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Her hand shook, and for a moment she let the ball of paper lie there. "Open't up," cried Leeby, who was in the secret. "What 's't?" asked Hendry, drawing nearer. "It's juist a bit paper Jamie flung at me," said Jess, and then she unfolded it. "It's a five-pound note!" cried Hendry. "Na, na, oh keep us, no," said Jess; but she knew it was. For a time she could not speak.
There are still seen, scattered in various places, the hewn stones of King Umi, na pohaku kulai a Umi. It is natural to suppose that they used to hew these hard, and very large stones with other tools than those of Hawaiian origin. Iron must have been known in the time of Umi, and its presence is explained by the wrecks of ships which ocean currents may have drifted ashore.
"There was the lawsuit to be ended," said Jenny readily, "forby many other family arrangements." "Na, but," said Cuddie, "there was another reason forby; for the young leddy " "Whisht, hand your tongue, and sup your sowens," said his wife; "I see the gentleman's far frae weel, and downa eat our coarse supper. I wad kill him a chicken in an instant."
Hazlewood had sent for a surgeon, and proposed that she should be lifted in the meantime to the nearest cottage. But the patient exclaimed with great earnestness, "Na, na, na! To the Kaim o' Derncleugh the Kaim o' Derncleugh the spirit will not free itself o' the flesh but there."
"I ken naething else, as the French folk say. But this is a dreidful case of heids or tails. O! if I could but ken where your gentry were!" "Alan," said I, "this is no' like you. It's got to be now or never." "This is no' me, quo' he," sang Alan, with a queer face betwixt shame and drollery, "Neither you nor me, quo' he, neither you nor me, Wow, na, Johnnie man! neither you nor me."
I am na likely to forget it!" sharply answered Rose Cameron. "Well, my dear young lady, the marriage is on again." "Eh!" exclaimed Rose Cameron, springing up. "Yes, my dear young lady. You know I always take time to look over the morning papers that are left at the house for you, and this morning I read that a grand marriage would take place at St.
"I did na' think that the man was in earnest, an' I remonstrated with him on his folly an' injustice. This ended in a sharp quarrel atween us, and I left him to gang his ain gate, an' went to live with my uncle, who kept a blacksmith's forge in the village.
To quieten th' gruff husband, and stop him if he rated her, I could na help slipping another sixpence under th' loaf, and then we set off again. Last look I had o' that woman she were quietly wiping her eyes wi' the corner of her apron, as she went about her husband's breakfast. But I shall know her in heaven."
Na, na, laddie! frae my verra hert, I wuss he may be that affrontit wi' himsel' 'at he canna sae muckle as lift up's een to h'aven, but maun smite upo' 's breist an' say, 'God be mercifu' to me a sinner! That's my curse upo' him, for I wadna hae 'im a deevil. Whan he comes to think that shame o' himsel', I'll tak him to my hert, as I tak the bairn he misguidit.
Lomax telled me she went " "Mrs. Lomax what Mrs. Lomax?" "Her as lives in Brabazon Street. She telled me my poor wench went to the workhouse fra there. I'll not speak again the dead; but if her father would but ha' letten me but he were one who had no notion no, I'll not say that; best say nought. He forgave her on his death-bed. I daresay I did na go th' right way to work."
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