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Once more he distinguished the tall figure with its white face looking anxiously up at him, and he waved his hand reassuringly. Then his eye was caught by two other figures that lurked in the first shadows farther up the King's Road. A moment later he made sure of their identity. They were Nellie Tanner and Nat Burns. For years there had been a dislike between the Burnses and the Schofields.
"I allus thought a Mole was a Mouse specie," remarked Hawkeye, not satisfied with Yan's distinction. "Oh, you!" interrupted Sam. "You'll try to make out the Burnses is some kin to the Raftens next." "I bet I won't!" and for once Guy got even. "Well," Yan continued, "it so happened about the first time in about a million years the little Hawks were not hungry just then.
Suddenly a cry arose: "There she comes! That's she!" Down the broad river never so broad as here welled a cloud of black smoke, and a big steamer surged into view. What a big thing she was! She could carry two or three Robert Burnses. She was a side-wheeler, of course, but her paddle boxes stood as high as houses.
'My indignation yet boils, Burns wrote years afterwards, 'at the recollection of the scoundrel factor's insolent, threatening letters, which used to set us all in tears. Had they 'boo'd and becked' at his bidding, and grovelled at his feet, he might have had some glimmering sense of justice, and thought it mercy. But the Burnses were men of a different stamp.
Instead he talked of his hurried trip abroad with the Burnses, and once, when they were pacing up and down a platform, at a long stop, he told her of his visit to a certain noted specialist in Berlin. "I had had a breakdown in my work last spring," he said, in a quite simple way, as if he were speaking of something unimportant.
There was but another passenger in the coach, a north country gentleman from the West Indies. I had many questions to ask my townsman, and many to answer and the time passed lightly away. "Can you tell me aught of the Burnses of Lochlea?" I inquired, after learning that my mother and other relatives were well.
Don't you know I won't have any Henry Burnses and Jack Harveys, nor any of the rest of you, around my hotel? Didn't yer get satisfaction enough out of bringing bad luck to me in one place, and now you come bringing it here? Get out, is what I say to you, and get out quick!" "You keep away, gran'," he cried to the woman, who had stepped forward. "Don't you go interfering.
Jean was brought to bed of twins, and, by an amicable arrangement, the Burnses took the boy to bring up by hand, while the girl remained with her mother. The success of the book was immediate and emphatic; it put 20 pounds at once into the author's purse; and he was encouraged upon all hands to go to Edinburgh and push his success in a second and larger edition.
Jean was brought to bed of twins, and, by an amicable arrangement, the Burnses took the boy to bring up by hand, while the girl remained with her mother. The success of the book was immediate and emphatic; it put £20 at once into the author's purse; and he was encouraged upon all hands to go to Edinburgh and push his success in a second and larger edition.
"Oh! poor man!" said Miss Custer with a sweetness of sympathy that must have comforted the wounded person immensely had he heard it. "Burnses' boy came in for Doc Ebling," continued Hugh. "They don't know whether they can patch him up again or not." "I suppose the doctor will find out," said Miss Custer complacently; and Hugh flung away his apple-core and walked on around the house.
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