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I always felt as if I'd ought to have seen then that he ca'ed for me, and stopped him; but I didn't. No, I didn't," she repeated, nervously. "I respected him, and I liked him; but I neva" She stopped, and then she asked, "What do you think I'd ought to do, Miss Milray?" Miss Milray hesitated. She was thinking superficially that she had never heard Clementina say had ought, so much, if ever before.
I sha'n't forget you, but whe'e the'e's so much I got to thinkin' the'e'd ought to some of it go to his folks, whetha he ca'ed for 'em or not. It's worried me some, and I guess if anything it's that that's made me wo'se lately." "Why by Mrs. Landa," said the girl, "Why don't you give it all to them?" "You don't know what you'a talkin' about," said Mrs. Lander, severely.
But, it's like the minister has some other dependence, than what's ca'ed about the country for news. What's this I hear about a friend o' his that's done weel there?" Janet made a movement of impatience.
T' frigate as we 'n a' heard tell on, as lying off Hartlepool, got tidings fra' t' tender as captured t' seamen o' Thursday: and t' Aurora, as they ca'ed her, made off for t' nor'ard; and nine leagues off St Abb's Head, t' Resolution thinks she were, she see'd t' frigate, and knowed by her build she were a man-o'-war, and guessed she were bound on king's kidnapping.
'Courting? said she, drawing up her head, and looking back at him with proud defiance. 'Ay, courtin'! what other mak' o' thing is't when thou's gazin' after yon meddlesome chap, as if thou'd send thy eyes after him, and he making marlocks back at thee? It's what we ca'ed courtin' i' my young days anyhow.
"I don't know," he owned, meekly. "I do like you, Mr. Gregory!" she relented, as if touched by his meekness, to the confession. "You know I do moa than I ever expected to like anybody again. But it's not because I used to like you, or because I think you always acted nicely. I think it was cruel of you, if you ca'ed for me, to let me believe you didn't, afta that fust time.
Well, Belle was ta'en to the old room where the mistress, my uncle's wife, lay abed her they ca'ed the Leddy, a fine strapping woman, with kindly hands to man and beast and a wheedling, coaxing way with her, though she could be cold and haughty at times, for she came of fighting stock, and could not thole clavering and fussing, and I think she would not hasten her stately step to be in time for the Last Judgment, for the pride of her.
"You are he who is ca'ed the guid Sir James?" said the old woman. "I am, good woman," replied Sir James. "Why hast thou wandered from the sutler's camp?" "I dinna belang to the camp o' the hoblers," answered the woman.
But I was confined to my bed for ten weeks, wi' a dreadfu' attack o' rheumatism it was what was ca'ed a rheumatic fever it reduced me to a perfect anatomy. I was as feckless as a half-burned thread. Through fatigue, anxiety, and want o' support thegither, Nancy also took very ill; and there did we lie to a' appearance hastening to the grave.
And after his experience of the last hour and a half, he did not at all relish his renewed solitude in that room. "A drap of puir thin liquor, poored out, too, in a weeny glass nae deeper than an egg-shell, and twa cookies; that's what she ca'ed rafrashment!"
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