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She's got a philosophy of life, too. I don't know where she got it, or just what it is, but it's there. Oh, she's worth saving, Dominie." "If I hadn't reason to think you safeguarded, my young friend," said I, "I'd give you solemn warning." "Why, she's an infant!" returned the Little Red Doctor scornfully. "A poor, little, monkey-faced child. Besides " He stopped and sighed.
Before I had been eighteen months at school, the Dominie was unhappy without my company, and I was equally anxious for his presence. He was a father to me, and I loved him as a son should love a father, and as it will hereafter prove, he was my guide through life.
She was now far advanced in a second pregnancy, and, as she could not walk abroad herself, and the woman who attended upon Harry was young and thoughtless, she prayed Dominie Sampson to undertake the task of watching the boy in his rambles, when he should not be otherwise accompanied.
He will not be quite so handsome now, to be sure. It was now Julia's turn to look a little out of countenance at the chance hit of her learned admirer, but that instant the Colonel entered the room. 'I can hear nothing of them yet, he said; 'still, however, we will not separate. Where is Dominie Sampson? 'Here, honoured sir. 'What is that book you hold in your hand, Mr. Sampson?
He had passed, therefore, the turn of the road which led to that mansion, only edified by the distant appearance of the blue smoke curling against the pale sky of the winter evening, when he thought he beheld the Dominie taking a footpath for the house through the woods.
"Now, my fine fellow, you know what you deserve," said the Dominie, as Martin and the other men placed him on his feet. "You were employed by a greater rogue than yourself; but as you have failed in your undertaking, we do not want to be hard on you, and if you will tell us the intentions of your master, we will set you at liberty. But, if not ," and Mr Tidey pointed to the bough overhead.
His poor jackdaw with its chattering a sound once so monotonous and wearying, now most earnestly wished for was gone, but the murderer of his pet, the brutal Baudrons, was now closely stowed away under the main hatches of the Lydia, and the dominie had his revenge.
"His letter was so cunning," said John, "that without speiring her, it drew ane frae her in which she let out that she was centred on Davit Allardyce." "But who wrote Andrew's letter?" asked Mr. Cathro, sharply. "I thought it had been yoursel'," said John, and the Dominie chafed, and lost much of the afternoon service by going over in his mind the names of possible rivals.
Back-to-yer-worr-rr-rrk! Yerr-rr-rr-rr wrong! wrong! wrong! wrong!" "Wherefore," said the Bonnie Lassie, "your appellant prays that you be a dear, good, stern, forbidding Dominie and go over to Number 37 and ask him what he means by it, anyway, and tell him he's got to stop it."
We have a clever party to contend with; we must lose no time in gathering our information; for anything I know there may be something to be done before daybreak. 'I will order a horse to be saddled if you please, said the Colonel. 'No, no, time enough, time enough. But come, Dominie, I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelings.
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