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Only the larger fullness of his fine nostril betrayed the hell of wrath seething within him. And when they alighted in Skeighan an observant boy said to his mother, "I saw the marks of his chirted teeth through his jaw." But they were still far from Skeighan, and Gourlay had much to thole. "Did ye hear," shouted Brodie, "that Wilson is sending his son to the College at Embro in October?"
He paused there for hardly more than an instant and then went on, down the further side, out of sight. The man who had seen all this from his own slope caught up his canvas roll again and hurried down toward the lake. For the first time he spoke aloud, saying: "Swen Brodie. There's not another man in the mountains brute enough for that."
Rynch Brodie sat up, flexed his bare thin arms, and moved his long legs experimentally. No broken bones, anyway. But still he frowned. Odd that dream which jarred with the here and now. Crawling to the side of the creek, he dipped head and shoulders into the water, letting the chill of the stream flush away some of his waking bewilderment.
I was for dragging him out, when Gordon showed me the movement would bring down the butt of the branch on his body. He ran for help. Ailie came first and then Brodie, and while the three of us held up the limb of the tree, Ailie pulled him out. She was calmer than any of us. Carrying him to the house, we had the satisfaction of finding there was no bone broken.
Oh fudge! The game? What matters the game? It's the play we care about." "Well spoken, lassie," said the doctor. "That's the true sport." "Aren't they awful?" cried Dunn. "Look at that young Canadian idiot up there." "Well, if you ask me, I think he's a perfect dear," said Miss Brodie, deliberately. "I'm sure I know him; anyway I'm going to encourage him with my approval."
"Oh, it is all my stupid fault, Mr. Dunn," said Miss Brodie. "Let him come along a bit with us. I say, youngster, you are much too acute," she continued, as they went striding along together toward Mr. Rae's office. "But will you believe me if I tell you something? Will you? Straight now?" The boy glanced up into her honest blue eyes, and nodded his head. "Your friend Cameron is quite all right.
Thus he preserved an untroubled demeanour until the day of his death. Always polite, and even joyous, he met the smallest indulgence with enthusiasm. When Smith complained that a respite of six weeks was of small account, Brodie exclaimed, 'George, what would you and I give for six weeks longer? Six weeks would be an age to us. The day of execution was the day of his supreme triumph.
"Brodie," said Furneaux, seeming to pounce on the chauffeur, "you were seated at the wheel when the shot was fired?" "Ye yes, sir," stuttered Brodie, rather taken aback by the little man's suddenness. "Were you looking at the wood?" "In a sort of a way, sir." "Did you see any one among the trees?" "No, sir, that I didn't." This more confidently. "Place your car where it was stationed then.
Can I say I hae yer leddyship's pardon?" Crucified by Geordie's cruel humour, but compelled to be silent, Lady Maitland signified her favour. "Yer leddyship's condescension is a great relief to me," resumed Geordie. "They say Sir Marmaduke's nevey, Brodie o' Birkiehaugh, is in jail for attempting to rin awa' wi' a young lassie.
Long had they watched the door of the Excise; long had they studied the habits of its clerks; so that they went to work in no vain spirit of experiment. Nor on the fatal night did they force an entrance until they had dogged the porter to his home. Smith and Brown ransacked the place for money, while Brodie and Andrew Ainslie remained without to give a necessary warning.
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