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"Here beldam Deyvil's kind," growled the harsh voice of Dirk Hatteraick from the inside of his den, what makest thou there?" "Have you brought me the brandy, and any news of my people?" said Dirk Hatteraick. "Here's the flask for ye. Your people-dispersed broken gone or cut to ribbands by the red-coats." "Der Deyvil! this coast is fatal to me." "Ye may hae mair reason to say sae."
Stories were told by her attendant so closely resembling her own in their circumstances, that she was gradually led to converse upon such tragic and mystical subjects with the beldam, and to repose a sort of confidence in the sibyl, whom she still regarded with involuntary shuddering. Dame Gourlay knew how to avail herself of this imperfect confidence.
"What does she want here?" said the impatient magistrate "Can she not tell her business, or go away?" "It's my bairn! it's Magdalen Murdockson I'm wantin'," answered the beldam, screaming at the highest pitch of her cracked and mistuned voice "havena I been telling ye sae this half-hour? And if ye are deaf, what needs ye sit cockit up there, and keep folk scraughin' t'ye this gate?"
He has taken the ship to wife, for better or for worse, for calm or for gale; and she is not to be shuffled off. With yards akimbo, she says unto him scornfully, as the old beldam said to the little dwarf: "Help yourself" And all this, and more than this, is a calm. At the time I now write of, we must have been something more than sixty degrees to the west of the Gallipagos.
She would live and die precisely the same bitter old beldam that she was, and nothing could ever assuage her. While Peter was thinking of the old creature, she came shuffling along the back piazza with his breakfast. She let herself in by lifting one knee to a horizontal, balancing the tray on it, then opening the door with her freed hand.
Lang it was ere he died; he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie. The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. 'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam? said one of the gipsies; 'could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
"Hold your tongue, beldam!" said he, with a stern significance of manner, "and fetch one of my best shirts, a waistcoat, and some dressings." Saying this, he at the same time put into her hand a small bunch of keys. In a word, he treated me with as much kindness as if he had been my father.
Beldam's superlatively courteous tones as of one who is ready to die to serve you, and then another voice rather loud and sharp, but pleasant, with the sound of a laugh in it. "They are in the blue drawing-room, sir Mr. Henry," Beldam's voice was heard on the stairs, and, in a moment, Beldam himself appeared "Mr. Henry, Sir Jeremy." Then he stood aside, and Henry Trojan entered the room.
She gave a grunt as she withdrew her head. It was speedily to develop, though, that she had not entirely betaken herself away. Almost immediately there came to the ears of the couple the creak-creak of a rocking-chair just inside the hall, but out of view from their end of the porch. "Make the old beldam go away, won't you?" whispered the man. "I'll try," she whispered back rather nervously.
"Why, as to that But stay, she is about to speak." "I will have no priest none," said the beldam, with impotent vehemence; "as I have lived I will die none shall say that I betrayed my mistress, though it were to save my soul!" "That bespoke a foul conscience," said the mendicant; "I wuss she wad mak a clean breast, an it were but for her sake;" and he again assailed her.
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