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And now a girl comes up with a biggin of water on her head, a broken comb in her hand, and a ragged cloth on her arm that looked as if it had never been washed since it left the loom, and sets them down on a bench, with a grin at Moll; but she, though not over-nice, turns away with a pout of disgust, and then we to get a breath of fresh air to a hole in the wall on the windward side, where we stand all dumb with disappointment and dread until we are called down to dinner.
"Well," replied Edward, after a pause, "if the king does come over, there will be some work cut out for some of us, I expect. Your news has put me in a fever," continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer. "I thought it would," replied Oswald; "but until the time comes, the more quiet you keep the better."
It was Virginia's warning, signed by Adams, and a single glance at the closing sentence was enough to cool him suddenly. "Pay the bill, Biggin, and join me in the billiard-room, quick!" he whispered, pressing money into the town-marshal's hand and losing himself in the crowd. And when Biggin had obeyed his instructions: "Now for a back way out of this, if there is one.
He shivered, rose, and made his way out. Steenie stood in the sunlight waiting for them. 'Why, Steenie, said Gordon, 'you brought me to see your house: why didn't you come in with me? 'Na, na! I'm feart for my feet: this is no my hoose! answered Steenie. 'I'm biggin ane. Kirsty's helpin me: I cudna big a hoose wantin Kirsty! That's what I wud hae ye see, no this ane. This is Kirsty's hoose.
For seventeen of the twenty miles the two lines were scarcely more than a stone's throw apart, and when Biggin joined him at the junction above Carbonate he had his note-book well filled with the necessary data. "Make it, all right?" inquired the friendly bailiff. "Yes, thanks. Have another cigar?" "Don't care if I do.
Thou's puttin' up walls all ower t' commons an' lettin' t' snakes wind theirsels around my lile biggin; and there's fowks'll be puttin' up bigger walls, that'll be like a halter round thy neck." As he uttered these words, Peregrine drew himself up to his full height, and his flashing eyes and animated gestures gave to what he said something of the weight of a sibylline prophecy.
I didn't know if he had ever before come to Ayr; but I did know that his first home on our own island of Dhrum must have been much like this just a clay biggin with a but and a ben. He, too, was born a genius. He, like Burns, knew grinding poverty. He, too, was taken up by great ones and dropped again, for he has told me so.
Being a skilful boxer, which his antagonist was not, he did what he had to do neatly and with commendable despatch. Down, up; down, up; down a third time, and then the bystanders interfered. "Hold on!" "That'll do!" "Don't you see he's drunk?" "Enough's as good as a feast let him go." Winton's blood was up, but he desisted, breathing threatenings. Whereat Biggin shouldered his way into the circle.
"Biggin a dry-stane dyke, I think, wi' the grey geese, as they ca' thae great loose stanes Odd, that passes a' thing I e'er heard tell of!" As they approached nearer, Earnscliff could not help agreeing with his companion. The figure they had seen the night before seemed slowly and toilsomely labouring to pile the large stones one upon another, as if to form a small enclosure.
"Didn't take you more'n a week to change your mind about pullin' it off with that tinhorn scrapper in the courts, did it?" "No," said Winton. "'Tain't none o' my business, but I'd like to know what stampeded you." "A telegram," shortly. "It was a put-up job to have me locked up on a criminal charge, and so hold me out another day." Biggin grinned. "The old b'iler-buster again.
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