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Against this garbling of my report done by the President's own order I strongly demurred; and this emphatic protest marks the beginning of Mr. Johnson's well-known personal hostility toward me. "MAJOR-GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, "Commanding Mil. Div. of the Gulf, "New Orleans, La.
"It'll break for us soon, at any rate," went on Dundee, "for by to-morrow night the matter will be settled between General MacKay and me. Div ye mind, Jock, how I fain would have fought with him at The Hague, and he wouldna take my challenge?" "Cowardly and cold-blooded Whig like the lave o' them," burst out Jock, in a strong reaction from his former mood of tenderness.
For the cowherd, however, as I say, the idea had no small attraction, and his stare was the reflection of Mistress Jean's own for the soul is a live mirror, at once receiving into its centre, and reflecting from its surface. "Div ye railly think it, mem?" said Donal at last.
It cam into my mind that the Prince micht be appointin' the new colonel to the Scots Brigade this mornin', and so I just happened to give a cry on an Angus man who is gettin' his bit livin' as a servant to one of the aides-de-camp. He is called a Dutchman, but has honest Scots blood in his veins. 'Div I no? said Patrick Harris.
Still Gibbie only smiled. "Whaur come ye frae? Wha's yer fowk? Whaur div ye bide? Haena ye a tongue i' yer heid, ye rascal?" Gibbie burst out laughing, and his eyes sparkled and shone: he was delighted with the herd-boy, and it was so long since he had heard human speech addressed to himself! "Puir thing! puir thing!" he added aloud, and laid his hand on Gibbie's head.
MacLear, we may even now look to God for what we ought to say, as confidently as if, like the early Christians, we stood accused before the magistrates?" "I div that, Maister Jeames!" answered the soutar. "Hide yersel in God, sir, and oot o' that secret place, secret and safe, speyk and fear naething. And never ye mint at speykin doon to your congregation.
There was many a dull ride even to Bucy-le-Long. An expedition to the Div. A ride to Corps Headquarters was only dangerous because of the innumerable and bloodthirsty sentries surrounding that stronghold. One afternoon a report came through to the Division that a motor-car lay derelict at Missy. So "the skipper" called for two volunteers who should be expert mechanics.
"I really have no idea," said Mr. Blake. "What was it?" "'Div ye think, says I, lookin' fair at him, 'div ye think I tak Dauvit for a paittern? and it did for him. 'I'll hae to be gaein', says he, 'I hae a funeral. 'Aye, says I, 'ye'd better hae a funeral' an' we haena spoken to ane anither since." "That's a pity," said Mr.
"But don't you remember the legend of the Div, who took the beautiful form of a minstrel and appeared before king Kawus?" "Of course," cried Araspes. "Cyrus had this legend so often recited at the banquets, that I know it by heart. "Kai Kawus hearkened to the words of the disguised Div and went to Masenderan, and was beaten there by the Divs and deprived of his eyesight."
'Jean's a Lanerick wumman, he added, 'she's in service in the Pleasance. Aw 'm ganging to my Jo. Ye'll a' hae Jos, billies? 'Aw 'm sayin', the intoxicated rough persisted, 'ye're no a Lanerick man. Ye're the English gentleman birkie that cam' to Kirkburn yestreen. 'Me ane o' the polis! Aw 'm askin' the company, div a look like a polisman?
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