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"And, even if she were to be prayed back again, she wad never be the creature she was again. A coal black lire, and singit ee-brees, wadna set her auld lovers in Christ's Kirk in a bleeze again." "They should watch the smoking field o' Dysart," cried Widow Lindsay. "If she come again ava, it will be through that deil's porch. But what noise is that, Kitty?
I am sure they belie baith Cuddie and me sair, if they said he wadna fight ower the boots in blude for your leddyship and Miss Edith, and the auld Tower ay suld he, and I would rather see him buried beneath it, than he suld gie way but thir ridings and wappenschawings, my leddy, I hae nae broo o' them ava. I can find nae warrant for them whatsoever."
I beckoned her outside and told her Doctor Forbes wished me to find out, if I could, what troubled my sister's mind. As we entered, I saw Mary sitting by the bed, holding the hand of the poor white figure that lay, death-like, beneath the sheet. Helen's head was swathed in bandages, except for the oval of her face. She looked quite like some fair nun who had said her last "Ava."
"Father Nicholas has done his best to spoil her, but, thank Heaven! he has not succeeded, and his reign is pretty well over, I suspect." Laneta, who really in her way loved her sister, followed her mother's lead, and embraced Ava affectionately.
About this time news came to Pegu that the king of Ava was advancing against him with a vast army, on which the king of Pegu went to meet him with one almost innumerable. Two days after the departure of the king from Pegu, we sailed towards the city of Malacca, where we arrived after a voyage of eight days.
After walking two miles through the streets of Ava, she came to some high walls she knocked at the gate a stern-looking man opened it. The lady, passing through the gates, entered a court. In one corner of the court, there was a little shed made of bamboos, and near it, upon a mat, eat a pale, and sorrowful man. His countenance brightens when he perceives the lady enter.
"'I've seen i' the Bible, said I, 'that man was gi'en "dominion ower the beasts o' the earth an' the fowls o' the air," but I canna do as I'd wush wi' thae cursed geese ower there. "'Verra richt; ye're verra richt, young man, said he. 'What wud ye gie to be able to kill as mony fowl as ye list, an' never miss ava? "It seemed as I were mad at th' thocht. 'I'd gie my saul, said I.
In the mean time, other missionaries had arrived in Burma, among whom was Dr. Price, the fame of whose skill in medicine reached the ears of the king; and Dr. Price was ordered to Ava, then the capital. Dr. Price obeyed the summons; and Mr. Judson, anxious to make another effort to procure toleration for the Christians, accompanied him. The king received them kindly, determined to retain Dr.
"There's a gairdener, like at the country-hooses o' the gentry, leevin' in a bit lodge by the gate. He has naethin' to do, ava, but lock the gate at nicht, put the dogs oot, an' mak' the posies bloom i' the simmer. Ay, it's a bonny place." "It's ower grand for Auld Jock." "Ye may weel say that. His bit grave isna so far frae the martyrs' monument."
It will devolve on me, I apprehend, to administer the return, which is not, I think, a bad arrangement for British prestige in the East. Steamer 'Ava, Hong-kong. November 17th. My serious work is about to begin. I must draw up a challenge for Yeh, which is a delicate matter. Gros showed me a projet de note when I called on him some days ago. It is very long, and very well written.
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