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chanted a siren, whose profession might be guessed by her appearance. A tattered caidie, or errand-porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of these scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta deil ding out her Cameronian een what gies her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"
"Take der dress off my back to sell, but not dot picture. Ve may as vell die before him goes, for we certainly vill after. Dot is de only ding left of der happy past. Dot, in Gott's hands, is my only hope for der future. Dot picture dells you vat you vas, vat you might be still if you vould only let drink alone.
"They even bought a bell for it, and it used to ding for the sheepmen and railroaders, as long as their religion lasted. When it ran out, the preacher moved on to fresh fields, and a rancher bought the bell to call his hands to dinner. The respectable element of Comanche that is, the storekeepers, their wives, daughters and sons, and the clerks, and others hold a dance there now twice a week.
"You may have the excuse if you weel leave Señor Carkaire to entertain us," murmured Juanita. "I'll remain here," nodded Greg. "I don't smoke." "Gol ding him!" growled Ephraim, as he followed Barney into the smoking compartment. "He's a bigger crank than ever! He's gittin' wuss and wuss!" "What he nades is a girrul to marry him and straighten him out," declared the Irish youth.
Mother has a headache; when I proposed reading to her, she very politely asked me if I would not let her remain alone. She says I always want to sing, read, or talk incessantly if she wishes to be quiet. I can't ding on the piano, for it is heard from attic to basement.
"And where could you find eighty pound?" "Auchty pund," cried she, "it's no auchty pund that will ding Christie Johnstone, laddy. I hae boats and nets worth twa auchtys; and I hae forty pund laid by; and I hae seven hundred pund at London, but that I canna meddle. My feyther lent it the king or the queen, I dinna justly mind; she pays me the interest twice the year.
What says the old stave? "'A German prince, a marquis of France, And a laird o' the North Countrie; A yeoman o' Kent, with his yearly rent, Would ding 'em out, all three." "Then," said Misander, with a good deal of malicious, intent, "you are quite sure your yeoman is not a pauper an adventurer " "Positive." "And a gambler." "No; I am not at all sure of that. But nobody is all-wise.
As for Catriona she seemed quite carried away; her laugh was like a peal of bells, her face gay as a May morning; and I own, although I was very well pleased, yet I was a little sad also, and thought myself a dull, stockish character in comparison of my friend, and very unfit to come into a young maid's life, and perhaps ding down her gaiety.
That ancient ditty, "The Yeoman's Wedding," that he had often heard Dr. Mangan sing, attacked him like an illness, and enforced its galloping metres on all he did. "Through the valley we'll haste, For we've no time to waste! For it is my wedding morning, my wedding morning!" "Ding dong! We'll gallop along!" Larry sang, and the Upper Housemaid said to her subordinate, "What a hurry he's in! Well!
The corporal came back into the room. "She'll be quiet now, sir," he said, "I told her to get you and the gentlemen a cup o' tea." Then, to Desmond, he said: "Nasty ding you got, sir! My word, I thought they'd done for you when I come in at the winder!" The telephone on the desk tingled sharply.
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