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During the talk of which this is the substance they reached the Seaton, and Malcolm took her to see his grandfather. "Taal and faer and chentle and coot!" murmured the old man as he held her hand for a moment in his. With a start of suspicion he dropped it, and cried out in alarm, "She'll not pe a Cam'ell, Malcolm?" "Na, na, daddy far frae that," answered Malcolm.
Will you pe taking to him a trop of uisgebeatha?" "He taks naething o' that kin'," said Malcolm. He could not tell him that the madman, as men called him, lay wrestling in prayer with the Father of lights. The old highlander was not irreverent, but the thing would have been unintelligible to him.
Put your'll wait a few, and you'll pe seeing as well as herself. Och, her poy! her poy! O m'anam! Ta Lort pe praised! and she'll tie in peace, for he'll pe only ta one half of him a Cam'ell, and he'll pe safed at last, as sure as there's a heafen to co to and a hell to co from.
Bombazine and crape, a widow's cap; and a long; thick veil such is the modern English idea. Some widows even have the cap made of black cr^pe lisse, but it is generally of white.
She must co now, for her pipes will pe waiting for her." Malcolm feared he had ventured too far, for never before had his grandfather left him except for work. But the possibility he had started might do something to soften the dire endurance of his hatred. His thoughts turned to the new darkness let in upon his history and prospects.
The tankards were then charged afresh, and each man devoted himself to the allaying of his thirst for the next minute or two. Mine host had promised to give Faintly as Tolls the Evening Chime in the course of the evening, and was now called upon to redeem his pledge. "Ah," he remarked, "that vas alvays a faforite song of mine. And ton't you remember how font of it our frient Safareen used to pe?
Poulain is the image of Providence on earth I will have no more to do with you. You must do as I tell you " "Yes, Montame Zipod, he vill do vat you dell him," put in Schmucke; "he vants to lif for his boor friend Schmucke's sake, I'll pe pound."
There was but little life left in him, and it was not easy for him to explain his sorry plight when the words came only with hard-fought breathing, hoarse and low. "She will pe a pedlar," he said, "an' she will haf peen robbed and murdered.... Och, so little she will pe hafing, and now all gone.... Ochone, ochone!" Gently the laird put his questions to the dying man.
"Ye'll pe seein' her for yourself whateffer," he said "Ye'll no miss her in the waters 'twixt here an' Skye." He stooped and fumbled in his basket, presently bringing out of it a small bunch of pink bell-heather, the delicate waxen type of blossom which is found only in mossy, marshy places. "The shentleman wanted as much as I could find o' this," he said "An' he had it a' but this wee bittie.
"Robin," he said, "thou hast used me ill enough this day; but if you mean, like a frank fellow, to shake hands, and take a tussel for love on the sod, why I'll forgie thee, man, and we shall be better friends than ever." "And would it not pe petter to be cooed friends without more of the matter?" said Robin; "we will be much petter friendships with our panes hale than broken."
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