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The more so, because, though a good and careful, he was not a very loving father. But he seemed gratified by the kindness that Miss Rothesay showed to little Ailie; and frequently suffered the child to stay with her, and be taught by her all things, save those in which it was his pleasure that his daughter should remain ignorant the doctrines of the Church of England.
Storefield wouldn't have 'em cut because her old man had planted 'em. She came out to see us. 'Well, Ailie, child, says she, 'come along in, don't sit there on your horse. Who's this you've got with you? Oh! it's you, Dick, is it? My eyes ain't as good as they were. Well, come along in too. You're on the wrong road, and worse 'll come of it.
A stranger might have had some difficulty, notwithstanding the minuteness of the directions supplied by Ailie, to pilot himself in safety through the dark labyrinth of passages that led from the back-door to the little kitchen; but Henry was too well acquainted with the navigation of these straits to experience danger, either from the Scylla which lurked on one side in shape of a bucking tub, or the Charybdis which yawned on the other in the profundity of a winding cellar-stair.
And then, after calculation on his fingers, "It'll tak' a shullin' an' twapenny ha'penny mair." There was a gasping breath of bitter disappointment, and one wee laddie wailed for lost Bobby. At that Ailie dashed the tears from her own eyes and sprang up, spurred to desperate effort. She would storm the all but hopeless attic chambers.
The students all of us wept like children; the surgeon happed her up carefully, and, resting on James and me, Ailie went to her room, Rab following. We put her to bed. James took off his heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt, and put them carefully under the table, saying, "Maister John, I'm for nane o' yer strynge nurse bodies for Ailie.
"Not sleepy, Aunt Ailie; only it is such a tiresome long day when the Colonel does not come in." "Take care, Rosie; I don't know what we shall be good for at this rate." "We? O Aunt Ermine, then you think it tiresome too. I know you do " "What's that, Rose!" "It is! it is! I'll open the door for him." The next moment Rose led her Colonel in triumph into the lamp-light.
"Then there is only one thing that it can be, Ailie, and you need not fear to tell me that. I always knew that if he lived I must be prepared for it, and you would not have hesitated to tell me of his death." "It is not that, indeed it is not, Ermine, it is only this that I found to-day that Lady Temple's major has the same name." "But you said she was come home. You must have seen him."
I was reading a book, a story, last winter, and one of the characters, an old maid, was held up to ridicule in it for many little peculiarities that that I recognized as my own. They had grown upon me without my knowing that they made me ridiculous, and now I I have tried, but I cannot alter them." "Is that all, Ailie?" "No." The last seemed to be the hardest to say.
And as her sister came back, she looked up and shook her head at her, saying, "You gossiping Ailie, to go ripping up old grievances. I am going to ask Miss Curtis not to let the story go any farther, now you have relieved your mind of it." "I did tell Lady Temple," said Alison; "I never think it right not to let people know what sort of person they have to teach their children."
Dishart gave them to Gavin on his birthday she she had told him to keep them out of his father's sight. So if Tommy was to get "Waverley" at once, he must discover another way. For some time Miss Ailie had been anxious about her red-armed maid, who had never before given pain unless by excess of willingness, as when she offered her garter to tie Miss Ailie's parcels with.
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