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"If he'd have married Miss Lucy, like other folks, at Easter," said one of the brides whom Mr Wentworth had blessed, "such wicked stories couldn't never have been made up." "A story may be made up, or it mayn't be made up," said a more experienced matron; "but it can't be put out of the world unbeknowst no more nor a babby. I don't believe in stories getting up that aint true.
Sheppard; and, as soon as he could command his feelings, which were considerably excited by the mention of her distresses, he squeezed her hand warmly, bestowed a hearty execration upon his own inhumanity, and swore he would neither separate her from her child, nor suffer any one else to separate them. "Plague on't!" added he: "I never meant to take your babby from you.
"`Then it's just that she may send her own child away, and give her milk to the English babby that's coming; because the lady is too much of a lady to have a child hanging to her breast. "`But suppose Mary Sullivan's child ar'n't born till afterwards, how then? says I. `Speak, Mrs O'Rourke, for you're a sensible woman.
'The brat! says she, laughing like mad, 'oh, I got rid o' that when you were in jail, Bill. 'As how? says I. 'Why, there was a woman begging agin St. Poll's churchyard; so I purtended to see a frind at a distance: "'Old the babby a moment," says I, puffing and panting, "while I ketches my friend yonder."
"Manse of Comrie, July 2d, 1717. "I salute yr lady I wish my ............ her Daughter much Joy." No. One example is found in Mr. Robert Jamieson's Popular Scottish Songs: Bonny Babby Livingstone Gaed out to see the kye, And she has met with Glenlyon, Who has stolen her away.
'Did she now? said Mrs Greenacre. 'Indeed she did, said Mrs Guffern. 'And she told you them people was up there in the drawing-room? 'She told me she zee'd them come in that they was dressed finer by half nor any of the family, with all their neckses and buzoms stark naked as a born babby.
You be a tidy, sizable chap, but Black Jarge ud mak' no more o' you than I should of a babby don't ye do it." "Better not," said Simon. "On the contrary," I returned, "better run a little bodily risk and satisfy one's hunger, rather than lie safe but famishing beneath some hedge or rick what do you think, Ancient?" The old man leaned forward and peered up at me sharply beneath his hanging brows.
'Yo'd m'appen think I went beyond my place in sending Mary for yo'. But the wranglin' and the loud voices had just torn me to pieces, and I thought when father left, oh! if I could just hear her voice, reading me some words o' peace and promise, I could die away into the silence and rest o' God, lust as a babby is hushed up to sleep by its mother's lullaby. 'Shall I read you a chapter, now?
An' I sez it wi'out offense, ther' ain't a blazin' thing born in this world that don't reckon to con-clude fer itself 'fore it's rightly begun. Everything needs teachin', from a 'tenderfoot' to a New York babby." Joe's homily banished the last shadow of Tresler's ill-humor.
If you don't like to do it the first day, then leave it to the second, or third. But if you take my advice, you'll get it over the next morning. 'You'll have to do it yourself, Clem repeated stubbornly, propping her chin upon her fists. 'Well, I never thought as you was such a frightened babby! Frightened of a feller like him! I'd be ashamed o' myself! 'Who's frightened? Hold your row!
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