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"Oh, Donald, man, will ye no lend a hand?" he sobbed again, his hands bleeding from vain attempts to scale the slippery trunk. But Donald had fixed his gaze up river, and now his voice rang out, vibrant with fear: "God Almichty, here she comes!"
"I willna gang," he exclaimed, "till ony kirk that pits oot the token at the sacrament, and taks up wi' they bit cairds they're usin' the noo. Cairds at the sacrament! it's fair insultin' to the Almichty." I parried the blow as best I could, and was on the verge of winning in the argument when he suddenly took another tack. "Forbye, I hae dune ma duty.
Eh, but we maun tak care o' 'im, father! Whaur would I be wi'oot you at my back!" "And God at the back o' baith, bairn!" rejoined the soutar. "It's thinkable that the Almichty may hae special diffeeculty wi sic as he, but nane can jeedge o' ony thing or body till they see the hin'er en' o' 't a'. But I'm thinkin it maun aye be harder for ane that hasna his ain mither to luik til.
'What on airth's the maitter wi' ye, Sandy? said Robert. 'Eh, Robert! returned the shoemaker, and a tone of affection tinged the mournfulness with which he uttered the strange words 'eh, Robert! the Almichty will gang his ain gait, and I'm in his grup noo. 'He's had a stroke, said his wife, without removing her apron from her eyes. 'Ye maun gang to yer bed, said Robert, greatly concerned.
"Indeed, Mr Cupples, I fully doobt that the displeesur o' the Almichty is restin' upo' oor kirk; and Mr Turnbull, honest man, appears to feel the wacht o' 't. We hae mair than ae instance i' the Scriptur o' a haill community sufferin' for the sin o' ane." "Do ye ken ony instance o' a gude man no bein' able to win in to your set?" "Ay, ane, I think.
"Lie doon an' rest, an' if it be the wull o' the Almichty a'll wauken ye in the mornin' tae see a livin' conscious man, an' if it be ither-wise a'll come for ye the suner, Bell," and the big red hand went out to the anxious wife. "A' gie ye ma word." Bell leant over the bed, and at the sight of Saunders' face a superstitious dread seized her.
If he disappoint you, then I dinna know a lad o' pairts when I see him, and the Doctor is with me." "Maister Jamieson," said Marget, with great solemnity, "ma hert's desire is to see George a minister, and if the Almichty spared me to hear ma only bairn open his mooth in the Evangel, I wud hae naething mair to ask ... but I doot sair it canna be managed."
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