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"She hasna a man-body in the world to take care o' her," sobbed the girl. "Has she no?" cried Tommy, fiercely, and under one of the impulses that so easily mastered him he marched into the blue-and-white room. "Well, my young friend, and what may you want?" asked Mr. McLean, impatiently. Tommy sat down and folded his arms.
Ye see, Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour, and Mr. Lovel, suld hae dined at Monkbarns" "But, Mrs. Mailsetter," again interrupted Mrs. Heukbane, "will ye no be for sending awa this letter by express? there's our powny and our callant hae gane express for the office or now, and the powny hasna gane abune thirty mile the day; Jock was sorting him up as I came ower by." "Why, Mrs.
The nearest Episcopal chapel was at Kelso, a distance of ten miles. The child still remained unbaptized. 'It hasna a name yet, said the ignorant meddlers, who had no higher idea of the ordinance. It was a source of much uneasiness to my wife, and gave rise to some family quarrelling. Months succeeded weeks, and eventually the child was carried to the Episcopal church.
But I would like to go alone, first." "My poor lamb! If I were but sure that I have been right," thought Janet, as she sat down to wait. An hour passed, and when the door opened, and Graeme came out again, the fears of her faithful friend were set at rest. "She hasna' been alone all this time, as I might have known," said Janet to herself, with a great rush of hidden tears.
It was a phrase much favoured by the master in present application foolish. "But perhaps your father does not mean to send you to college?" "My father hasna said, an' I haena speirt," answered Cosmo, with his eyes on his book. Still misinterpreting the boy, the conceit and ill-temper of the master now overcame him, and caused him to forget the proprieties altogether.
His voice broke, and I looked again to see two great tears rolling upon his cheeks. "Ah, Scotland!" he pressed on, heedless of them, "God aboon kens what she is to me! But she hasna' been ower guid to me, laddie." And he walked to the taffrail, and stood looking astern that two men who had come aft to splice a haulyard might not perceive his disorder.
"Ou, ay," said the wife-tamer, in the tone of a man who could afford to be generous in trifles, "women maun talk, an' a man hasna aye time to conterdick them, but frae that day I had the knack o' Chirsty." "Donal Elshioner's was a vary seemilar case," broke in Snecky Hobart shrilly. "Maist o' ye'll mind 'at Donal was michty plagueit wi' a drucken wife.
She says he's her brat; she thinks he's hers, and that he hasna been well come by." Tommy's hands rose in agony, and then he covered his face with them. "Go on, Corp," David said hoarsely; "we must have it all." "Sometimes," Corp went on painfully, "she canna help being fond o' him, though she thinks she shouldna hae had him.
Osbaldistone," said he, "contracted for the service of both your horse and you twa brutes at ance ye unconscionable rascal! but I'se look weel after you during this journey." "It will be nonsense fining me," said Andrew, doughtily, "that hasna a grey groat to pay a fine wi' it's ill taking the breeks aff a Hielandman."
"Why," said I to her, "they mean that he, perhaps, pursued the enemy too far or possibly that he may have fallen into their hands, and be a prisoner but that he had not cast up when the accounts came away." "Yes! yes!" she exclaimed with great bitterness, "and it perhaps means that his body is lying dead upon the field, but hasna been found."
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