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Dinna be after ony sic nonsense, or thrawing awa your life on sic an errand." "Wheesht, Janet, hinny wheesht," said he; "dinna be talking havers. Just stand you here there's not the smallest danger I'll be back to ye in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour at the utmost ye may tak my word upon that." "Andrew!" cried she, "are ye out o' yer mind a'thegither or do ye want to put me out o' mine!

An' Ah nebber would o' lef' you, only ma crippled brudder, Esek, an' his crippled wife done need me to tak' care ob dem. "But Esek's daid. An' here Ah is back, chile Ma soul an' body! ef dar ain' Mistah Brocky Day on crutches!" "Blanche! Mammy Blanche!" exclaimed the man with real warmth, as well as wonder, in his tone. "Is it really you?"

"Ye'll tak' charge here the noo, laddie?" asked McTurk, the grizzled chief trader, the following day when MacNair had concluded the inspection of his father's papers. "'Twad be what he'd ha' counselled!" "No," answered the young man shortly, and, without a word as to the finding of the lost mine, hurried Old Elk and Wee Johnnie Tamarack into a canoe and headed southward.

"The thundercloods are gatherin'," said Black with a grave shake of the head, as the party broke up and were about to separate for the night. "Tak' my word for 't, we'll hear mair o' this afore lang." We need scarcely add that on this occasion Andrew was a true prophet. Matters had now come to such a pass that it was no longer possible to defer the evil day of civil war.

Meg went to Winsome's little cupboard wardrobe in the wall and took down the old lilac-sprayed summer gown which she had worn when she first saw Ralph Peden. "Ye had better rise, my lassie, an' tak' that message yersel'!" said Meg dryly. So obediently Winsome rose.

Once more set the right way up, Ibsen softly thanked his saviours with much frugality of phrase "Tak, mine Herrer!" tenderly touched an abraded surface of his top-hat, and marched forth homeward, unperturbed. His silence had a curious effect on those in whose company he feasted; it seemed to hypnotise them. The great Danish actress, Mrs.

The yellow gas-light gave his face such a sardonic aspect that Sandy turned pale. "Wha's death, man?" Mr. Traill kept his own counsel, but at the door he turned: "You'll no' be remembering the bittie terrier that lived in the kirkyard?" The light of boyhood days broke in Sandy's grin. "Ay, I'll no' be forgetting the sonsie tyke. He was a deil of a dog to tak' on a holiday.

When it was ended Clementina said nothing, Annie Mair said "Hech, sirs!" and Lizzy, with a great sigh, remarked, "The deil maun be in a' thing whaur God hasna a han', I'm thinkin'." "Ye may tak yer aith upo' that," rejoined Malcolm. It was a custom in Peter's boat never to draw the nets without a prayer, uttered now by one, now by another of the crew.

'Steal them, answered Shargar, struggling to get away from the grasp still upon his collar. 'We micht be hanged for that. 'Weel, Robert, I'll tak a' the wyte o' 't. Gin it hadna been for you, I micht ha' been hangt by this time for ill doin': for your sake I'll be hangt for weel doin', an' welcome. Ha! ha! ha!

A' this I thocht o' doin, I say; but, on reflection, I changed my mind, an' determined no to gie mysel ony such trouble, but just to let things tak their course, an' trust to my ain conduct, an' the weel-kent respectability o' my faither, for the guid opinion o' the warld.