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You promised." Mr. Duthie looked quizzically at Gavin, and then at the sky. "The thaw may come at any moment," he said. "I think the frost is to hold," said Gavin. "It may hold over to-morrow," Mr. Duthie admitted; "but to- morrow's the Sabbath, and so a lost day." "A what?" exclaimed Gavin, horrified. "I only mean," Mr. Duthie answered, colouring, "that we can't curl on the Lord's day.
You quite frightened me." Gavin began to be less displeased with himself. "You are sure," inquired Babbie, "that you had no right to question me about the ring?" "Certain," answered Gavin. "Then I will tell you all about it," said Babbie, "for it is natural that you should want to know." He looked eagerly at her, and she had become serious and sad.
But you admit there is some one?" "Who would have me?" "You are wriggling out of it. Is it the banker's daughter?" "No," Gavin cried. "I hear you have walked up the back wynd with her three times this week. The town is in a ferment about it." "She is a great deal in the back wynd." "Fiddle-de-dee! I am oftener in the back wynd than you, and I never meet her there." "That is curious."
But it was not till I had run away from Glascow College, and shut the boards for good and all, as I thought, on my humane letters and history, and gone with cousin Gavin to the German wars in Mackay's Corps of true Highlanders, that I added a manlier thought to my thinking of the day when I should come home to my native place.
It was the time for which Gavin had waited. With perfect ease, now, he twisted the knife from the failing grasp, and, with his left hand, he reinforced the throat-grip of his right. As he did so, he got his legs under him and arose, dragging upward with him the all but senseless body of his garroted foe.
Now she wanted to run away with his love for her before he could take it from her, and then realising that this parting must be forever, a great desire filled her to hear him put that kiss into words, and she said, faltering: "You can tell me what it is if you like." "Not to-night," said Gavin. "To-night, if at all," the gypsy almost entreated.
Gavin bent his own head toward the cat and seemed about to resume his incantation. With a galvanic jump, the youth made answer: "Came by the path. Watched till the dawg run out in the road to bark at suthin'. This man," with a jerk of his head toward his captor, "this man went to the road after him. I cut across the grass, yonder, and got in. They come back. I hid me in there." "H'm!
You see, you have changed already." "How, mother?" asked Gavin, surprised. "You said just now that those were boyish speeches. Gavin, I can't understand the mothers who are glad to see their sons married; though I had a dozen I believe it would be a wrench to lose one of them. It would be different with daughters. You are laughing, Gavin!" "Yes, at your reference to daughters.
Gavin had come home just the night before for a week-end leave, and a telegram summoned him to rejoin his Battalion at once. There was a great stir at Craig-Ellachie. Hughie Reid hurried over as soon as the news reached him, and he sent one of his boys to fetch Mrs.
And her lips parted for some word of urgence. But before she could speak. Milo laughed loudly and caught Gavin by the arm. "You've got pluck, Brice!" he cried admiringly. "You're ashamed to give up and go to bed. But you're going just the same. You're going to get a good night's rest. I don't intend to have you fall sick. from that tap I gave you with the wrench. Come on!
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