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"Is it not significant of the altered grouping of things," he observed, "that the Church, as represented by me, sympathises with the message of Sherard Blaw, while neither the man nor his message find acceptance with unbelievers like you, Lady Caroline." Lady Caroline blinked her eyes. "My dear Archdeacon," she said, "no one can be an unbeliever nowadays.
"Oh, aye, he's down; down with him!" " and therefore it is monstrous that he should be allowed to subvert the order of social life or disturb the broad grounds of the reasonable and the practical " "Never mind. High winds only blaw on high hills, laddie!"
'I have been lucky in my partners, I said, 'first that pretty young lady, and then you, Mrs. Martin. 'Hout wi' your fleeching, said Dame Martin. 'Gae wa gae wa, lad; dinna blaw in folk's lugs that gate; me and Miss Lilias even'd thegither! Na, na, lad od, she is maybe four or five years younger than the like o' me, bye and attour her gentle havings.
"Yer mither's been sair upo' ye, I doobt!" he said. "But it'll sune blaw ower. She cuils as fest 's she heats." As he spoke he set himself down on the sand beside her. But Lizzy started to her feet, crying, "Dinna come near me, Ma'colm. I'm no fit for honest man to come nigh me. Stan' awa'; I hae the plague."
"Weel," resumed the crucifier, "Birkiehaugh didna succeed thanks to Peter Finlayson, honest fallow and the lassie is safe again; but I hae made a vow, and I hope sae gude a ane will be regularly recorded whar it should be, that the first person wha tries to lay sae meikle as a finger on that bonny bairn's head, or blaw a single breath o' suspicion against her reputation, will meet wi' the just indignation o' Geordie Willison.
"'A very fine nicht, says she, very frank, though she was breathing quick like as if she had been running, 'You'll be police? says she. "'I am, says I, 'and wha be you? "'I'm just a puir gypsy lassie, she says. "'And what's that in your hand? says I. "'It's a horn I found in the wood, says she, 'but it's rusty and winna blaw.
"I'd make you pay, if 't was awnly for sayin' that! I'm a man to steal others' fur out of season, ban't I? But I doan't have no words wi' the likes o' you. I've took you fair an' square, anyways, an' will just ax if you be comin' wi'out a fuss, or am I to make 'e?" The other snarled. "You you come a yard nearer an' I'll blaw your damned head "
"But Aggie," reasoned Cosmo, with yet greater earnestness, "what'll ye gar fowk think o' me,'at wad hae a lassie to gang hame wi' me, for fear the win' micht blaw me intil the sea? Ye'll bring me to shame, Aggie." "A lassie! say ye?" cried Aggie, "I think I hear ye! an' me auld eneuch to be yer mither! Is' tak guid care there s' be nae affront intil 't.
I was thrown flat on the ground, and when I tried to get up I was all bruised and burnt with the falling clods and splinters, and my comrade was dead at my side. I crawled away as soon as I could there was no thought then of making prisoners." "But what gar'd the magazine blaw up? Was it an accident?" asked old Allan McPherson, the Highland piper, who had listened eagerly to the tragic story.
Steamboats for "a' the airts the winds can blaw," were passing out and away, leaving a train of smoke behind them, and big sail vessels, three-masted and with sails packed up, are waiting to go, and revenue cutters and small passenger boats are flying about each on their way.
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