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Already the first drops were rattling sharply on the breaker's roof, and warning puffs of wind were beating gently against the side of the shaft-tower. "I'm glad Ralph's no' workin' i' the screen-room," said Bachelor Billy, as he put up his hand to shield his eyes from the blinding glare. "It'd be a fearfu' thing to ha' the breaker hit." The fury of the storm was on them at last.
You're a gude huntsman, and sae is his Majesty; but there's ae kind o' game he likes better than anither, and that's to be found maistly i' these pairts I mean witches, and sic like fearfu' carlines. We maun hae the country rid o' them, and that's what his Majesty intends, and if you're a wise man you'll lend him a helping hand. But I maun in to disjune."
'MacCallum, ye limb of Beelzebub, said the fearfu' Sir Robert, 'bring Steenie the pipes that I am keeping for him! MacCallum brought a pair of pipes might have served the piper of Donald of the Isles.
Lawson, guid godly Lawson, had tied the knot, an' we war a' merry like; but it was a fearfu' spate, and the Nith went frae bank to brae. 'They are comin! was the cry. I kenna wha cried it, but a voice said it, an' twenty voices repeated it. Lag an' his troop's coming; they're gallopin owre the Cunning-holm at this moment.
See," she said, producing the sacred volume, "the book opens aye at the place o' itsell. O see, Jeanie, what a fearfu' Scripture!" Jeanie took her sister's Bible, and found that the fatal mark was made at this impressive text in the book of Job: "He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone.
"It maun hae a fearfu' haud o' ye when ye cam' oot at sic an oor," he said at length, half to himself. "But it clean spiled a graun' nicht for me to see ye slippin' ben. It was a graun' nicht up till that. I canna jist mind if it was a funeral or a weddin' but it was fair graun'. We drinkit the health o' ane anither till there wasna ache or pain amangst us, but this spiles it a' for me.
"Gude guide us!" he exclaimed. "This is fearfu' wark! The hellicat hempies are half starved!"
As she finished speaking, she looked so faint and weary that Margaret became alarmed. 'It's nout, said Bessy. 'It's not death yet. I had a fearfu' night wi' dreams or somewhat like dreams, for I were wide awake and I'm all in a swounding daze to-day, only yon poor chap made me alive again. No! it's not death yet, but death is not far off. Ay!
They came, however, to the conclusion, by no ratiocination, I think, but by a conviction which the idea itself brought with it, that the stranger was the Lord himself, and that the pack on His back was their sins, which He was carrying away to throw out of the world. "Eh, wasna it fearfu' He should come by jist when we was fechtin'!" said Sandy. "Eh, na! it was a fine thing that!
Another moment and he heard the door opposite unbolted, and a perturbed but angry voice rose outside his door: 'What the devil are ye up to? Are ye playing a trick on me, Minister? What was that fearfu' noise? 'I'm playin' nae tricks on ye, replied the Minister, as he opened the door and stood face to face with his guest, whose face was plainly agitated by fear and anger.
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