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"Well, I should hope not, Cannie; but, for all that, you see me with a black face ha! ha! ha!" "I do indeed, Mr. Frank, and, between you and me, I'm sorry to see it." "You will not be sorry to hear, however, that my black face saved my life last night." "Arra thin, how was that, sir, if it's a fair question?"
"No," replied the Cannie Soogah; "I axed the stranger the same question, and he couldn't tell me.
"It's clean havers about the muir. Losh keep's, we've a' sleepit oot and never been a hair the waur. "A' admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no cannie stravagin' yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me if he hed been nippit in the Sooth."
Then with a great effort, rallying her powers, she went on: "I didn't like to sit there and hear them and not tell them that I was your cousin; but I was too too frightened to speak to them, so I thought I would never repeat what they said, and then it wouldn't be any matter." "Quite right, Cannie," said Mrs. Gray, quickly. Something in the girl's little speech seemed to please her very much.
But Mrs Forbes was proud, and did not like interference between her and her son. Had she found things as bad as she had expected, she would have been humble. Now that her fears had abated, her natural pride had returned. "Take me to your own room, Alec," she said. "Ay, ay, mem. Tak' him wi' ye. But caw cannie, ye ken, or ye'll gie me a deevil o' a job wi' 'm."
"So I was just saying, Nancy," replied her husband; "hallo! who's this coming up to the hall-door? begad, our old pleasant friend, the Cannie Soogah. Upon my troth, I'm glad to see him. Hallo! Cannie! Cannie Soogah, my hearty, Jolly Pedlar, I say this way! How are you, man? have you breakfasted? Of course not.
Come, ladies and, by the way, where's my favorite, Miss Julia from you?" "She's not quite well this morning, Cannie," said her mother; "she has a slight headache, I believe." "Well, Miss Mary, then? Any purchases to-day, Miss Mary?" "Not to-day, Cannie the next time, perhaps." "Cannie," said Purcel, "you praised your razors very highly at your last visit; have you a good case this morning?"
Julia got as pale as death for a moment, and then her brow became crimson with indignation. In fact, she saw not his bracelet nor heard what he said in praise of it; but after a little time she said, "Thank you, Cannie, most seriously do I thank you and you may rest assured I shall faithfully follow your advice."
O'Driscol, you're well known! to have more o' the divil than the man in you beggin' your pardon, sir, for the freedoms, I'm takin' but it's all for your own good I'm doin' it. Have you e're a mouse-hole about your place, sir?" "A-hem! Why, Cannie," asked O'Driscol, with an expression of strong alarm in his face "why do you ask so so singular a question as that?"
"Broke your side-comb, did I? Well, then, you couldn't be in better hands, darlin', here's a pair I make you a present of, and maybe they won't set you all off to pieces; here, darlin', wear these for my sake." "But are you making me a present of these beauties, Cannie?"
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