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"And don't tell them I was so very much disappointed about it," she said, trying to smile, when Annie rose to go. "They must be all the more glad to see me when I come. I couldna go, Annie. Now, do you really think I could?" They were up in the attic-nursery. Christie sat with the baby in her lap, while little Harry hung about her, begging to be taken up.
"I winna say," returned Andrew, "that I couldna live wantin' ye, for that wad be to say I wasna worth offerin' ye, and it would be to deny Him 'at made you and me for ane anither, but I wad have a some sair time! I'll jist speak to the minister to be ready the minute the Lord opens yer prison-door." The same moment in came the governor with his wife; they were much interested in Dawtie.
"Do you think we couldna' be better folk if we had no poverty?" "Ay, but the like o' us ken no better, an' it wadna' do if we had mair. We micht waste it," and the tone of resignation always maddened her to greater wrath. "There's mair wasted on fancy fal-lals among the gentry than wad keep many a braw family goin'. Look at the hooses we live in; the gentry wadna' keep their dogs in them.
"Aye," he said slowly, "there couldna' be bigger Magic than that there there couldna' be." He drew himself up straighter than ever. "I'm going to walk to that tree," he said, pointing to one a few feet away from him. "I'm going to be standing when Weatherstaff comes here. I can rest against the tree if I like. When I want to sit down I will sit down, but not before. Bring a rug from the chair."
"Certes, I can that," said Jock; "I can pit my haund on her in a meenit. But mind yer, when ye're mairret, dinna expect Jock Gordon to come farther nor the back kitchen." So grumbling, "It couldna be expeckit I canna be doin' wi' bairns ava' "Jock took his way up the long loaning of Craig Ronald, followed through the elderbushes by Ralph Peden.
After Mary had listened an hour, she suddenly interrupted Maggie. "You read that love scene with wonderful feeling. Had you ever a lover, Maggie?" "Maist girls have lovers. I couldna expect to escape. You will dootless hae lovers yoursel', ma'am?" "I had one lover, Maggie, not much of a lover, he wanted to marry Drumloch, not me." "That was a' wrang. Folks shouldna marry for gold.
"Fine do I ken Rob McDonald, an' a guid mon he is. Hoo was it that ye couldna slaughter stacks o' moose wi' him to help ye? Did ye see nane at all?" "Plenty, and one with the biggest horns in the world! But that's a long story, and there's no time to tell it now." "Time to burrn, Dud, nae fear o' it! 'Twill be an hour afore the line's clear to Charlo an' they lat us oot o' this.
He's a man noo, and weel luikit upo'; but it maks unco little differ to his parents! He's jist as dour as ever, and as far as man could weel be frae them he cam o'! never a word to the ane or the ither o' 's! Gien we war twa dowgs, he couldna hae less to say til's, and micht weel hae mair!
You'll take the first as comes if there's ever such a fool. Hazel wished she could tell him that one had asked her, and that no labouring man. But discretion triumphed. 'Maybe, she said tossing her head, 'I will marry, to get away from the Callow. 'Well, well, things couldna be dirtier; maybe they'll be cleaner when you'm gone. Look's the floor! Hazel fell into a rage.
I wasna at first a'thegither in such a laughin humour as my visitor, yet I couldna help joinin him in the lang run, whan we took twa or three guid roun's o't, an' then proceeded to business. Mr.
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