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Lauriston a-going to marry Zillah, and Mr. Purdie's a-fixing it up with Levendale's governess, and oh, Mrs. Goldmark, ain't I worshipped you every time I come to eat my dinner in your eating house? Ain't you the loveliest woman in all Paddington. Say the word, Mrs. Goldmark don't you see I'm like as if I was that hungry I could eat you?" Then Mrs.
Yet occasionally, in olden days, a salmon big as Tam Purdie's muckle kipper was got by rod and line. In 1815 Rob Kerss, the famous "Rob o' the Trows," hooked a leviathan in Makerstoun Water the biggest fish, he said, that ever he saw; so big that it took even so great a master as Rob hours to land, and left him "clean dune oot."
Fortunately she is sweet-spirited with it all, or it would have been unbearable. She and her husband John, and the baby, wee Jeannie, with Macgregor were going out to dinner at "Aunt Purdie's," who was "rale genteel an' awfu' easy offendit."
"Come to the hotel with me," continued Purdie. "I want to talk to you about something." But when they reached the hotel, all thought of conversation was driven out of Purdie's mind for the moment. The hall-porter handed him a note, remarking that it had just come. Purdie's face flushed as he recognized the handwriting: he turned sharply away and tore open the envelope.
Weel, weel, preserve me frae the female sect! I suppose ye'll be for gi'ein' yer ain folk a treat for a change. 'They're a' at Rothesay, at Granpaw Purdie's, Macgregor returned shortly, now half glad that he had let the letter go. It was not a harsh letter, yet neither was it a humble one.
Killick, with a dry chuckle, "Now, as I understand it, from young Mr. Purdie's account, you're all greatly excited at present over the undoubted connection with this Praed Street mystery of one Mr. Spencer Levendale, who is, I believe, a very rich man, a resident in one of the best parts of this district, and a Member of Parliament.
But Clara Britton leveled her eyes at him, as if the thing he had produced was not at all the thing he had led up to. "Still, unless there was enormous pressure somewhere and in this case I don't see where I can't see what Mr. Purdie's keenness will do toward getting it back." Harry played a little sulkily with the proposition, but he would not pick up the thread he had dropped.
'Oh, I know all about it how you protected your friend William with your wounded body Macgregor's hand went to his head. 'I suppose I'm sober, he muttered. 'Wha was stuffin' ye wi' a' this, Aunt Purdie? Aunt Purdie's manner was almost sprightly as she whispered 'Your betrothed! 'Ma what? 'Christina, her own self, told me. So there you are, young man!
And suddenly, as Lauriston was eating his second sandwich, the Inspector rose, quietly walked to the counter and bending over it, spoke to one of the white- aproned men behind. "The game's begun!" whispered Lauriston. "Look!" But Purdie's eyes were already fixed on the Pilmanseys, whom he recognized as important actors in the drama about to be played.
To do this I decided to sell my bullock team and horses, as I did not know how long I should remain. In the meantime, another diggings called Purdie's Camp broke out forty miles up the river, so I purchased some more stores and engaged a horse team to carry all the goods there at £40 per ton. The only grass on the road was that known as "turpentine."
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