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"That am I," said I. "Small thanks to you!" He had begun to seek for his breath with deep sighs. "The blue phial," said he "in the aumry the blue phial." His breath came slower still. I ran to the cupboard, and, sure enough, found there a blue phial of medicine, with the dose written on it on a paper, and this I administered to him with what speed I might.
One evening, after George Chrighton had returned from school, without taking time to snatch his accustomed morsel of bread from the aumry, he inquired for his father, and hurried off in quest of him. Having discovered the object of his search in the stack-yard "Father," cried the boy, as soon as he was within ear-shot, "hae ye heard that Mr.
Sae to hand oot o' their grip, they coonselled thegither, and concludit to gether in a place whaur naebody wud think o' luikin for them whaur but i' the booels o' the earth, whaur they laid their deid awa upo' skelfs, like in an aumry! 'Eh, but that was fearsome! interposed Steenie. 'They maun hae been sair set! Gien I had been there, wud they hae garred me gang wi' them?
"That am I," said I. "Small thanks to you!" He had begun to seek for his breath with deep sighs. "The blue phial," said he "in the aumry the blue phial." His breath came slower still. I ran to the cupboard, and, sure enough, found there a blue phial of medicine, with the dose written on it on a paper, and this I administered to him with what speed I might.
'Haud yer tongue! he would say in a hoarse whisper, when Robert sought to attract his attention; 'haud yer tongue, man, and hearken. Gin yon bonny leddy 'at yer grannie keeps lockit up i' the aumry war to tak to the piano, that's jist hoo she wad play. Lord, man! pit yer sowl i' yer lugs, an' hearken. The soutar was all wrong in this; for if old Mr.
And he gathered the clippings carefully in a wooden bowl that was already half full of bits of gold. He was ready to give twelve angels to the Holy Virgin; but he felt no way bound to depart from his use and wont. This done, he went to the aumry where his pledges lay, and drew out a little blue purse, broidered with silver, which a dame of the petty trading sort had left with him in her distress.
Out of that vividness started a nucleus more vivid yet the picture in the book-closet of the city of refuge, and the silver goblet drawn from the hidden shelf of the aumry. The recaptured moment lost shape and color, returned to the infinite past. He turned the corner of the house and came into the gardens that Mr. Touris had had laid out after the French style.
But patience, soul; God's yet in the aumry! IV. The Worst is Done May 7. Father arraigned. July 1. By reason of Willie minding to be present at the triall, which, for the concourse of spectators, demanded his earlie attendance, he committed the care of me, with Bess, to Dancey, Bess's husband, who got us places to see father on his way from the Tower to Westminster Hall.
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