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She could not see their faces for their backs were toward her, but now and again the Gainer's velvet voice rose blandly, and each time she was seized with shuddering. How was it possible that he did not feel disaster in the air?
There was a pause of utter stupefaction; then, from all within hearing, a clamorous outburst: "It is the Gainer's luck again!" "The messenger knew what he was saying!" "No sharpness of wit can comprehend it!" "It is the magic of his flattering tongue." "A hundred tongues had done no harm if Edmund " The voices sank into a snarling undertone: "Ay, there it is!" "Ethelred's blood!"
"That's Arthur," Anna said. "No shinny th' day, mind ye." I joined Arthur and we sat on the wall of Gainer's pigsty. We hadn't been there long when "Chisty" McDowell, the superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School, was seen over in Scott's garden rounding up his scholars. We were in his line of vision and he made for us. We saw him coming and hid in the inner sanctum of the sty.
Her pulses began to pound in a furious dance as the same flash of intuition showed her the rock upon which the Gainer's audacious steering was going to wreck him. For no skulking guilt was in the face of the new King of England as he met the startled glances, but instead a kind of savage joy that widened his nostrils and drew his lips away from his teeth in a terrible smile.
"It has happened, then, that the news has spread? I wonder whether they are troubling themselves most for fear that I shall undertake this fight and get killed, or for fear that I shall turn back from it and the war will be obliged to go on. And I should be glad if I knew what expectation was uppermost in the Gainer's mind when he made the plan. For certainly one sees his claw behind the pen."
He said with slow contempt, "I grant that it is well fitting the Gainer's deeds that his men should flinch from the light " "Misgreet me not," the mocking voice interrupted. "Before cockcrow we shall be sworn brothers. I bear a message to King Edmund. And I want you to further me on my way by telling which direction will fetch me to his camp."
"An oul cow put 'er feet in it," he said. Anna took a taste. "She didn't keep it in long aither," was her comment. "D'ye iver mind seein' barley in Gainer's broth?" Jamie asked. "I haave no recollection." "If there isn't a kink in m' power of remembrance," Jamie said, "they've had nothin' but bacon an' nettles since th' big famine." "What did th' haave before that?" Anna asked.
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