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The soft affection which the duchess bore to her was informed with a slight touch of envy of a complexion that could be torn with tears one minute, and the next be fit to show in public. No other thing made her regard her friend as a southern that is, a foreign-woman. "Be patient," Laura said. "Cry; you need not be restrained," said Amalia. "You sighed." "No!" "A sort of sigh. My fit's over.
To Dickson's surprise Dougal seemed to be in good spirits. He began to sing to a hymn tune a strange ditty. "Class-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be Till our fit's on the neck o' the Boorjoyzee." "What on earth are you singing?" Dickson inquired. Dougal grinned. "Wee Jaikie went to a Socialist Sunday School last winter because he heard they were for fechtin' battles.
The consequence of this has been that I begin to measure the temerity of my having saddled you with a knowledge that you may find something of a burden. Now that the fit's over I can't imagine how I came to be moved so much beyond my wont. I had never before mentioned, no matter in what state of expansion, the fact of my little secret, and I shall never speak of that mystery again.
Thin he'll come over to me an' say, 'I'm goin' to Bombay. Answer for me in the mornin'. Thin me an' him will fight as we've done before him to go an' me to hould him an' so we'll both come on the books for disturbin' in barricks. I've belted him, an' I've bruk his head, an' I've talked to him, but 'tis no manner av use whin the fit's on him.
Idleness is the devil or mother of him. I manage my estates; but the truth is, it doesn't occupy my mind. 'Your time. 'My mind, I say. 'Whichever you please. 'You're crusty to-day, Redworth. Let me tell you, I think and hard too, when the fit's on me.
"I maun alloo, hooever," the old woman went on, "'at ance ye get a haud o' THEM, they tak a grip o' YOU, an' hae a queer w'y o' hauntin' ye like, as they did the man himsel', sae 'at ye canna yet rid o' them. It comes only at noos an' thans, but whan the fit's upo' me, I canna get them oot o' my heid. The verse gangs on tum'lin' ower an' ower intil 't, till I'm jist scunnert wi' 't.
Julaper; and I know I'm to blame." "That's quite right, that's spoken like a wise lad; only I don't say you're to blame, nor no one; for folk can't help frettin' sometimes, no more than they can help a headache none but a mafflin would say that and I'll not deny but he has dowly ways when the fit's on him, and he frumps us all round, if such be his humour. But who is there hasn't his faults?
The soft affection which the duchess bore to her was informed with a slight touch of envy of a complexion that could be torn with tears one minute, and the next be fit to show in public. No other thing made her regard her friend as a southern that is, a foreign- woman. "Be patient," Laura said. "Cry; you need not be restrained," said Amalia. "You sighed." "No!" "A sort of sigh. My fit's over.
While the fit's on him, let 'em fight it out. And what can he be to the likes of you?" "He's always been a friend of mine," she said. "He's been very foolish, very wicked; he had no business whatever to do as he did to put me in the wrong. I'm angry with him, and he will see that I am. But " Mrs. Benson knew the force of that "but." It had brought the young lady to Wanless. Yet Mrs.
Eh!" she went on, still louder, as she caught up her knitting from the table, "but she'll ne'er knit the lad's stockin's, nor foot 'em nayther, while I live; an' when I'm gone, he'll bethink him as nobody 'ull ne'er fit's leg an' foot as his old mother did. She'll know nothin' o' narrowin' an' heelin', I warrand, an' she'll make a long toe as he canna get's boot on.
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