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"You are so good, Pelle," she said softly, "but you can't come to me bringing me something from foreign parts I know everything about you, but I've never dreamed of you at night. Are you a fortunate person?" "I'll soon show you if I am," said Pelle, raising his head. "Only give me a little time." "Lord, now she's blethering about fortune again," cried the mother, turning round.
"But yes, it is true, he did not see him any more than I did. Drimdarroch, by all accounts, was a spendthrift, a player, a bavard, his great friends, Glengarry and another Scot, Balhaldie " "Oh, Balhaldie! blethering Balhaldie!" cried Doom, contempt upon his countenance. "And Balhaldie would sell him, I'll warrant. He seems, this Drimdarroch, to have been dooms unlucky in his friends.
I'm past caring. "D'you notice that I didn't speak a word to her not one blessed word the whole time? I should have choked if I'd tried to. I didn't want to look at her, to think of her. That's why I told that rotten story, just to keep myself going. What a blethering idiot she must have thought me! What a putrid ass! The sea And me! "And the way she looked at me "
See But and ben. Besom, a broom. Bide, stay. Bittock, a little bit. Blatherskite, a babbling person, a good-for-nothing. Blethering, talking nonsense. Bonny, pretty, beautiful, charming. Bracken, brake, a species of tall fern. Braw, fine, handsome. Burn, a brook. But and ben, outside and in. But the house means out of the house.
The contemptuous challenge goaded him to fury; for the Christianity of our Covenanting ancestors was seldom of that cast which prompts the turning of the other cheek to the smiter, and Ringan was one of the most militant of a militant sect. "God do so to me, and more also," shouted he, springing to his feet, "'gin I humble not this blethering boaster, and stop his craw, or he maun stop mine."
'Twas at Camden, four days since. They came together in the murk of the Wednesday morning, my Lord Cornwallis and that poor fool Gates. De Kalb is dead; your blethering Irishman, Rutherford, is captured; and your rag-tag rebel army is scattered to the four winds. And that's not all. On the Friday, Colonel Tarleton came up with Sumter at Fishing Creek and caught him napping.
It is doubtful if this draggled Dick Turpin, lying in Bridewell, appreciated Birkenbog's humour quite so much as did Cochrane and Blethering Jock when he told them the story afterwards. If I had any common-sense I might have seen that Birkenbog was not a safe man to trouble in the matter of an only daughter, without the most serious intentions in the world.
As a matter of fact, I was twenty-nine years of age when, in South America, while exploring the ruins of the most ancient civilization of the world of the world, ladies and gentlemen I made my wonderful discovery, the Elixir of Youth! 'What art blethering at, Licksy? a drunken man called from the back of the crowd, and the nickname stuck to the great discoverer during the rest of the Wakes.
He's offered good wages; I can take his wages and do his work, and save him from turning into a blethering idiot." Probably, in his heat to argue, he had spoken too quickly for the Frenchman to take in all his words. That his drift was understood and pondered on was evident from the slow answer. "It would be good for Monsieur Bates, but poor for you."
Kate had dropped back on the pillow, and was sobbing as if her heart would break, and seeing this, Nancy fell on Pete with loud reproaches, took the man by the shoulders and his dog by the neck, and pushed both out of the room. "Out of it," cried Nancy. "Didn't I tell you to be quiet? You great blethering omathaun, you shall come no more."
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