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Maggie's jist an or'nar' girl, an' I'm jist an or'nar' chap that done a stupid thing because he couldna think what else to dae. Weel, ye'll sune forget me, an' maybe I'll sune forget you wi' the help o' a bullet 'Oh, dinna! she whispered. 'An' as for this' he picked up the ring and let it drop on the floor 'to hell wi' sich nonsense! and ground it under his heel.
Try as I would I couldna find ma way down Holborn to the Strand. I was glad tae see a big policeman looming up in the mist. "Here, ma chiel," I asked him, "can ye not put me in the road for the Strand?" He looked at me, and then began to laugh. I was surprised. "Has onything come ower you?" I asked him. I could no see it was a laughing matter that I should be lost in a London fog.
No lang syne I woke up i' my bed lauchin' like onything, an' Lisbeth thocht I wasna weel. It was something I dreamed 'at made me lauch, I couldna think what it was, but I laughed richt. Was that no fell like a humorist?" "That was neither here nor there," said Tammas. "Na, dreams dinna coont, for we're no responsible for them.
When I was about eighteen, I fell acquainted with a railway-guard, a winsome, manly lad as ever ye would wish to see. If ye had kent my Alick, ye wadna wonder at me for what I did. My father was a proud man, and he couldna bear that I should marry a man that he said wasna my equal in station; and in his firm, masterful way he forbade Alick from coming about the house, and me from seeing him.
His name was Samson, and if it had been Tamson she would hae ta'en him. Ay, you may look, but it's true. Her name was Turnbull, and she had another gent after her, name o' Tibbets. She couldna make up her mind atween them, and for a while she just keeped them dangling on. Ay, but in the end she took Tibbets. And what, think you, was her reason?
And it couldna be said that this was any groundless fear; for Miss Lizy, living a lonely maiden life by herself, with only a bit lassie to run her errands, and no being naturally of an active or eydent turn, aften wearied, and to keep up her spirits gaed may be, now and then, oftener to the gardevin than was just necessar, by which, as we thought, she had a tavert look.
And mair than that, if we had been o' Johnny Faa's gang, they couldna hae treated us mair disrespectfully than to condemn us to the death that they have decreed for us." "Providing ye die bravely, Simon," said the young laird, "it is little matter what manner o' death ye die; and as for your wife and weans, fear not; my faither's house will provide for them.
"And now here's a point that accounts for Sir Reginald giving no alarm Sir Reginald knew the man and couldna believe he meant mischief!" Ned looked at him quickly and curiously. "Well?" said he. "Is that not a fair deduction, Mr. Cromarty?" "Seems to fill the bill." "And now, here's a few personal details. Yon man was a fair active strong man to have dealt with the master the way he did.
"Ay; he was i' the shadow o' Captain Ogilvy and I couldna see his face, but I thought it like his voice when he first spoke." "Hoo can he hae come to ken aboot the jewels?" "That's mair than I can tell." "I'll bury them," said Swankie, "an' then it'll puzzle onybody to tell whaur they are." "Ye'll please yoursell," said Spink.
Are those gooseberries in that basket? Do they need picking? I can't cook, but I can pick gooseberries with any man living. Do let me! You said I was idling away my time. Give me a chance to work!" Mrs McNab grunted sourly. "There's no call for you to do anything of the sort. I never was one to take work upon myself that I couldna perform.
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