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So saying, he rode off; and Elshie, after looking at him with a scornful and indignant laugh, took spade and mattock, and occupied himself in digging a grave for his deceased favourite. A low whistle, and the words, "Hisht, Elshie, hisht!" disturbed him in this melancholy occupation. He looked up, and the Red Reiver of Westburnflat was before him.

The teasing tone woke a thousand memories of their boy and girl days, and Ruth's young lady reserve had changed to the frank camaraderie of former times when she shook her head at him, laughing, as he looked back at them from the stairs, up which he was following Grethi and his portmanteau to the room prepared for him.

"Obliged to it? You must be crazy. Good Lord! hear it scream." "Well, ain't life a scream?" Gilfoyle was a graceless sleeper and a surly waker. He forgot that he was a bridegroom. He sniffed, yawned, flopped, buried one ear in the pillow and pulled the cover over the other and almost instantly slept. His head on the pillow looked like some ugly, shaggy vegetable.

I tell you, Ailsa, Camilla is a good deal of a girl. . . . And I've promised to look out for her uncle keep an eye on old Lent, you know, which seems to comfort her a good deal when she begins crying "Oh. . . I thought Camilla didn't cry." "She cries a little now and then." "About her uncle?" "Certainly." Ailsa looked down at her ringless fingers.

He looked exactly as he had done on the previous day, he seemed even quite unconscious that there was anything unusual in their relations. As soon as they arrived at the station, he pointed to the ladies' waiting-room. "If you will go in and arrange your hair there," he said, "I will go and order breakfast and have a shave. I will be back here in about twenty minutes. You had better take this."

He looked out through the keyhole and saw a man wading through the water toward the desk. "I guess it's the night watchman," went on the Monkey in a whisper. "We don't have a night watchman in school," whispered back the Doll. "But we have a janitor. Maybe it's the janitor coming." And so it was.

I did n't know how to please you then, and I am far from supposing that I have learned now. But I entreat you to give me a chance." She was silent a while; her eyes wandered over the great prospect of Paris. "Do you know how you can please me now?" she said, at last. "By leaving me alone." Bernard looked at her a moment, then came straight back into the drawing-room and took his hat.

The apron was found to be eminently satisfactory, and Teresa promised to put it on the first thing in the morning, and I could see a few tears in her eyes as she said so. "And now," said my father, "you've shown us all these things which you have bought us with your five francs. Where is the present for yourself?" Paula looked at us all with dismay. "I declare," she said, "I forgot!

"You see how I mean it. "Then comes the navy-blue woman an' says it's time for their hot milk, an' they all looked up, kind o' hopeful. An' I see that the navy-blue one had got 'em trained into the i-dee that hot milk was an event.

He looked on the rider as on one whom he never had before seen, and, like his daughter and wife, opened the conversation with the regular query, "What's your wull wi' me, sir?" "I have a curiosity to ask some questions about this country," said the traveller, "and I was directed to you as an intelligent man who can answer them." "Nae doubt, sir," said Cuddie, after a moment's hesitation.