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The deeferenee iss it? The deeference iss here, that the pipes will neffer lie." There was a shout of laughter. "One for you, Kane!" cried the Reverend Harper Freeman. "And," he continued when the laughing had ceased, "we will have to take our share too, Mr. Munro." But the hour for beginning the programme had arrived and the secretary climbed to the platform to announce the events for the day.
"It is for you to decide, captain," said he cynically; "but this one will make no deeference. Yes, I would take him. It will not be far," he added, in a tone that was not the less detestable for being lowered. "Take them both!" moaned little Eva, putting in her first and last sweet word. "Then we all drown, Evasinha," said her stepfather. "It is impossible."
"'Reading mak'th a full man. Eh, what a deeference to the warld if Robbie Burns had aye preferred a book to a bottle." The bookseller refused to be beguiled from his just cause of complaint into the flowery meads of literary reminiscences and speculations. "You'll stop that dog's cleaving noise, Mr. Traill, or I'll appeal to the Burgh police." The landlord returned a bland and child-like smile.
You cannot expect one to set any value upon the life of a black nigger; and when you have keeled a great many Kaffirs, by the lash, with the crocodiles, or what-not, then a white man or two makes less deeference. I acknowledge there were too many on board that sheep; but what was one to do? You have your Engleesh proverb about the dead men and the stories; it was necessary to make clin swip.
Ye see, there's vast deeference between towin' a ship wi' men on her an' pickin' up a derelict a vast deeference in pounds sterlin'. Moreover, twa three o' the Grotkau's crew were burnin' to testify about food, an' there was a note o' Calder to the Board, in regard to the tail-shaft, that would ha' been vara damagin' if it had come into court. They knew better than to fight.
Then she was down in the grass, brooding over the little dog, and Bobby had the pathetic look of trying to understand what this emotional talk, that seemed to concern himself, was about. Tammy and Ailie were down, too. "Are ye thinkin' Bobby wall be kennin' the deeference?" Ailie's bluebell eyes were wide at the thought of pain for this little pet. "I do not know, my dear.
"And that is no lie, and a mighty good thing too it is," said Dr. Kane flippantly. "It iss no lie," replied the old piper with dignity. "And if you knew much about either of them you would say it deeferently." "Why, what is the difference, Mr. Sutherland?" said Dr. Kane, anxious to appease the old man. "They both are means of expressing the emotions of the soul, you say." "The deeference!
"I am hungry in my stomach, not in my heart," objected Petie. But Marie nodded her head sagely. "Yes," she said. "It is that you know not the deeference, Petie, bit-ween those. To be hongry at the stomach, that is made better when you eat cakes, do you see, or potatoes. But when the heart is hongry, then ah, yes, that is ozer thing."
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