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"He would be all in his good claes," said the lad, "and the sword on him," and he told me how the two of them had carried a kist through the hill and down behind the Big House "there would still be a light in the young leddy's chamber," for Bryde McBride had stood looking at it, and talking in the Gaelic.
If your lairdship will come your ways hame at ance, you will find the sinful pair in me leddy's boudoir." The note had neither name nor date.
But so soon as the servant took hold of a horse to harness him for the taxed-cart, an officer touched him on the shoulder "My friend, you must let that beast alone he's down in the schedule." "What!" said Robert, "am I not to take my master's horse to go my young leddy's errand?" "You must remove nothing here," said the man of office, "or you will be liable for all consequences."
The leddy's actin' under orders." And not only was O'Flynn behind him but Stuart. "Sign to Mrs. MacLeod that she may go," said that officer, "but not for long. Shake your head, seem doubtful. Then take your hat and wave it to the Cherokee wench, as if you relent for her sake!"
"I think likely it is. Can you tell me how to get there?" "Thim Kinzers is foine people. The widdy married one of the gurrels to Misther Morris." "But how can I get to the house?" "Is it there ye're afther goin'? Hey, Michael, me boy, bring up yer owld rattlethrap, and take the leddy's thrunk. She'll be goin' to the Kinzer place. Sharp, now."
Those who know my grandmother do not need to be told that she took possession of our house and all that was therein, of Irma so completely that practically I was only allowed to bid my wife "Good-morning" under the strictest supervision, and of Mistress Pathrick who, after one sole taste of my grandmother's tongue, had retired defeated with the muttered criticism that "that tongue o' the auld leddy's could ding a' the Luckenbooths aye, and the West Bow as weel."
Ye ken, Jenny, Halliday aye threeps he had a promise frae yoursell." "Halliday's a liar, and ye're naething but a gomeril to hearken till him, Cuddie. And then for this leddy's choice, lack-a-day! ye may be sure a' the gowd Mr. Morton has is on the outside o' his coat; and how can he keep Leddy Margaret and the young leddy?" "Isna there Milnwood?" said Cuddie.
She imagined him with a certain amiable aimlessness turning his pony to one side so as not to knock down a danger sign, while he rode straight over a precipice. What would have happened if Leddy had really drawn? she asked herself. Probably her deliverer would have regarded the muzzle of Leddy's gun in studious vacancy before a bullet sent him to kingdom come.
He was for bangin' into the auld Tower straight away and shootin' Dobson if he tried to stop them. 'Havers, say I, 'let them break their teeth on the Tower, thinkin' the leddy's inside, and that'll give us time, for Heritage is no' the lad to surrender in a hurry." "Where are they now?" "In the Hoose o' Dalquharter, and a sore job I had gettin' them in.
He found Miss Aline with a letter in her hand and a flush of excitement on her face, which the young man was too occupied with his own affairs to seek to trace to its cause. "Why, Louis Raincy," cried the old lady, "is it officer's manners to come headfirst into a leddy's room like a bullock breaking dykes? I have seen you do better than that before ever you put on the king's coat."
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