a chance to come in use sometime.
After dinner the bairns, who had been sitting at the door in the light of a big fire, were brought in, and prayers were conducted by Mary. On that occasion, when Miss Amess was bidding her "Good-bye," she said to her, "Lassie, keep up your pluck."
"'Go upon no such an errand, said your mother to both of us; 'for there is blood upon baith your brows, and there is death in your path. "'Havers, lassie! cried her faither angrily; 'are ye at your randering again? what blood do ye see on their brows mair than I do, or what death can ye perceive in their path?
Would ye have had the lassie leave the burden on my mind that she'd gone out of her father's house penniless? 'Twas the one kindness she did me to take the gold." One evening Alec Trenholme sat down to write to his brother. Bates had urged him to write, and, after a due interval, of his own accord he wrote.
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