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The Border ballads, that go lilting along to the galloping of horses and jingling of spurs, are the interpretation of another side. The same active influence accompanies the Jacobite songs "Up wi' the bonnets for bonnie Dundee!" filled many a legion for Prince Charles and the blood kindles yet to their fife-like and drum-like movements.
"Not 'Bonnie Leslie, 'Jewel, 'Angel," jested Mary, thrilling at the echo of a certain low, fluttered voice, that had sounded in her own ears and would wilfully repeat, "Winsome Mary," "Little Woman," "Witch!" "No," Leslie replied, with honest frankness, "that would be speaking nonsense; and if Hector Garret thinks nonsense that is bad enough."
Had Nita's private detective journeyed out to Hamilton years ago in a fruitless attempt to locate "Matthew Selim?" Bonnie Dundee lay awake for hours Friday night turning these and a hundred other questions over and over in his too-active mind, and slept at last, only to awake Saturday with a plan of procedure which he was sensible enough to realize promised small chance of success.
In the church-going crowds of a Fifth Avenue Sunday there are many who recall the sturdy figure of Dr. John Watson, the Ian MacLaren of the "Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush" tales, who on several occasions occupied a New York pulpit. The last time those who sat under him saw a man apparently in the full vigour of rugged health.
My father often repeated them to me." And here is the stanza signed with her name: "'Maxwelton's banks are bonnie, They're a' clad owre wi' dew, Where I an' Annie Laurie Made up the bargain true. Made up the bargain true, Which ne'er forgot s'all be, An' for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down an' dee. "I mind na mair. "August 30, 1854."
"There was this rizzon," she said, re-entering with the child, and laying him in James's arms. He gasped with astonishment, almost consternation. "Is this mine?" he stammered. "Yours and mine, sir," she replied. "Wasna God a heap better til me nor I deserved? Sic a bonnie bairn! No a mark, no a spot upon him frae heid to fut to tell that he had no business to be here!
"It is not a marriage," she whispered. "I never took a false name, and I've never yet told a lie to a woman. What lie? Why, the lie . Take me or leave me, I say: and if you take me, then it is..." He hummed a snatch very low, leaning against the wall. "Oh, ho, ho Rio! And fare thee well, My bonnie young girl, We're bound to Rio Grande." "Capstan song," he explained. Her teeth chattered.
"Yes?" said the Bonnie Lassie in a tone which I mistrusted. "It is no use," I assured her, "for you to favor me with that pitying and contemptuous smile of yours, for I can't see it. Mendel has my nearer range of vision locked in his shop."
As she turned the stiff pages filled with all sorts of verses, good, bad, and indifferent, a sheet of paper appeared on which was scribbled these lines in school-girl handwriting: My bonnie flower, with truest joy Thy welcome face I see, The world grows brighter to my eyes, And summer comes with thee.
It was easy enough to fasten things on his neck. Whether it was a square thing to do, him knowing what he does well, that's something you ought to know." She didn't say anything at that. "A honorable man," says I, "would of come around to the front door, Bonnie Bell." "He had no part in this quarrel," says Bonnie Bell; at last, quiet like. "Why blame him?" That made me hot. "Why blame him?"
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