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The other Shaws of the clan fought long and ably for its recovery, but though they were helped by their kinsmen, the Mackintoshes, and though good Scotch blood dyed the gray walls of the fortress for many generations, the castle never again came into the hands of the Shaws.
"He never said muckle when he was young. He'll never have spoken muckle of me?" "I never knew, sir, till you told it me yourself, that he had any brother." "Dear me, dear me!" said Ebenezer. "Nor yet of Shaws, I dare say?" "Not so much as the name, sir," said I. "To think o' that!" said he. "A strange nature of a man!"
Meanwhile, I had opened Miss Grant's, and could not withhold an exclamation. "Catriona," I cried, forgetting, the first time since her father was arrived, to address her by a handle, "I am come into my kingdom fairly, I am the laird of Shaws indeed my uncle is dead at last." She clapped her hands together, leaping from her seat.
What's he to Daddy Darwin of t' Dovecot yonder?" "He owns t' Dovecot. Did ye see t' lass?" "Aye. Shoo's his missus, I reckon?" "Aye." "What did they call her?" "Phoebe Shaw they called her. And if she'd been my lass but that's nother here nor there, and he's got t' Dovecot." "Shaw? They're old standards, is Shaws. Phoebe? They called her mother Phoebe. Phoebe Johnson. She were a dainty lass!
But would it not be simpler for you to write him a few words in black and white?" "And that is an excellent observe, Mr. Balfour of Shaws," says Alan, drolling with me; "and it would certainly be much simpler for me to write to him, but it would be a sore job for John Breck to read it. He would have to go to the school for two-three years; and it's possible we might be wearied waiting on him."
I'm wae to leave ye here, wanting me." "Have with ye, then!" says I. "Do ye gang back where you were stopping." "De'il a fear!" said Alan. "They were good folks to me, but I think they would be a good deal disappointed if they saw my bonny face again. Which makes me the keener for your company, Mr. David Balfour of the Shaws, and set ye up!
Did ye niver hear how the docthor walked intil the big meetin' an' in five minutes made the iditor av the Pioneer an' the town site agent an' that bunch look like last year's potaty patch fer ould shaws, wid the spache he gave thim?" "No," said Ben, "I didn't 'ear any such thing, I didn't." "Well, thin, go out into society, me bhoy, an' kape yer ears clane."
Alfred Lyttelton, Miss Lena Ashwell, the Bernard Shaws, the Wilfred Meynells, the H.G. Wellses, the Sidney Webbs; and leaving uninstanced a number of other delightful, warm-blooded, pleasant-voiced, natural-mannered people the Rossiters. Or at least, Michael Rossiter. For although you could tolerate for his sake Mrs.
But after two, or maybe three, had given me the same look and the same answer, I began to take it in my head there was something strange about the Shaws itself. The better to set this fear at rest, I changed the form of my inquiries; and spying an honest fellow coming along a lane on the shaft of his cart, I asked him if he had ever heard tell of a house they called the house of Shaws.
The parts seemed reversed now, and it was Polly who gave, Fanny who received; for where everything seemed strange and new to Fan, Polly was quite at home, and every one of the unfashionable domestic accomplishments now came into play, to the comfort of the Shaws, and the great satisfaction of Polly.
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