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Updated: June 16, 2025
Now if you was to say to him bein' in his church an' all thet, I says, 'that you c'd get him the right kind of a hoss, he'd believe you, an' you an' me 'd be doin' a little stroke of bus'nis, an' a favor to the dominie into the bargain. The dominie's well off, I says, 'an' c'n afford to drive a good hoss." "What did the deakin say?" asked Aunt Polly as David stopped for breath.
Notwithstanding the Dominie's expostulations, I was quickly ready. The commandant was on foot. Sympathising with my anxiety, he at once ordered a horse to be saddled for me. The eight troopers who were to accompany us mounted, and directly afterwards a half-breed guide made his appearance.
Letts dropped his under jaw, his body relaxing in fear. He was an arrant coward like the most of his downtrodden race. Then something shifted through his thick brain, and he smiled knowingly. "So the high and the low air together eh? The Dominie's son, and the fisherman's brat the student and the " Before he had finished the sneering words, Frederick had struck him full in the face.
In heavy spates the children were conveyed to the old school, as they are still to the new one, in carts, and between it and the dominie's whitewashed, dwelling-house swirled in winter a torrent of water that often carried lumps of the land along with it. This burn he had at times to ford on stilts.
It was the time of year when the ground is carpeted beneath the firs with brown needles, when split-nuts patter all day from the beech, and children lay yellow corn on the dominie's desk to remind him that now they are needed in the fields. The day was so silent that carts could be heard rumbling a mile away.
Borrowing the Dominie's glass, I took a look through it, when to my dismay I perceived that the Indians were much nearer the train than we were, and might have time to swoop down upon it and be off again before we could arrive. My father apparently had not discovered them. While, however, I was still looking through the telescope, I saw the leading waggons stop and the others move up.
Tessibel forgot her lesson forgot all save the taunting face of the minister. She gave her familiar leap in the air and came down with a cry upon the Dominie's chest. "Ye'll kill him, will ye? Then I I air goin' to kill ye," and deep into the face of the minister sunk the ten little toad-tainted fingers.
Came Corp, with the astounding news that, in the Glenquharity dominie's opinion, Tommy should have got the Hugh Blackadder. "He says he is glad he wasna judge, because he would have had to give you the prize, and he laughs like to split at the ministers for giving it to Lauchlan McLauchlan." Now, great was the repute of Mr. Ogilvy, and Tommy gaped incredulous.
No one then imagined that a day would come when a critic might hint that the good Dominie's contributions to the early literature of New York might be just a shade gloomy and despairing in their views of the fearfulness of the after-life.
"Pretty slippers, aren't they, Wilbur?" "Charming, my dear." Margaret was so pleased that she tried to do something very amiable. "That was funny, I mean what you said about the Syrian girl at the Dominie's," she volunteered, and laughed, without making a crease in her fair little face.
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