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'It'll maybe be you they'll laugh at. Come on, ye cooard! By this time the other fellows had become interested, and one of them, commonly called Jake, the oldest in the billet, came forward. 'What's up, Grocer? he inquired of Macgregor, who had early earned his nickname thanks to Uncle Purdie's frequent consignments of dainties, which were greatly appreciated by all in the billet.
'Div ye think me a cooard, Kirsty? 'No wi' men, answered the truthful girl, who would not lie even in ministration to a mind diseased. 'Maybe ye think I oucht to hae strucken ye back whan ye strack me? I wull be a cooard than, lat ye say what ye like. I never did, and I never will hit a lassie, lat her kill me! 'It wasna that, Francie.
I maun hae been terrible tired. 'I telled ye sae! cried Kirsty. 'Jist gang ower the story to me, Francie, and I s' tell ye whether ye're a cooard or no. I dinna believe a stime o' 't! Ye never was, and never was likly to be a cooard. I s' be at the boddom o' 't wi' whaever daur threpe me sic a lee!
Gien I ca'd ye a cooard, it was 'at ye behaved sae ill to Phemy. 'Eh, the bonny little Phemy! I had 'maist forgotten her! Hoo is she, Kirsty? 'She's weel and verra weel, answered Kirsty; 'she's deid. 'Deid! echoed Gordon, with a cry, again raising himself on his elbow. 'Surely it wasna it wasna 'at the puir wee thing cudna forget me! The thing's no possible! I wasna worth it!
With a curse caught from her husband, she struck him from the window, crying, "Ye s' no come in here, an' my man droonin' yon'er! Gang till 'im, ye cooard!" Never had poor Gibbie so much missed the use of speech. On the slope of the roof he could do little to force an entrance, therefore threw himself off it to seek another, and betook himself to the windows below.
With an effort he said coldly: 'If ye had stopped wi' us ye wudna ha'e been back at the beer an' broke yer pledge. 'Wha tell't ye I was at the beer? 'Yer breath, ye eediot! 'Ho! so ye was pretendin' ye was sleepin' when I spoke to ye! Cooard to smell a man's breath wi' yer eyes shut! Macgregor turned wearily away. 'It's nae odds to me what ye drink, he said.
I dinna mean Francie was a pettern, but, sir, he was no cooard and that I ken, for I 'm no cooard mysel, please God to keep me as he 's made me. But the laddie the man, I suld say he's no to be persuaudit oot o' the fancy o' his ain cooardice; and I dinna believe he'll ever win oot o' 't wantin the testimony o' his fellow-officers, wha o' them may be left to grant the same.
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