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"She micht hae kenned her secret would be safe wi' me!" "I micht hae said the same, but for the w'y ye spak o' her this vera meenut! Whaur is she, mother? Whaur's Isy?" "'Deed, she's made a munelicht flittin o' 't!" "I telled ye she would never tell upo me! Hed she ony siller?" "Hoo can I tell?" "Did ye pey her ony wages?" "She gae me no time!
"Bill Speer up on the hill there telled me jist now, that they druv a big deer down from the back-bone clear down to this here hollow just above, last night arter dark. Bill shot at him, and kind o' reckoned he hot him but I guess he's mistaken leastwise he jumped strong enough jist neaw! but which on you was 't 'at killed him?" "I did," exclaimed Tom, "I did by !"
"And when I telled him how the grete stack of chimneys fell not half-an-hour after, over the very place where they had passed, and how they were in such a hurry to be off that they jumped the edge for fear us should stop them or speak to them.
"It's the only place I hinna telled you o'," she said. "Had you forget, it mother?" Forget the Den! Ah, no, Tommy, your mother had not forgotten the Den. "And, listen, Elspeth, in the Den there's a bonny spring of water called the Cuttle Well. Had you forgot the Cuttle Well, mother?" No, no; when Jean Myles forgot the names of her children she would still remember the Cuttle Well.
Though why he couldn't drive his h'own team, if he'd such an 'ankering for the ribbands, he muttered to Dingee as he got down, 'I'm sure is a perplexity. 'Wanted to drive Missee Hazel, said Dingee, climbing like a cat into the other conveyance, and proceeding to drive Mr. Rollo's man nearly out of his wits. 'You never does sound de gen'lman, Mas' Gotham. Telled you so long ago.
But she were so little an' young-like an' afeard, and I telled her that night I telled her when she whispered that she were a goin' to have a baby, and said as how she couldn't stand bein' hurt I says, 'Midge darlin', do it hurt the grass to grow jest 'cause the winds bend it double?
I telled him about the stoop, an' the chairs, an' the ladder for posies to run up on, an' I said somethin' about cubberds and settles, an' other thingembobs that have come into my mind; an' says he: 'Jim, be ye goin' to splice? An' says I: 'If so be I can find a little stick as'll answer, it wouldn't be strange if I did. 'Well, says he, 'now's yer time, if ye're ever goin' to, for the hay-day of your life is a passin' away. An' says I: 'No, ye don't.
'A only telled yo' t' account like for me bein' at a loose end i' Monkshaven. My sister, her as lived at Dale End an' is a widow, has comed int' town to live; an' a'm lodging wi' her, an' jobbin' about.
He did not remember that Vandecar had come for his girl; he had in mind only the wee, sweet squatter woman so long dead. "Didn't the warden tell ye that I hit him, Mister," he groaned, "and that I smashed the keeper when they telled me about her, and and that the strait-jacket busted my collarbone when I was tryin' to get out to her?"
He knew both the voice and the laugh, and, turning, saw Mrs Catanach, seated, apparently busy with her knitting, in the shade of the rock. "Weel?" he said curtly. "Weel! Set ye up! Wha's yon ye was play actin' wi' oot yonner?" "Wha telled ye to speir, Mistress Catanach?" "Ay, ay, laad! Ye'll be abune speykin' till an auld wife efter colloguin' wi' a yoong ane, an' sic a ane!
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