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"Oh, it's kilt I am entirely dead as mutton at last, an' no mistake. Sure I might have knowd it och! worse luck! Didn't yer poor owld mother tell ye, Phil, that ye'd come to a bad end she did " "Are ye badly hurt?" said Glynn, stooping over his friend in real alarm. "It's me, Phil; all right, and Ailie. We've escaped, and got safe back again."
"Aunt Ailie has a book with a story about writing in fiery letters, but it frightened me so much that I never read to the end." "Bring it to me, and we will read it together, and then you will see that such a cruel use can be made of phosphorus." "It was unkind of them," said Rose, sadly, "I wonder if they did it for fun?" "Where did you sleep?" "I had a little room that opened into mamma's."
The captain made no reply; but, shutting his eyes, and drawing Ailie close to his side, he uttered a long and fervent prayer to God for deliverance, if He should see fit, or for grace to endure with Christian resignation and fortitude whatever He pleased to send upon them. When he concluded, and again looked up, Dr Hopley was standing beside them, with his head bowed upon his breast.
"She is well now," said Rose, in the grave, grown-up way she always assumed when speaking of her aunt's health; "but she has been having a good deal of her nervous headache this summer, and Lady Temple wanted her to see Mr. Frampton, but Aunt Ailie said it was only excitement and wear of spirits. Oh, I am glad you have come back! We have so wearied after you."
"Hallo! Ailie!" exclaimed the captain, as his daughter pulled down his head to be kissed. "Why, you take a fellow all aback, like a white squall. Are you ready, my pet? Kit stowed and anchor tripped? Come this way, and let us talk about it. Dear me, Martha, you and Jane look as if you had been running a race, eh? Here are my messmates come to talk a bit with you.
When they were about finally to part, the good farmer held Brown long by the hand, and at length said, 'Captain, the woo's sae weel up the year that it's paid a' the rent, and we have naething to do wi' the rest o' the siller when Ailie has had her new gown, and the bairns their bits o' duds.
And it grieved her to think what a wide gulf there was between the untaught Ailie, and that sincere, but stern piety over which had gathered the formality of advancing years. Mrs. Gwynne and her guest had sat talking for some minutes, when Harold was seen crossing the lawn.
James hovered about, put out and miserable, but active and exact as ever; read to her, when there was a lull, short bits from the Psalms, prose and metre, chanting the latter in his own rude and serious way, showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and doating over her as his "ain Ailie." "Ailie, ma woman!" "Ma ain bonnie wee dawtie!"
Gurney, too, and Briant, and Nikel Sling came out frequently in the story-telling line, and were the means of causing many and many an hour to pass quickly and pleasantly by, which would otherwise have hung heavily on the hands of all. Ailie Dunning was an engrossed and delighted listener at all times. She drank in every species of story with an avidity that was quite amusing.
There were exactly thirty-five of them; twenty-six were, comparatively speaking, large; seven were of medium size, and two were extremely small so small and thin that Ailie wondered they did not die of sheer delicacy of constitution on such a barren spot.
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