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Be he hurt, be he dead, I wull know it. Coom noo, oot wi' it, mon! D'ye hear me?" Andy could not resist an appeal and a command like this. There was something in the man's eyes, he said afterwards, that drew the truth right out of him. Bachelor Billy heard the story calmly, asked about the means being taken for the boy's rescue, and then sat for a few moments in quiet thought.
But, father, gien Francie come back wi' the same tale I dinna think he wull efter what I telled him, but he may what wud ye hae me say til 'im? 'Say what ye wull, lassie, sae lang as ye dinna lat him for a moment believe there's a grain o' possibility i' the thing. Ye see, Kirsty, 'Ye dinna imagine, father, I cud for ae minute think itherwise aboot it nor ye du yersel!
"Come to your senses, men!" he cried, advancing at the arrested crowd. "Come back, Mr. Baker!" called the master's quiet voice. He obeyed unwillingly. There was a minute of silence, then a deafening hubbub arose. Above it Archie was heard energetically: "If ye do oot ageen I wull tell!" There were shouts. "Don't!" "Drop it!" "We ain't that kind!"
"I want to know the first thing you would think about." "I canna say yet what the third thing wad be. Fower year at the college wad gie me time to reflec upon a hantle o' things." "I insist on knowing the first thing you would think about doing," cried Florimel, with mock imperiousness, but real tyranny. "Weel, my leddy, gien ye wull hae 't but hoo great a man wad ye be makin' o' me?"
What gars ye suppose a lass could hae her wull o' me in sic a w'y 's you? No 'at I believe ony lass wad behave like that! It's no like yersel' to fancy sae ill o' yer ain kin'! I'm sure ye didna discover thae things i' yerain hert! There's nae sic a lass." "What maitter whether there be sic a lass or no, sae lang as gien there was ane, she wad be ower muckle for ye?"
She and I are the only ones who ken the truth, and the only ones who wull ever ken it that much I'll say. But whenever we gave help she knew where the siller was going, and how it was to be spent. She knew that it would do real good, and not be wasted, as it would have been had I written a check for maist of those who came to me for aid. When you talk o' charity, Mrs.
"Becos next year he'll win it fra yo'. Oor Bob'll win it, little mon. Why? thot's why." The retort was greeted with a yell of applause from the sprinkling of Dalesmen in the crowd. But M'Adam swaggered away into the tent, his head up, the Cup beneath his arm, and Red Wull guarding his rear. "First of a' ye'll ha' to beat Adam M'Adam and his Red Wull!" he cried back proudly.
Wull ye tak' a bite wi' us? It's lang since ye broke breid in this hoose. 'I don't mind if I do, replied Walter, laying off his hat and drawing the arm-chair up to the fire. 'So you have never seen Liz? The person that saw her must have made a mistake. 'Wha was't? 'A lady. You don't know her. Have you never heard anything about her at all, then? 'No' a cheep.
"Thank ye, I wull that!" said he, and extracted the cigarette with muddy fingers. "Ye'll hae a sore leg, I'm thinking!" said I. "Ou aye," he admitted with the same grave smile, "but it's no sae muckle as a' that juist a wee bit skelpit I "
"Then it's doctrine wae's me, wae's me! I wuss it had been the lasses. What wull his faither say? Gin it had been ill-doin', he micht hae pitten it doon to the sins o' yer youth; but ill- doctrine he canna forgie. "John, John, indeed I cannot allow it. Besides, you're a sailor- man, an' even in Galloway they do not have kirns till the corn's ripe," replied Ralph with a smile.
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