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She sat at the foot of the bed listening. 'There! cried the soutar, triumphantly, 'I telled ye sae! Not ae word aboot the puir lad's sins! I expec' nae ring and nae robe, but I wad fain hae a fiddle i' my grup when the neist prodigal comes hame; an' gin I dinna fiddle weel, it s' no be my wyte. Eh, man! but that is what I ca' gude, an' a' the minister said honest man 's jist blether till 't.
But Ah didn't expec' yo' would evah see me, only the niggahs, an' I didn't care 'bout them. Ah always came when yo' were 'way or in bed." "Well, you've explained your interest in the place," Val assented, "but what about the rival? Why did he appear?" "It started in a blackmail plot. Your family have been wealthy, you know," explained LeFleur.
"No fear ob dat, sar," answered Cupid with a grin. "I shall take care dat dem do not know I, Cupid, am anywhere near dem. Dem shall neber suspec' my presence, sar; but I shall be dere, all de same, and shall take partikler care to hear eberyt'ing dat dem say, so dat we may know exactly when to expec' dem.
'He'll come! he whispered into his uncle's ear; 'and I shall say good-bye to the House and go. I'm only waiting. He'll come along that road. I come here to expec' him every day. Not a vestige of doubt in the eager happy voice. His uncle looked at him in wonder. 'How do you know he hasn't forgotten you? You have never got a letter from him, have you?
It was for a moment as if she saw the Father at the heart of the universe, with all his children about his knees: her pain and sorrow and weakness were gone; she wept glad tears over the brother called so soon from the nursery to the great presence chamber. 'Eh, bonny man! she cried; 'is 't possible to expec ower muckle frae your father and mine!
"Ye decoy't me intill the hoose o' ineequity!" was Peter's indignant reply; "an' it 's no what ye ever ga'e me cause to expec' o' ye, sae 'at I micht ha'e ta'en tent o' ye." "I thoucht nae ill o' 't," returned Malcolm. "Weel, I div," retorted Peter. "Then perhaps you are wrong," said Malcolm, "for charity thinketh no evil. You wouldn't stay to see the thing out."
The old woman had much ado to hide her joy over Ned's return. Ned coloured, and hung his head abashed. 'Oh, well, I expec' they can manage without me and Muster Alick! he stammered at last. 'That's true enough! Depend upon it, Ned, if the Lord needs you, He will shape the way for you, plain as plain.
Eighteen bottles go smash, and as de oder chiefs expec' deir present all de same, Sam hab ta go widout. De men start three weeks ago for coast. Me hope dey come back in six weeks more." "Well," Mr. Goodenough said, "you need not go without it till they come back, for I can give you eight bottles which will last you for two months.
Auld bairns as weel as yoong hae to be fed wi' the spune." The day before that on which he went, he seemed to wake up suddenly, and said, "Cosmo, I'm no inclined to mak a promise wi'regaird to ony possible communication wi' ye frae the ither warl', nor do I the least expec' to appear or speyk to ye. But ye needna for that conclude me awa' frae ye a' thegither.
But what for sud I no tak' it wi' composur'? We'll hae to tak' oor ain turn er lang, as composed as we hae the skiel o', and gang oot like a lang nibbit can'le ay, an lea' jist sic a memory ahin' some o' 's, Bawby." "I kenna gien ye mean me, Miss Horn," said the woman; "but it's no that muckle o' a memory I expec' to lea' ahin' me."
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