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"Now you hold your breath," the foreman said, "and I'll put you over on to the staging." So Davie held his breath and one of the shingle men came and held him by the arms when the foreman had set him down upon the boards. Then the foreman stepped upon the staging and put his arm around David again. "There!" said the foreman. "You've climbed your first ladder. Now we'll see about the shingling."
The words that rose to Violet's lips were kept back, as she looked from her mother's face to David's. But Frank could see nobody's face, and his own was very pale and anxious, as he listened to the happy tumult of voices around him. "Has Philip come home?" asked he, after a little. "Did he get my letter? Is it all right, Davie?" David laughed. "Oh, yes! it's all right.
One Sabbath-day in the beginning of the winter, when Mrs Fleming had gathered a little strength after her illness, grandfather and she, with Davie and Katie and their mother, went to the village church and sat down together at the table of our Lord.
On the 8th of September he left Camden, and toward the end of the month arrived at Charlottetown, in North Carolina, of which place he took possession after a slight resistance from some volunteer cavalry under Colonel Davie. Though symptoms of opposition manifested themselves at Charlotte yet he advanced toward Salisbury and ordered his militia to cross the Yadkin.
Hoo daur you say the like o'that? I ne'er saw the man's face until yestreen; you shouldna think ill o' folk sae easy." "What does he want here amang fishers? They dinna want him, I'm vera sure. There's nae room for gentlemen in Pittenloch." "Ask him what he wants. He pays for his room at Pittenloch; fourteen white shillings every week, he agreed wi' Davie for." "Fourteen shillings!"
But the hypothesis was entirely imaginary: Davie Gellatley was in good earnest the half-crazed simpleton which he appeared, and was incapable of any constant and steady exertion. The stamping of horses was now heard in the court, and Davie's voice singing to the two large deer greyhounds,
If you can manage your matrimonial affairs without all this fuss, Davie, I should advise you to do the same." "What are you hinting at? What new mystery is this?" cried Hume. "Let us keep to solid fact for the present," interposed the barrister. "I wish I had met you sooner, Mr. Frazer. I would be nearing Naples now, instead of entering Stowmarket Have you any further information?"
But Hughie, swaying gently back and forth, was measuring the distance of his drop. It was not a feat so very difficult, but it called for good judgment and steady nerve. A moment too soon or a moment too late in letting go, would mean a nasty fall of twenty feet or more upon the solid ground, and one never knew just how one would light. "I wudna dae it, Hughie," urged Davie, anxiously.
"Tisn't that," said little Davie, wriggling around to look up at her, "but Polly " and for a moment it seemed as if the floods were to descend again. "Oh, Polly is all right," said Mrs. Fisher cheerfully. "Is, she, Mamsie?" asked David doubtfully. "Yes, indeed, and you must see that you keep yourself right. That's all any of us can do," said Mother Fisher.
The Duke rose to go out, calling me with his eyes, but Bruce motioned him to stay, and he sat down and bowed his head, while Moore read the letter. His tones were clear and steady till he came to the last words, when his voice broke and ended in a sob: "And oh, Davie, laddie, if ever your heart turns home again, remember the door is aye open, and it's joy you'll bring with you to us all."
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