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"Been standing in the sun." "I'd ignore the whole thing," said Laurence. "Ten to one it's a trick. A stunt put up by our adversaries." "In our private code, Laurence? No, no, no. I tink it wass well we take some precautions with this gentlemen who wass so like our guest. You will telephone to Mr. Phillips please that I would like some of those roads that lead into London made difficult."
Simpson preaches otherwise. Simpson loses Oregon to England, it may be." "You know much about affairs out in Oregon," I ventured again. "Now, I did not happen to be present at the little meeting last night." "I heard it all," he remarked carelessly, "until I went to sleep. I wass bored. I care not to hear of the splendor of England!"
Stewart, says my grandfather, 'it wass not in my mind to anger you whatefer. Only I thought, from your asking me if I had some money, that you might be looking for a wee bit of a loan, as many a gentleman has to do at times, and no shame to him at all, said my grandfather. "'A loan? says Tougal, sneering. 'A loan, is it? Where's your memory, Mr. McTavish?
"Loch Tay looked black angry as we came by its side in the morning, and I said to Janet: "'It iss the Dead Sea, and I shall be as Sodom and Gomorrah; but in the evening it wass as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and I heard the song of Moses and the Lamb sweeping over the Loch, but this wass still the sweetest word to me, 'Loose him and let him go."
The father laughed aloud at this simplicity on the part of the Englishman: "If we wass to keep in-doors in the bad weather, it would be all the winter we would be in-doors! There iss no day at all Sheila will not be out some time or other; and she is never so well as in the hard weather, when she will be out always in the snow and the frost, and hef plenty of exercise and amusement."
"And I know that Lady Macleod herself will be for shaking hands with you, and thanking you that you wass tek the care of the yacht." "I think I will stop at Greenock, Hamish. You know you can take her well on from Greenock. And will you go round the Mull, Hamish, or through the Crinan, do you think now?"
There wass the Almighty and my cow, and between them I hef not wanted, oh no: they just did." ""Janet, you will be forgetting your field that iss lying next the manse, and the people will be thinking that it iss a glebe; but I am telling them that it iss Janet Cameron's, who iss a fery experienced woman, and hass nefer seen the inside of a Moderate Kirk since the Disruption."
"Had the officer broken bread with him?" inquired Janet, anxiously. "No, he had come to quarter himself and his men on him, and said something rude about the Prince." "Your ancestor gave him back his word like a gentleman; but he would maybe hef to stay away for a while. Wass he of the chief's blood?" "Oh no, just a little laird, and he lost his bit of land, and we never saw the place again."
As Vye went down he saw Wass dart forward at a speed he wouldn't have believed a driven man could summon. The Veep lunged, escaping the shot the Hunter had no time to aim, rolled, and came up with the needler Vye had dropped. Then Hume, hampered by Peake's feeble clawing, met head on the swinging barrel of that weapon.
"I have not lived long enough in London to make me forget my friends or insult them," Sheila said with proud lips, and yet turning to the window to hide her face. "My lass, I did not mean any harm whatever," her father said gently: "I wass saying nothing against Mairi.
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