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For a while he forgot the evening's adventure, but eventually found himself listening to a discussion carried on over steaming tumblers of toddy in regard to certain predispositions of the always debatable sex. "Ye'll not always judge by appearances," said Sir Alan. "Ye'll mind the story o' the meenester's wife of Aiblinnoch.

"You found me a homeless waif, and you gave me a home and a father and mother." "Davy, ye'll not forget us when ye're great, I know ye'll not. Tis not in ye." She stood back and smiled at me through her tears. The light of heaven was in that smile, and I have dreamed of it even since age has crept upon me. Truly, God sets his own mark on the pure in heart, on the unselfish.

Keppel Stuart when they're sair sick and think they're dying; but ye'll never establish the practice you desairve, Mr. Keppel never until " "Until when, Mrs. M'Gregor?" "Until ye take heed of an auld wife's advice and find a new housekeeper." "Mrs. M'Gregor!" exclaimed Stuart with concern. "You don't mean that you want to desert me? After let me see how many years is it, Mrs. M'Gregor?"

So he said, "Na, gudeman, but I wanted to see yoursell." "Ay," said I, "and ye'll be wanting eilding now, or something to pit ower the winter?" "Na, na," quo' he, "it's no that I'm seeking; but ye tak an unco concern in that Captain Brown that was staying wi' you, d'ye no?" "Troth do I, Gabriel," says I; "and what about him, lad?"

"Ye'll pay for yer dinner first," he said submissively, but firmly, "and make yer remarks agin the food arter." The stranger flushed quickly, and his eye took an additional shade of red, but meeting Abner's serious gray ones, he contented himself with ostentatiously taking out a handful of gold and silver and paying his bill.

Ye'll have to win over that, lad; ye'll have to soople your back-bone, and think a wee pickle less of your dainty self; and ye'll have to try to find out that women-folk are nae grenadiers. But that can never be. To your last day you'll ken no more of women-folk than what I do of sow-gelding." I had never been used with such expressions from a lady's tongue, the only two ladies I had known, Mrs.

There'll be nae skaith to yoursel' if I keep ye here; far frae that, I think ye'll be a hantle better by it. There'll be nae skaith to the kintry just ae mair Hielantman hangit Gude kens, a guid riddance! On the ither hand, it would be considerable skaith to me if I would let you free.

Sind me to Parlimint, till I get within whisperin' distance of Misther Gladstone within whisperin' distance, d'ye mind me? Ye'll all get lashins of dhrink, an' free quarthers at the Castle. An' all ye have to do is to pay me, an' pay me well."

"I am positive that she went up river with you on this boat. What became of her after she left you?" "I told ye I don't know where she is. Ye'll have to go an' find her yerself, if yer so interested in her." Several times during the night Donaster attempted in vain to wrest the secret from Eben, and his failure made him angry.

"Well, avick, in good time still; but there's a blessed book, if you can get it, that has a prayer in it, named the Thirty Bays' Prayer, an' if ye jist repate that same, every day for thirty days fastin', there's no request ye'll ax from heaven, good, bad, or indifferent, but ye'll get. And now do you begrudge givin'me what I got?" "Not a bit," said I, "and I'll certainly look for the book."