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As for their coin, every one knows the couplet 'How can the rogues pretend to sense? And now the report of a gun was heard, and a sportsman was seen, with his dogs and attendant, at the upper end of the glen. 'Shough, said Dugald Mahony, 'tat's ta Chief. 'It is not, said Evan imperiously. 'Do you think he would come to meet a Sassenach Duinhe-wassel in such a way as that?
Caroline is terrified by this remark which reveals Adolphe's profound rascality. "He supposed, sir, that you would have pity upon the mother of a family, upon her children " "Ta, ta, ta," returns the syndic. "You have come to influence my independence, my conscience, you want me to give the creditors up to you: well, I'll do more, I give you up my heart, my fortune!
"There's the auld piper again!" said one of the group, a young woman. "Haud ye yer tongue, lass," rejoined an elderly woman beside her. "There's mair things nor ye ken, as the Beuk says. There's een 'at can see an' een 'at canna, an' een 'at can see twise ower, an' een 'at can see steikit what nane can see open." "Ta poat! ta poat of my chief!" cried the seer.
The curragh which was promised might be a man, a horse, a cart, or chaise; and no more could be got from the man with the battle-axe but a repetition of 'Aich ay! ta curragh.
She stopped for a moment. 'Ay, lass! Philip read it thee, and whatten might it say? 'Only that he had an offer for Haytersbank Farm, and would set mother free to go as soon as t' crops was off t' ground. She sighed a little as she said this. "'Only!" sayst ta?
He stammered out her naive, "Julie!" and then he stopped. "Oui, ta Julie! Petit ingrat! how I have sought for thee! how I have hungered for the sight of thee! That monster Savarin! he would not give me any news of thee. That is ages ago. But at least Frederic Lemercier, whom I saw since, promised to remind thee that I lived still. He did not do so, or I should have seen thee n'est ce, pas?"
Lake seemed to oppose him, and evidently it took vehemence and argument on Withers's part to make the Mormon tractable. But Withers won him over, and then he called Shefford to his side. "You fellows got to be good friends," he said. "You'll have charge of my pack-trains. Nas Ta Bega wants to go with you.
The two men looked a moment in each other's face, and Sandy saw in Ragon's something that made him say, "She'll pat Sandy safe ta night, an' that will mak her shure o' ta lass she's seeking far." There was no time for parley; Ragon's evil nature was strongest, and he answered, "There is a cellar below my house, thou knows it weel."
"Aigh! aigh!" he sighed at length, yielding the contest between his legs and the lungs of the lad "aigh! aigh! she'll die happy! she'll die happy! Hear till her poy, how he makes ta pipes speak ta true Gaelic! Ta pest o' Gaelic, tat! Old Tuncan's pipes 'll not know how to be talking Sassenach. See to it! see to it! He had put to blow in at ta one end, and out came ta reel at the other.
The half-strangled man gasped out a few incoherent words that his livid, guilty face made unnecessary. Shefford gave him a shove and he fell into the dust at the feet of the Navajo. "Gentlemen, I leave him to Nas Ta Bega," said Shefford, with a strange change from passion to calmness.
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