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"It seems to me that you did all you could do, under the circumstances. Certainly the child was fortunate, for you have been very kind to the little waif." "We war mostly kind ter ourselves," was Big Jerry's simple rejoinder. "She shorely hes been a ray of sunshine in this hyar cabin 'specially since maw died three years ergone, since when Rose hes taken keer of hit, an' me.
"One day thu ole man goes shy on meat and goes out huntin'. He don't see no deer but he finds a mine just hes dum luck, ye see; he were lookin' fer chuck an' thu best he got was a stone! Well, he gits so axcited thet he tries to break a chunk offen thu laidge with his gun butt, an' thu blame ole shootin' iron jars loose an' blows hes fool wing off.
"Ye see the bridge hes been shaken wi' this winter's flood, and we daurna venture on it, sae we hev tae ford, and the snaw's been melting up Urtach way. There's nae doot the water's gey big, and it's threatenin' tae rise, but we 'ill win through wi' a warstle.
"Hurry out hyar. Dr. Mac hes come fer ter see ye." A sense of vague disappointment possessed Donald as he heard her lapse into the musical, but provincial, dialect; but, seeming to read his thought that the year of study had not been able to alter it, she whispered, "I always talk like I used to, to him, for he likes it best."
"But a man often comes tae his heicht through disappointment, and a woman, she hes tae learn that there is that which she hes the richt tae give for gratitude or friendship's sake, and that which can only be bestowed by the hand o' luve.
You might have come a little quicker, that's all I've got to say. "We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, and a' saw MacLure wes roosed. "'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to Mrs. 'Opps "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me though it be only a headache."
They aint nobody but confidential men ever get into that drift. Hes been stealing that ore for going on two years andll give you a lot of trouble if you dont mind your Ps and Qs. I hope you beat him out, and I pray for both of you. Your ever grateful, Pearl Walker. Dick suddenly crumpled the sheet of paper, and put it in his pocket.
Like that woman, whoever she may be, whatever happens, I will not blame you, Horace." "Good," I answered, "I have decided," and, stepping forward, I said: "We have taken counsel, Hes, and it is our will, who would learn the truth and be at rest, that thou shouldst unveil before us, here and now."
At last a woman, whose threescore years and ten was the only warrant for her rude interruption, exclaimed: 'Wheer's th' parson? Hes he forgetten, thinksto? 'Mr. Penrose is ill i' bed, replied old Joseph, 'but I seed Mr. Hanson fra Burnt Hill Chapel, and he promised as he'd be here in his place.
Now I observed lines of priests wrapped in great capes, kneeling upon the face of the rock and engaged apparently in prayer, but of Hes the Mother, or of Atene, or of the corpse of the dead Khan I could see nothing.
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