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Na, na, my son! gien I hae ony pooer to read the trowth o' things, the life 'at's gien is no taen; an' whatever come o' the cratur, the love it waukent in a human breist,'ill no more be lost than the objec' o' the same.
'cause Aunty told me so. When I was thist a baby onc't I falled out of the bed An' got 'The Curv'ture of the Spine' 'at's what the Doctor said. I never had no Mother nen fer my Pa runned away An' dassn't come back here no more 'cause he was drunk one day An' stobbed a man in thish-ere town, an' couldn't pay his fine! An' nen my Ma she died an' I got 'Curv'ture of the Spine'!"
'Ow, say awa'. Ye sanna say muckle 'at's wrang afore I cry haud, said Mrs. Falconer, curious to know what had been moving in the boy's mind, but watching him like a cat, ready to spring upon the first visible hair of the old Adam.
"Fowk 'at's been ill-guidit, no kennin' whaur their help lies, whiles taks to the boatle. But this is but a day o' punishment, no a day o' judgment yet, an' I'm thinkin' the warst's near han' ower. Gien only Gibbie war here!" Jean left the room, shaking her head, and Janet stood alone at the window as before. A hand was laid on her arm. She looked up.
Gang hame to yer wife, an' gi'e her my compliments, an' tell her a' 'at's past atween you an' me, as near, word for word, as ye can tell the same; an' say till her, I pray her to judge atween you an' me an' to mak the best o' me to ye 'at she can, for I wad ill thole to loss yer freenship, Peter." The same moment came the command for all but passengers to go ashore.
When he had come so close that I could hardly escape him, he roared out: 'Is't you 'at's the laad Colonel H. 'at's been runnan' awa'? 'No, said I, 'I am not. "The man continued to eye me rather suspiciously, and then went slowly away. I suppose he hoped to be rewarded for me. I have told you that I got rain.
"Tak' care hoo ye affront him, whan ye tak' it," said Andrew Constable to his wife, who was setting out to carry him some dish of her own cooking for Andrew's wife belonged to the missionars "for weel ye ken Thamas likes to be unner obligation to nane but the Lord himsel'." "Lea' ye that to me, Anerew, my man. You 'at's rouch men disna ken hoo to do a thing o' that sort.
A striped awning led from the curb up to a spreading gray stone house, from which issued the low drummy whine of expensive jazz. He recognized the Howard Tate house. "Sure," he said emphatically; "'at's it! Tate's party to-night. Sure, everybody's goin'." "Say," said the individual anxiously after another look at the awning, "you sure these people ain't gonna romp on me for comin' here?"
I believe 't, though I canna jist see 't. A body canna like a'body, and the minister's jist the ae man I canna bide." "Ay could ye, gi'en ye lo'ed the ane as he oucht to be lo'ed, and as ye maun learn to lo'e him." "Weel I'm no come to that wi' the minister yet!" "He provokes me the w'y that he speaks to ye, father him 'at's no fit to tie the thong o' your shee!"
"'At's right." "Well, how did you mean that?" Pete frowned. "Just what I said. He studied his religion, he went to Mass regularly, said his prayers that sort of thing. And he was, I will say, a Christian gentleman in every sense of the word." There was irritation in his voice, as though Mike had impugned the memory of a friend. "Don't get huffy, Pete; he struck me as a pretty nice person, too "
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