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Dauvid proposed a vote o' thanks to Sandy; an' you wudda thocht a' the steam-engines atween this an' Glesca had gotten into oor washin'-hoose, wi' their whistles on full-cock. The noise was something terriple. I had to pet my fingers in my lugs, an' rin. Was ever a woman so provokit wi' a ramstam, dotrifeed gomeral o' a man?
Gordon said she was leavin' Glesca? 'I've forgotten. Yes, I believe it was the twenty-third, answered Teen listlessly, not being interested in the time. 'My, she'll see a lot, gaun to Ireland wi' a regiment. It's a lively life. I wish I was her. Teen turned sharply round, and looked with reproachful eyes into her companion's face. 'I thocht ye was gled to get away from her, Liz?
'Oh, there's thoosan's o' them, quoth Tammy enthusiastically. 'In the spring that hedge up the road will be thick wi' nests, filled wi' eggs o' a' kinds. 'Which ye'll leave alane, my man, or I'll warm ye, said his aunt, with a warning glance. 'Ay, my wummin, this is a hantle better nor the Trongate or the Briggate o' Glesca. An' what's the young leddy aboot this efternune?
It'll be the lad Wilkie; him 'at's mither mairit on Sam'l Duthie's wife's brither. They bide in Cupar, an' I mind 'at when the son was here twa or three year syne he was juist gaen to begin the diveenity classes in Glesca." "If that's so, Leeby, he would be sure to bide wi' Sam'l. Hendry, hae ye heard 'at Sam'l Duthie's expeckin' a stranger the nicht?"
Liz sprang up at once, and favoured the old miser with a gracious nod by way of farewell. 'Guid-nicht to ye, then, an' mind what I've said. I was in deid earnest, an' I'm richt, as ye'll maybe live to prove. An' mind that there's ower wee a pickle angels in Glesca for the ither kind, and we'd better tak' care o' what we hae.
I daresay, you guessed that, Lady Bridget? She tossed her head back impatiently. 'Oh what DOES that matter! Go on, please. 'He'd been a farmer, Glasgow way' McKeith still pronounced it 'Glesca, 'and my mother was a minister's daughter, as good a woman and as true a lady as ever breathed. But that's neither here nor there in what turned out a bad business.
"Sirr," amends Private Dunshie reluctantly. "I was no in the habit of scrubbin' the floor mysel' where I stay in Glesca'; and ma wife would be affronted " But the Captain looks up. He has heard enough. "Look here, Dunshie," he says. "Glad to hear you want to fight the Germans. So do I. So do we all. All the same, we've got a lot of dull jobs to do first." I have mine too.
'Naething very particular; but I am feared that she's wearyin' here, an' that she wants to get away back to Glesca, said Teen, with a slight hesitation, it must be told, since such an insinuation appeared to savour of the deepest ingratitude. 'Oh, do you think so? I thought she was quite happy. She certainly looks much brighter and better, and feels so, I hope.
'Fine; but, my, it's grand to see ye back, said Teen, with a boundless satisfaction. 'It's no' like the same place when ye are away. An' hoo's Glesca lookin' as dreich as ever? 'Quite. And oh, Teen, I have found Liz at last. I saw her last night in Berkeley Street. 'Saw Liz in Berkeley Street? Surely, never! repeated Teen, aghast. 'It is quite true.
As a matter of fact it was about twenty minutes before Mr Todd a typical Scotsman from head to heel, and speaking as broadly as though he had just arrived from `Glesca' instead of having been a resident in Kingston for a quarter of a century made his appearance. But I certainly did not regret the delay, for those twenty minutes were among the most pleasant that I had ever spent in my life.
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