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The brave future of which we dreamed in our dour and uncommunicative souls seems as remote as ever, and the present has settled down into a permanency. To-day, for instance, we have tramped a certain number of miles; we have worked for a certain number of hours; and we have got wet through for the hundredth time.
"There was gude and bad then, as now, gudeman." Mysie's face had a dour, determined look that no one had ever seen on it before. Andrew began to feel irritated at her. "What do you want, woman?" he said sternly. "I want my bairn, Andrew Cargill." "Your bairn is i' some far-awa country, squandering his share o' Paradise wi' publicans and sinners."
Man, what a noise it was! And then down came the rope, and I fell; and I got sich a dour on the head! 'Nothing but bats! said Rob, contemptuously. 'I think it was houlets, said Duncan, confidently; 'for there was one in the wood when I was gaun through, and I nearly ran my head against him. He was sitting in one of the larches man, he made a noise!
He was a Scotchman from Ayr, dour enough, and little disposed to be communicative, though I tried him with the "Twa Briggs," and, like all Scotchmen, he was a reader of "Burrns." He professed to feel no interest in the cause for which he was fighting, and was in the army, I judged, only from compulsion.
If Demos can only get into the country in peace and taste the barley-cakes again, he will soon find out of what blessings you have rid him by your briberies; he will come back as a dour farmer and will hunt up a vote which will condemn you." Cleon, the new Themistocles, is deposed from his stewardship.
Then: "Hovey, were you here in my father's time?" "I was under-parlourmaid, sir," she said. "And you are housekeeper now good!" The face of the woman crimsoned, hiding her dour wrinkles. She turned away her head. "I'd have given my right hand if he hadn't gone, sir." Gaston whistled softly, then: "So would he, I fancy, before he died.
It is a holy relic, and the Maharajahs of Dour have worn that in turn for hundreds of years." "Well, you put it away," said Glyn; "and I wouldn't show it to anybody again, nor yet talk about it. I wonder the dad let you have it." "Why?" said Singh proudly. "It is mine." "Yes, of course; but it is not suited for a boy like you." "A boy like me!" cried Singh half angrily. "Why, I am as old as you."
And with that he crawled away, with the unnecessary stealth of a small boy playing robbers, to encourage his dour paladins to further efforts. "We shall probably be relieved this evening," he explained to them, "and we must make everything secure. It would never do to leave our new positions untenable by other troops. They might not be so reliable" with a paternal smile "as you!
"It is a gentleman in a great hurry, your honour," Timothy explained. Crawshay, dour and threatening, came a little further into the room. Behind him in the hall was a vision of his escort. Sir Denis looked up from the hearth with a poker in his hand. "My friend," he observed, "it seems to be your unfortunate destiny to be always five minutes too late in life."
Auld, auld Elliotts, clay-cauld Elliotts, dour, bauld Elliotts of auld!" All the time she sang she looked steadfastly before her, her knees straight, her hands upon her knee, head cast back and up. The expression was admirable throughout, for had she not learned it from the lips and under the criticism of the author?
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