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"Ay, an' they dinna seem to be up yet," said a third, "for I see the doors are still shut, an' the bairns are no' awa' to the school. They maun ha'e been awfu' tired to ha'e slept sae lang." "Let's gang doon and gi'e them a bit sang to help to keep their dreams pleasant," suggested Tam Donaldson, as they moved off down the row and stopped before Jock Graham's door.
"The gran' diffeeculty is hoo He can lat ilk ane tak' his ain gait an' yet luik efter them a'. But gien He does't, it stan's to rizzon it maun be in some w'y 'at them 'at's sae luikit efter canna by ony possibeelity un'erstan'." "That's trowth, I'm thinkin'. We maun jist gi'e up an' confess there's things abune a' human comprehension."
That's aye the way wi' Sandy, I can tell you. I aye expect that something will happen wi' him that I'm no' expectin'; so I find it best juist to lat him aleen. Next mornin' he gaed awa' gey early to get yokit, an' he took Bandy Wobster wi' him to gi'e him a hand.
But he had changed his mind, it would seem, in the interval; for when I glanced in that direction again he had moved toward us, and stood in the hall with his hat in his hand. I must do him the justice to say he looked horribly dismal, sulky, and frightened. 'Ye'll gi'e me a word, Miss only a thing I ought to say for your good; by , mind, it's for your good, Miss.
'Gi'e me yer size a hole in a bit pasteboard. . . . Speech failed him. 'Me? she murmured and shook her head. 'Ye're ower young, Mac, she said, gently. 'I'm a year aulder nor you . . . Christina, let's get engaged afore I gang say ye will! She moved a little way up the counter and became engrossed in the lurid cover of a penny novel. He moved also until he was directly opposite.
Sae the young laird sent his sister-in-law, as he calls her, up here to bide her lane, telling his feyther, the airl, he could na' turn his brither's widow out of doors. Which, ye ken, me leddy, sounded weel eneugh. Sae hither she cam'. And an unco' sair heart she's gi'e us a' sin' ever she cam'!" "Has she been here ever since?"
"Ay, he ran weel last year, but they tell me he'd like to get the Red Hose to his credit, though for my pairt they'd been far better to ha'e presented it to him, than to gi'e him it that way. Man, he's a dirty brute o' a man, Black Jock!" and there was disgust in his voice.
'She wasna as saft as I fancied she was, remarked Macgregor in an uncertain voice. 'So ye wud jist gang to yer aunt's for yer supper, efter a'? 'Ay! An' the auld cat was oot at a prayer-meetin'. I ha'ena had a bite in ma mooth since denner-time. Ha'e ye onything o' yer uncle's handy? 'I can gi'e ye a wee tin o' corned beef, Wullie. Ye ken whaur to find it. 'Least ye can dae, Willie growled.
Give me a pack and I'm all peddler and j'y in it, gi'e me a ship and I'm all mariner to handle her sweet and kind and lay ye a course wi' any though guns is my meat, Mart'n. Fifteen year I followed the sea and a man is apt to learn a little in such time.
Robbie laughed, waved his hand to the old people, who still sat at dinner, and made his way outside. Liza was there, looking curiously abashed, as though she felt at the moment prompted to an impulse of generosity of which she had cause to be ashamed. "Gi'e us a kiss, now, my lass," whispered Robbie, who came behind her and put his arm about her waist. There was a hearty smacking sound.
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