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Besides, 't is a dead-sure fact I'll have auld Morgan's place as head waterkeeper, an' the cottage along with it, in fair time." "Ban't for me to lift up no hindrances, but you knaw faither." "Ess, I do for a very stiff-necked man." "Maybe 't is so; but a gude faither to me." "An' a gude friend to me, for that matter. He aint got nothing 'gainst me, anyway no more 's any man living."
Now she turned sharp upon him. "Let me look at ye, Maister Ralph Peden. Whaur gat ye the 'Ralph'? That's nae westland Whig name. Aye, aye, I mind what's comin' o' my memory? It'll be your faither that you favour." And she turned him about for inspection with her hand. "Grandmother " began Winsome, anxious lest she should say something to offend the guest of the house.
Try and keep your mind off it, and go away to bed and rest." "But it'll kill my mither!" cried Mysie wildly. "Her no' kennin' where I am! If she could only ken that I am a' richt! She'll be worryin', an' she'll be lyin' waken at nicht wonderin' aboot me, an' thinkin' o' every wild thing that has happened to me. Oh, dear, but it'll break her heart and kill my faither." It needed all Mrs.
"Doan't mother I caan't stand no more on that head today. I'll dare anybody to name Providence more in my house, so long as 'tis mine. Theer's the facts to shout out 'gainst that rot. A honest, just, plain-dealin' man an' look at me." "Meantime we're ruined an' faither doan't hold out a finger." "Take it stern an' hard like me.
And that night when she put the child to bed "Now, my dear, ye see!" she said, "I told you what your faither would think of it, if he heard ye had fallen into this dreidful sin; and let you and me pray to God that ye may be keepit from the like temptation or strengthened to resist it!" The womanly falsity of this was thrown away.
"My feelings were in such a state that I couldna write mysel', and I got a minister to send a letter to my mother, puir woman, stating what had happened. An acquaintance o' my faither's looked after the cattle, and disposed o' them at Morpeth; and I, having hired a hearse at Alnwick, got the body o' my faither taen hame. A sorrowfu' hame-gaun it was, ye may weel think.
Whaur else should he bide but in the hoose that he was born in, an' his faither afore him? That would be a bonny like story. Na, na, ye'll juist bide, Maister Ralph, an' " "I must go this very night," said Ralph. "You mean well, John, but it cannot be. I am going down to see my uncle, Professor Thriepneuk." "Leave yer faither's hoose to gang to that o' a weezened auld "
"Not so gert as what I've got, I'll lay. Butivul litter 't is. Come an' give me a hand." "Bonus was catched poachin' last night to the Red House. An' he've had his faace smashed in, nose broke, an' all. He escaped arter; but he went to Doctor fust thing to-day an' got hisself plastered; an' then, knawin' 't weern't no use to hide, comed right along an' gived hisself up to faither." "My stars!
I must teach you to think better. You have a daughter who will comfort you, and whom you are bound to support and protect." "True, true," he cried; "I hae a dochter, and a better never sacrificed her ain thochts and feelins to the comforts o' a faither.
Ralph saw that Winsome and her grandmother were both genuinely interested in his father. "Ye maun mind that I yince kenned yer faither as weel as e'er I kenned a son o' mine, though it's mony an' mony a year sin' he was i' this hoose." Winsome looked curiously at her grandmother. "Aye, lassie," she said, "ye may look an' look, but the faither o' him there cam as near to bein' your ain faither "
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