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So, there was ae night that my faither cam' hame frae Edinburgh, and, according to his custom, he had a drap in his e'e yet no sae meikle but that he could see a lad or twa hingin' about the house. He was very angry; and, 'Kirsty, said he, 'I dinna like thae youngsters to come about the house. "'I'm sure, sir, said she, 'I dinna encourage them.
Mother won't never turn against me, an' so long as your faither can forgive, the rest of the world's welcome to look so black as it pleases." "Faither'll forgive 'e." "He might just wance more. He've got to onderstand my points better late days." "Come an' sleep then, an' fret no more till marnin' light anyway." "'Tis the thing hidden, hanging over my head, biding behind every corner.
"I'm no feared of folk," he went on, with a faint return to his swagger. "But things get in on me. A body seems so wee compared with that" he nodded to the warring heavens. The baker did not understand. "Have you seen your faither?" he asked. "My faither!" John gasped in terror. If his father should find him playing truant! "Yes; did ye no ken he was in Skeighan?
"I was acquaint wi' her faither, auld Tenshillingland owre at Fechars a grand farmer he was, wi' land o' his nain, and a gey pickle bawbees. It was the bawbees, and not the woman, that Gourlay went after! It was her money, as ye ken, that set him on his feet, and made him such a big man. He never cared a preen for her, and then when she proved a dirty trollop, he couldna endure her look!
Job had delivered his message to the "boss" of the tunnel and was hurrying back to the cage, when a half-naked miner, all stained with the ever-dripping ooze from above, stopped him and said: "Be ye the faither that prayed Yankee Sam t'rough?" "Why yes, and no," answered Job. "I was with Yankee Sam when he died, but I'm no priest or parson."
It was early on the following morning that Meikle-mouthed Meg, as she was called, requested an interview with her father, which being granted, after respectfully rendering obeisance before him, she said "So, faither, I understand that it is your pleasure that I shall this day become the wife o' young Scott o' Harden.
It was a condition, though whether physical or mental he only knew, to which Will reduced Mr. Blee upon every occasion of their meeting. "You hold your jaw an' let me talk to Mr. Lyddon. 'Tis like this, come to look at it: who should work for 'e same as what I would? Who should think for my wife's faither wi' more of his heart than me?
Now her faither, though a ceevil and a kind man, was also a shrewd, sharp-sighted, and determined man; and he saw the flutter that had risen up in the breasts o' his daughter and the young tutor. So he sent for Sandy, and without seeming to be angry wi' him, or even hinting at the cause
"Indeed an' I hadn't. An' I'd be sorrerful if I thot you thot so." She walked to the old position before the gorse and fell naturally into it, speaking the while. "Tis this way: mother's been bad wi' faace ache arter my brother Tom went to sea wi' faither.
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