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Over a maze of difficulties she glanced, and saw, at the end of every passage, the flinty countenance of Hermiston. And a kind of horror fell upon her at what she had done. She wore a tragic mask. "Erchie, the Lord peety you dear, and peety me! I have buildit on this foundation" laying her hand heavily on his shoulder "and buildit hie, and pit my hairt in the buildin' of it.
I have been foolish, Kirstie, but not unkind, and, above all, not base." "There's my bairn!" said Kirstie, rising. "I'll can trust ye noo, I'll can gang to my bed wi' an easy hairt." And then she saw in a flash how barren had been her triumph. Archie had promised to spare the girl, and he would keep it; but who had promised to spare Archie? What was to be the end of it?
I was dwalling then in my faither's house; and it's a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in the Deil's Hags. And do ye no think that I have mind of the bonny simmer days, the lang miles o' the bluid-red heather, the cryin' of the whaups, and the lad and the lassie that was trysted? Do ye no think that I mind how the hilly sweetness ran about my hairt? Ay, Mr.
How can ye come offerin' uz merrcy? For ye don't come out o' the tloister, like a poor Cat'lic priest or Sister. Ye come rright out o' the hairt o' the community that's a-committin' more crimes ag'in uz in here than all of us together has iver committed outside. Aw!
"Hoot toot mon, there's no use in making a secret of the maitter," returned the positive grenadier. "The soobject was discoosed after dinner yeesterday, and there was noobody preesent who didn't agree that if you had won her hairt you had geevin your own in exchange."
I have seen ye, and what's to prevent ithers! I saw ye once in the Hags, in my ain howl, and I was wae to see ye there in pairt for the omen, for I think there's a weird on the place and in pairt for pure nakit envy and bitterness o' hairt. It's strange ye should forgather there tae!
I have to get oot o' my bed to see the time." We. 'The broken hairt it kens Nae second spring again! She. "There's no' eneuch jugs i' the hoose." We. 'I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought In troth I'm like to greet! She. "The sink drain isna recht." We. 'An' it's oh! to win awa', awa', An' it's oh! to win awa'! She. "I canna thole a box-bed!" We. 'Ay waukin O Waukin O an' weary.
After he had seated himself in Turnbull's little sanctum, sacred to his antiquities, he delivered himself slowly of his professional opinion. 'He's bad, he said mournfully, 'verra bad, for the doctor was Scotch; 'he's had an unco shock' he glanced keenly at his companion as he spoke 'and a verra bad fall. His hairt is gey weak and he says if he disna recover he'll haunt ye for what ye've done.
Then he learned from a German prisoner that the author of the note was the flyer of a big Aviatic, and went and killed him in fair fight at a height of twelve thousand feet. "It was an engrossin' an' thrillin' fight," explained Tam; "the bluid was coorsin' in ma veins, ma hairt was palpitatin' wi' suppressed emotion.
'How do ye ken it's haunted? retorted my companion, whose hearing seemed to vary with his mood. 'And even if 'tis, there's naething can steer the maister, for tak awa Papistry, he has a hairt o' gold the bairns aboot here juist love him. 'So you're not a Papist? I inquired, smiling. 'No' me, responded he grimly.
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