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He looked up and saw his aunt; the old dignified, sensible expression on her face, exactly like her former self, composed, strong, and calm. 'My lass, said she, sitting down by Philip, and gently taking her out of his arms into her own. 'Lass, bear up! we mun bear up, and be agait on our way to him, he'll be needing us now. Bear up, my lass! the Lord will give us strength.
She's white and fine, I'll warrant; see her move like a swan on the waters! Ay, she's a lovesome lass, and Helmar thought so, too." "What are you saying of Mary Strathsay? Who don't think she's a lovesome lass?" "Helmar don't now, I'll dare be sworn." "Helmar?" "Hush, now! don't get that maggot agait again. My mother'd ban us both, should her ears side this way."
"Donald, ye auld skaicher," said Maclachlan, "get your bairns agait. The Maclachlans are going to be last, where they should be first, at the intaking of a town, but the Prince, God bless him, will think me balm in Gilead when he sees the reinforcements I bring." He was in high feather, and it interested me to watch in another the tonic effect of Margaret's presence.
He looked up and saw his aunt; the old dignified, sensible expression on her face, exactly like her former self, composed, strong, and calm. 'My lass, said she, sitting down by Philip, and gently taking her out of his arms into her own. 'Lass, bear up! we mun bear up, and be agait on our way to him, he'll be needing us now. Bear up, my lass! the Lord will give us strength.
No one had seen him, or knowed his name. 'Yo' niver heared of his goin' for t' be a soldier? persevered Kester. 'Niver. I've told yo' once. It were unlike Philip to think o' such a thing. 'But thou mun ha' been thinkin' on him at times i' a' these years. Bad as he'd behaved hissel', he were t' feyther o' thy little un. What did ta think he had been agait on when he left here? 'I didn't know.
There won't be any place of business agait that day." Then Mr. Trigger whispered a few words to Mr. Pile. Mr. Pile repeated the grimace which he had made before, and turned on his heel although he was in his own parlour, as though he were going to leave them. But he thought better of this, and turned again. "I always vote Blue myself," said Mr.
It's the earl as put him into his church, I reckon, for he said what a fine thing it were for to see so much employment a-given to the poor, and he never said nought o' th' sort when your works were agait, squire.
And Philip, he thought o' nothing but how he could get yo' just such another, and he set a vast o' folk agait for to meet wi' its marrow; and what he did just the very day afore he went away so mysterious was to write through Dawson Brothers, o' Wakefield, to Dublin, and order that one should be woven for yo'. Jemima had to cut a bit off hers for to give him t' exact colour.
You don't fancy we think any the worse of you for what's come and gone. Some on us, indeed, were a bit sorry for the poor young man, as lies stiff and cold for your sake, Mary; but we shall ne'er cast it up against you. Miss Simmonds, too, will be mighty put out if you don't come, for there's a deal of mourning, agait." "I can't," Mary said, in a low voice. "I don't mean ever to come again."
And Philip, he thought o' nothing but how he could get yo' just such another, and he set a vast o' folk agait for to meet wi' its marrow; and what he did just the very day afore he went away so mysterious was to write through Dawson Brothers, o' Wakefield, to Dublin, and order that one should be woven for yo'. Jemima had to cut a bit off hers for to give him t' exact colour.
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