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Updated: June 15, 2025
A neat line of flopping clothes glimmered in each back yard over the trim "green" that stretched across in front of the back door, and the irons were on in both kitchens preparing for a finish as soon as a "piece" should show signs of dry. "Hev ye haird whut the extra session meetin' was called for, Mary?" asked the older woman looking up from her mixing bowl.
But ye're well kenn'd for a leal, honest man; an' sae, I'se no be unco haird upon ye." So saying, the Factor made him a present of a couple of pounds of flour, half a pound of pork, half a pound of sugar, a quarter of a pound of tea, a plug of tobacco, and some matches. The Factor's generosity was prompted largely by his desire to keep the Indian in good humour.
"So ye've not haird?" gasped the fat young woman delightedly. "Feyther's deid o' his dropsy, and Alec and me's awa' to Canady this day fortnight." She panted it out with so honest a joy in the commotion, so innocent a disregard of the tragedy of death and emigration, that Yaverland and Ellen had to turn away and laugh; and he drew her across the road to the cottage.
Through the night her cry had been, "Ah, Terry, Terry, ye gev me manny a haird blow, darlin', but ye kep' th' hairdest til th' last!" It was not possible to avoid being irritated a little by such a woman, but I always tried to conceal this from her. I suppose she had a right to her own play-world.
But hae ye ne'er been tauld that the way o' the transgreesor is haird? and the wages o' sin is deeth?" said the "kindly" Scot. "But I do not deserve death! I never did kill anybody myself!" whimpered Faustina. "Wha the de'il said ye did? "But I have no right to be here. I never did anything, I, myself, to deserve such treatment. It was Lord Vincent's fault.
Nor would I have my wife exceeding faire, For then she's liquorish meate; & it would mad me To see whoremasters teeth water at her, Red haird by no meanes, though she would yeild money To sell her to some Jew for poyson. No, My wife shall be a globe terrestriall, Moving upon no axeltree but mine; Which globe when I turne round, what land soever I touch, my wife is with me, still Ime at home. Ten.
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