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"I shall do splendidly right here." She sat down on the top step of the veranda and turned half round to me. "Do you ever feel lonely, Mr. Bremner?" "Yes! sometimes," I answered. "What do you do with yourself on such occasions?" "Oh! smoke and read chiefly." "But, do you ever feel as if you had to speak to a member of the opposite sex near your own age, or die?"
David was to Mrs. Bremner the other side of a deep pit, into the bottom of which whatever was said between them dropped. 'There'll come a catastrophe or lang, said Mrs. Bremner one evening when David Barclay overtook her on the road to the town, 'and that'll be seen! The property's jist awa to the dogs!
At that moment Forsyth would have parted with his dearest hopes in life to have escaped, and the toothache, strange to say, left him entirely; but he was a plucky fellow at bottom; having agreed to have it done, he would not draw back. Bremner introduced the pincers slowly, being anxious to get a good hold of the tooth. Forsyth uttered a groan in anticipation!
She yawned again, rose, and declared that she felt quite tired enough to go to bed. When she had gone, Jane left her lessons and came to her sister's side. "Esther, do I really have to go away with Mother?" "It looks like it, Janie. But you'll like it. Mrs. Bremner has a little girl." "I don't like little girls." "Then you ought to! The change will probably do you good." Jane looked dubious.
Peter Bremner, we may remark in passing, was a particularly useful member of society. Besides being small and corpulent, he was a capital cook.
Horsfal," he mumbled rather thickly, in a voice that seemed to come from somewhere underground; "didn't know you in the distance." "Jake, shake with Mr. George Bremner; he's going to supervise the place and the new store, same as I explained to you two weeks ago. Hope you make friends. He's to be head boss man, and his word goes; but you'll find him twenty-four carat gold."
"That's true," said Ruby. "Come, Bremner, I have heard you say that you had read all about that business. Let's hear the story; it will help to while away the time, for there's no chance of anyone gettin' to sleep with such a row outside." "I wish it may be no worse than a row outside," said Forsyth in a doleful tone, as he shook his head and looked round on the party anxiously.
If I go for to start at every wave like that I'll have a poor night of it, for the tide has a long way to rise yet. Let's go and have a bit supper, lad." Bremner rose from the anvil, on which he had seated himself, and went up the ladder into the cook-house above.
"Och! poor sowl!" ejaculated O'Connor. Bremner threw all his strength into a final wrench, which tore away the pincers and left the tooth as firm as ever! Forsyth leaped up and dashed his comrades right and left. "That'll do," he roared, and darted up the ladder into the apartment above, through which he ascended to the barrack-room, and flung himself on his bed.
These were Peter Logan, the foreman, whose position required him to have a care for the safety of the men as well as for the progress of the work, and our friend Bremner, who had just descended from the cooking-room, where he had been superintending the preparation of supper. "It will be a stiff breeze, I fear, to-night," said Logan.
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