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I think Kitty Seymour would make a matrimonial agent par excellence young men and maidens introduced under the most favourable circumstances and no fee when suited!" Sandy flourished his arms expressively. "And if she could find a good, sensible lassie to tak' ye in hand, Sandy McBain, I'd no be grudgin' a fee." "No good, mother of mine.
"Well, that ain't all I ask of my confounded old self. Here, you're hungry you say s'pose you tell the truth sometimes; here you're down, and all the respectable people sittin' down hard on you; here you are in the devil's clutches, and he's got you half way toward the brimstone, and I'm grudgin' you a dinner, even when I know I've got to give it to you.
His voice was full of tears, and when he said "Amen," and Nimbus rose from his knees and put forth his hand to help him as he scrambled upon his bench, the cripple caught the hand and pressed it close, as he said: "Bress God, Nimbus, I'se seen de time often an' often 'nough when I'se hed ter ax de Lor' ter keep me from a-envyin' an' grudgin' de white folks all de good chances dey hed in dis world; but now I'se got ter fight agin' covetin' anudder nigga's luck.
Then she caught sight of Maggie, who had entered behind her father, and stood staring at her motionless, with a look of gladness indeed, but not all of gladness. "I ken fine," Isy broke out, with a trembling, yet eager, apologetic voice, "ye're grudgin me ilka luik at him! I ken't by mysel! Ye're thinkin him mair yours nor mine!
But ah, acushla, if we could be keepin' people that-a-way, would there be e'er a funeral iver goin' black on the road at all at all? I'm thinkin' there's scarce a one livin', and he as ould and foolish and little-good-for as you plase, but some crathur'ill be grudgin' him to his grave, that's himself may be all the while wishin' he was in it.
"Why, Susan Betts, I'm ashamed of you grudgin' that poor blind boy the comfort of a little sympathy! My John said yesterday " "'T ain't sympathy he needs. Sympathy's a nice, soft little paw that pats him to sleep. What he needs is a good sharp scratch that will make him get up an' do somethin'." "Susan, how can you talk like that?" "'Cause somebody's got to." Susan's voice was shaking now.
And now the tears were running down her face, and her voice lost its raucous shrillness, and became plaintive, and even soft. "I'm to tell you everythink I've seen, an' know about the Doctor.... I've seen 'im age, age, a bit more every d'y. I've seen 'im waste, waste, with loneliness and trouble never turnin' bitter on accounts of it never grudgin' 'elp that 'e could give to man or woman or kid.
Haudna the glaidness back that's sae fain to come to the licht i' yer grudgin hert, Maggie! God himsel 's glaid, and the Shepherd's glaid, and the angels are a' makin sic a flut-flutter wi' their muckle wings 'at I can 'maist see nor hear for them!" Maggie rose, and stood a moment wiping her eyes. The same instant the door opened, and James entered with the little one in his arms.
Then he answered her silent incitement in words: "Hit's too late, Dorothy.... I'd only git you kilt as well as me.... I reckon they hain't grudgin' you none, es things stands now." But the mob leader laughed, and turning his face to the wife, he ruthlessly tore away even that vestige of reassurance. "We hain't makin' no brash promises erbout ther woman, Thornton," he brutally announced.
One of 'em grunted "Yes" at me; and, after a while, the biggest asked me very grudgin' if I wouldn't light and eat, I told them "No," that I was travellin' in the cool of the evenin'. "You seem to have more meat than you need, though," says I. "I could use a little of that." "Help yourself," says they. "It's a maverick we come across."
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