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He was clad in a strikingly flashy plaid coat, had a little wizened, good-natured face and seemed to have been drinking. The young man with the beard explained Sam's identity, taking the sleeping man by the shoulder and shaking him vigorously. "Wake up, Skipper! There's a good story here!" he shouted. "The union has thrown out the mail-order strike leader!"
"It's the wee earl, ye ken," and one and all treated with the utmost respect the tiny figure wrapped in a plaid, so that nothing was visible except a small child's face, which always smiled at sight of other children. It was surprising in how few days the clachan, and indeed the whole neighborhood, grew accustomed to the appearance of the earl and his sad story.
'And, said cousin Holman, scarcely waiting for her husband to finish his sentence, 'tell him there is new milk and fresh eggs to be had for the asking; it's lucky Daisy has just calved, for her milk is always as good as other cows' cream; and there is the plaid room with the morning sun all streaming in. Phillis said nothing, but looked as much interested in the project as any one.
Go in there; take Calabash's cloak to wrap yourself in." "But " "I wish it." In a second, La Louve was enveloped in a plaid cloak, and returned. "For me, to run the risk of drowning!" repeated Martial, looking at her with pride. "No risk! A poor girl was almost drowned. I saved her. On reaching the island " "You saved her also where is she?" "Below with the children; they are taking care of her."
I saw the glance that fell, scarcely touching, on my plain plaid frock. I was silly enough to feel it too. I was unused to scorn. St. Clair returned to the window, perhaps sensible that she had gone a little too far. "I can tell you now," she said, "what that old Miss Cardigan has got in her house just as well as if I saw it." "Did you ever go in?" said Lansing eagerly.
It is too dark for people to notice us, and we shall not be very cold." "No, my darling;" and he slipped his plaid round her shoulders, and his arm with it. She looked up pitifully. "Don't be vexed with me, Robert, dear; I have thought it all over; weighed it on every side; nights and nights I have been awake pondering what was right to do. And it always comes to the same thing." "What?"
Not that he was ugly or harsh-favoured, he was too genial for either; he was simply well-favoured enough to pass in a fair, as the saying goes, which is a midway between Apollo and plain Donald But what with a jacket and vest all creased for the most apparent reasons, a plaid frayed to ribbons in dashing through the wood of Dalness, brogues burst at the toes, and a bonnet soaked all out of semblance to itself by rains, he appeared more common.
A grey plaid shawl swathed his shoulders, and the fringe of this dripped too, as he gained the deck and stepped briskly aft, without so much as a word to the men standing at the head of the ladder, to whom after a minute the mate called down. "Sam Lloyd!" "Aye, aye, sir!" "What did 'e say?" "Nothin', sir."
Was it a shepherd's plaid cloth cap, of the kind Tom wears, which I saw on the head of some visitor who was sitting almost out of sight on the seaward side of the bank? Such small things bring people and things before us sometimes, and my thoughts wandered to Scarborough for a few minutes, and I wondered what Tom was doing at that moment.
Whether or not the obnoxious little chap had overheard, or from some hidden coign had watched my test of the fire-extinguisher I don't know, but when he came to my den that night he was amply protected against the annihilating effects of the liquid by a flaring plaid mackintosh, with a toque for his head, and the minute I started the thing squirting he turned his back and received the charge harmless on his shoulders.
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