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"'Is Saunders deein', doctor? she cries. 'Ye promised tae wauken me; dinna tell me it's a' ower. "'There's nae deein' aboot him, Bell; ye're no tae lose yir man this time, sae far as a' can see. Come ben an' jidge for yersel'. "Bell lookit at Saunders, and the tears of joy fell on the bed like rain. "'The shadow's lifted, she said; 'he's come back frae the mooth o' the tomb.
"Fath, little lady, and I suppose I'm that same Dannul; but 'twas so long ago I've clane forgot aboot it entirely." "O, did you? Well, you was in the lions' den, Daniel, but they didn't bite you, you know, 'cause you prayed so long and so loud, with your winners up; and then God wouldn't let 'em bite." Old Daniel laid both his huge hands on Katie's head.
"She disna ken onything aboot aboot Annette aboot Annette an' me," a faint touch of red coming slowly up in his grey face. "I shall get word to her. I know the very man. I shall phone the Reverend Murdo Matheson." "Ay," said McNish, "he is the man." "Now, then," said Adrien, placing him in an easy chair, "you must rest there. Remember, I am keeping watch."
"You went to this trader's camp and ruined his goods?" "Yes." "Why?" The slim girl faced her judge steadily with eyes full of apprehension. "Fergus," she said in a low voice, "and my people." "What aboot them?" "These traders break the law. They sell liquor to Fergus and to " "Gin that's true, is it your business to ram-stam in an' destroy ither folks' property?
"An' prayin' again' waur enemies nor ever Joshua warstled wi'," returned his father; "for whan I think o' the rebound o' the spirit, even in this my auld age, that cudna but follow the mere liftin' o' the weicht o' debt, I feel as gien my sowl wad be tum'led aboot like a bledder, an' its auld wings tak to lang slow flaggin' strokes i' the ower thin aether o' joy.
Her fresh young eyes came between me and my book, and there was an end of Virgil. "O love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness, It winna let a body Gang aboot his business." I was wretched away from her, and only less wretched in her presence. The special cause of my woe was this: I was simply a little boy to Miss Glentworth. I knew it. I bewailed it.
I've talked a muckle i' this book aboot what I think. Do you know why? It's because I'm a plain man, and I think the way plain men think all ower this world. It was the war taught me that I could talk to folk as well as sing tae them. If I've talked tae much in this book you maun forgie me and you maun think that it's e'en yor ain fault, in a way.
I put 'im oot, an' haena seen 'im aboot ony main" He offered, however, to show the new-made mound on which he had found the dog. Leading the way past the church, he went on down the terraced slope, prolonging the walk with conversation, for the guardianship of an old churchyard offers very little such lively company as John Traill's.
With the words, "Thus with the year seasons return," Tibbie's attention grew fixed; and when the reader came to the passage, "So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward," her attention rose into rapture. "Ay, ay, lassie! That man kent a' aboot it! He wad never hae speired gin a blin' crater like me kent what the licht was. He kent what it was weel. Ay did he!"
Drumsheugh would even send his men to road-making, and apologise to the neighbours "juist reddin' up aboot the doors" while Saunders the foreman and his staff laboured in a shamefaced manner like grown-ups playing at a children's game.
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