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I do not know that the fact has anything to do with Her Majesty's peculiar love for Scotland, but she came very near being born in that part of her dominions the Duke of Kent having proposed a little while before her birth to take a place in Lanarkshire, belonging to a friend. Had he done so his little daughter would have been a Highland lassie. I don't think the Queen would have objected.
"So she is; but he's had her out on a Western ranch since she was a bit of a lass. Quite a romance!" "Really?" "Yes. Her mother was a play-actress. Ran off with an English nobleman. Left the captain and the lassie in the lurch, and died before she reached England. I had the story from the purser." "Where's the girl going now?"
"The sun had risen," declaimed Phillis, triumphantly taking up the tale; "and with one wild sheriek of disappointed rage the Kelpie vanished away, and the wee lassie was saved!" There was a rapt pause after this exciting anecdote. Then Phillis remarked "Uncle Robin, let's write that story down, and then I can get people to read it to me." "Why not write it down for yourself?"
I wonder whether you would sing an old favorite of mine 'Oh, why did ye gang, lassie?" Erica at once complied, and there was such pathos in her low, clear voice, that tears stood in the eyes of more than one listener.
Vandyke received me with effusion. It was not the first time she had seen me since my marriage, but it was the first time she had seen me alone. "My dear!" she exclaimed, turning me about till my unwilling face met the light, "is this the wild-wood lassie I gave into Mr. Allison's keeping a week ago!" "It is the house!" I excitedly gasped, "the empty, lonely, echoing house!
Duncan McClean turned from her drew his hand away and walked to open the slit shutters. A moment later he came back, once more master of himself. "As things are, dear," he said gently, "how would it be possible for us to get away?" "'We canna gang awa'!" she quoted, with a smile. "NO, lassie. We must stay here and be brave. This matter is not in our hands. We must wait, and watch, and see.
"But, lassie it's no' death. There's a great difference. And as for seeing him again, that is as the Lord wills. Anyway, it doesna become you to cast a slight on your father's judgment, as though he had decided unwisely in this matter. Do you no' think it will cost him something to part from his first-born son?" "But, Janet, why need he part from him?
Having to get out very quickly, Bobby did a forbidden thing: swiftly and noisily he dashed around the dark place, and there arose such wild squawkings and rushings of wings as to bring the gude-wife out of the house in alarm. "Lassie, I canna hae the bittie dog in wi the broodin' chuckies!" She flung the door wide. Bobby shot through, and into Elsie's outstretched arms.
For the days that are coming and going, I charge you, Christina Binnie, never to name to mortal creature the whereabouts of the money I have shown you." "Your words are in my heart, Andrew. They will never pass my lips." "Then that is enough of the siller. I have had a happy day with Sophy, and O the grace of the lassie! And the sweet innocence and lovesomeness of her pretty ways!
"Thank you," she murmured uncertainly. "I couldn't go without it." "Thet ye could na', lassie," responded Mrs. MacFayden heartily. "Noo wull I send the doctor up?" "Just in a minute when I have seen my father " Georgiana ran into his room from her own. A deep embrace, a lingering kiss while James Stuart looked out of the window, a lump suddenly appearing from nowhere in his sturdy throat.
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