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"Can you carry the scheme without me?" said Gibson. "A word from me to Goudie means a heap." There was a veiled threat in the remark. "Oh, we'll come to terms," said the other. "But how will you manage Gourlay?" "Aha!" said Gibson, "I'll come in handy for that, you'll discover.
Then she thought that very probably the girl was wandering about with the children, or gossiping with the maid at the dairy; but then old Mrs. Goudie, who had come to pay a call at the back door, said she had met Norah and had a chat with her "up th' road." On being further examined, Mrs.
Goudie had heard him, after a most dreadful quarrel, praying out loud in his room up-stairs. "An' believe me, sir, he was a praying for his son all the time imploring of the Lord to soften his heart like, and save him from the hell-fire that his conduct asked for. You know, sir, he's a very God-fearing man, Mr. Bates." The action of the Dales in regard to Norah Veale did not pass unnoticed.
Don't see why we shouldn't keep a cow or two and poultry and cultivate the bees a bit. Kitchen garden too. And, look here, I've engaged Mrs. Goudie to come every day instead of twice a week and we shall want a nurse." But Mavis flatly refused to have any hired person coming between her and the transcendent joy of her life.
They mean to keep it in their own hand." Wilson's mouth forgot to shut, and his eyes were big and round as his mouth in staring disappointment. Was it this he was wasting his drink for? "Where do I come in?" he asked blankly. Gibson tossed off another glassful of the burning heartener of men, and leaned forward with his elbows on the table. "D'ye ken Goudie, the Company's manager?
"I mean, whatever she said and whenever she said it about ghosts or hauntings." "Oh, a long time ago. It was to Mrs. Goudie." "I expect you misunderstood her. But I'd like to know what first put such nonsense into your head that Mrs. Dale thought the wood was haunted. Can't you remember exactly what she did say?"
Gardener's gravestone, 34. Gaskell's "Prymer," 54. Germany, 91, 92, 95, 96. Goudhurst, 16. Goudie, G, 101. Gravediggers, 64. Graves, Dr., 100. Gravesend, 21, 34.
She can't go to her work, and there's not so much as a bite of bread or a sip of milk in the house." Mrs. Goudie declared that Mavis was often imposed upon; and, although Mavis herself wished to give wisely rather than blindly, endeavoring to govern warm impulse with cold reason, certainly very few people went away from the Vine-Pits back door empty-handed.
Goudie, though only twenty-one, was a most capable naval architect, born in Canada and taught his profession in Scotland. His father was a naval architect before him and had built several British vessels on the Great Lakes for service against the Americans during the War of 1812.
She had been summoned from the kitchen just before leaving for the night; and with her shawl over her head, her wrinkled face working, and her bony hands clasped she stood near the table and waited for Mr. Dale to give the signal for her to withdraw. "If you should see him, at any time, let me know, Mrs. Goudie." "I will, sir."
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