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I'd take it wery koind o' your master if he'd elp a traveller and his woife as envies no gentlefolk their good fortun, wi' a bit o' your broken wittles. He'd never know the want of it, nor more would you.
Everyone shook hands with me and congratulated me, and I think my head was turned a bit. But I'd been thinking for some time of doing a rash thing. I was newly married then, d'ye ken, and I was thinkin' it was time I made something of myself for the sake of her who'd risked her life wi' me. So that night I went home to her wi' a stern face. "Nance!" I said.
At this moment the door opened, and the voice of the officious Andrew was heard "A'm bringin' in the caunles Ye can light them gin ye like Can do is easy carried about wi' ane."
"Can ye walk, friend Tom?" "I think so." "Then up wi' you and along o' me into the 'Ring o' Bells'; I'll soon make ye comfortable, an' then you an' me will pray together, shall us, friend?" "As ye will!" mumbled Tom. So, having aided his late antagonist to rise, Jessamy turned to nod and smile at us. "Drive on, brothers," said he, "I must bide here awhile on the Lord's business, so drive on.
I doubtna but what the ready money he carried off wi' him might be another. But that makes comparatively but a sma' part o' your father's loss, though it might make the maist part o' Rashleigh's direct gain. The assets he carried off are of nae mair use to him than if he were to light his pipe wi' them.
We were doing fine wi' our talk, when a door burst open, and five beautiful children came running in. "Gie's a piece, granny," they clamored. "Granny is there no a piece for us? We're so hungry ye'd never ken " They stopped when they saw me, and drew awa', shyly. But they need no' ha' minded me. Nor did their granny; she knew me by then.
Oh, God has made Ugly Things wi' death in their mouths, Miss Darlin', an' He knows what they're for; but my poor Elsie! to have her blood changed in her before It was in July Mistress got her death, but she liv' till three week after my poor Elsie was born." She could speak no more. She had said enough.
'The fowk, than, ye see, 'at lo'ed the bonny man, gethert themsels aye thegither to hae cracks and newses wi' ane anither aboot him; and, as I was tellin ye, the fowk 'at didna care aboot him war that angert 'at they set upo' them, and jist wud hae nane o' them nor him.
Now this here gentleman was agent, I take it, for some big millinery shop in London, and come down here wi' boxes an' boxes o' bonnets, an' tokes, and all sorts o' female headgear as women goes about in " "In short, he was a commercial traveller," said Austin, very mildly. "You see, my dear Lubin, we have been talking of different things. I wasn't thinking of a gentleman who hawks haberdashery.
And now a shopkeeper has filled his window with royal Stuart tartans, and I am instantly a Jacobite. 'The Highland clans wi' sword in hand, Frae John o' Groat's to Airly, Hae to a man declar'd to stand Or fa' wi' Royal Charlie. 'Come through the heather, around him gather, Come Ronald, come Donald, come a'thegither, And crown your rightfu' lawfu' king, For wha'll be king but Charlie?
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