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"No, faither," she answered. "I hadna the bawbees." "When did ye get back?" he asked. "Just after just after " Her eyes flickered over to John, as if she were afraid of mentioning his name. "Oh, just after this gentleman! But there's noathing strange in tha-at; you were always after him. You were born after him, and considered after him; he aye had the best o't.
"Of course," he added, "we've no right to find fault wi' the Redskins for punishin' the murderer arter their own fashion, though we might wish they had bin somewhat more merciful " "No, we mightn't," interrupted Crux stoutly. "The Flint got off easy in my opinion. If I had had the doin' o't, I'd have roasted him alive." "No, you wouldn't, Crux," returned Ben, with a benignant smile.
"Where is the silly bairn gaun?" said Dumbiedikes; and, laying hold of her hand, he led her into the house. "It's no that I didna think o't before," he said, "but it stack in my throat." Thus speaking to himself, he led her into an old-fashioned parlour, shut the door behind them, and fastened it with a bolt.
"And Ay'se marked doon three woodcock two more beside yon big un, that measter Draa made siccan a bungle of and all t' quail every feather on um doon t' bog meadow yonner ooh! but we'se mak grand sport o't!" interposed Tim, now busily employed stringing bird after bird up by the head, with loops and buttons in the game-bag! "Well done then, all!" said Harry.
"It is nothing that you have done, this time. The top and tail o't is this that I am sniffing about here, and waiting for poor Boldwood's farm, with a thought of getting you some day." "Getting me! What does that mean?" "Marrying of 'ee, in plain British. You asked me to tell, so you mustn't blame me."
But I've niver spent a boddle o't. Mony a time have I been tempit, an' mony a time wad I hae gi'en in to the temptation, but for a certain lass ca'd Janet, that's been an angel, it's my belief, sent doon frae heeven to keep me frae gawin to the deevil a'thegither. But be that as it may, I've brought the siller to them that owns it by right, an' so my conscience is clear o't at lang last."
Robert clambered on to the top of this car, and presently found himself confronted by a gentleman splendid in appearance but of homely speech who waved bundles of tickets in his face, and inquired tersely "Penny or tippeny? or transfair?" "I am seeking the Dalry Road," said Robert cautiously. "Which end o't?" "I couldna say." "Ca' it a penny," said the conductor.
"Whats' a' this o't?" exclaimed Mr. Anderson, pushing into the centre of the crowd by which the two women were surrounded. "O, the hizzy!" exclaimed his wife, who had, at the instant, about a yard of her antagonist's hair rolled about her hand. "It's a' aboot your nichtkep, John, and her curst jeely mug. A' aboot your nichtkep, and the jeely mug."
They were awa for about a month, and I firmly believe that Jeannie was a great deal the better o't. But it was a dear bathing to me on mony accounts for a' that. Margaret was an altered lassie a'thegither. She used to be as blithe as a lark in May, and now there was nae gettin' her to do onything; but she sat couring and unhappy, and seighin' every handel-a-while, as though she were miserable.
Have ye left the works of man, the houses and the cities that are but clay and dust, like those that built them and are ye come here among the peaceful hills, and by the quiet waters, that will last whiles aught earthly shall endure, to destroy each other's lives, that will have but an unco short time, by the course of nature, to make up a lang account at the close o't?
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