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It iss a wonder they will not have been hearing anything. 'There's the MacGregors' pony-cart at last, said Allan, 'with Marjorie and Hamish in it. Let's bring the boat to the landing-stones. They will leave the trap at Mrs. MacMurdoch's cottage until we come back.
His mother had left them, feeling that her presence might hinder conversation and lessen the comfort which Mr. Tregenza had brought. "I did ought to be chap-fall'n, I s'pose." "Iss, you did, my son, nobody more'n you. Maybe you'll live; maybe you'll die; but keep humble. I doan't wish to deceive 'e. Us ain't had time to make no certainty 'bout things.
"'Ere ask this native for 'is ticket," he said, on the arrival of that functionary. "Wot's 'e doing in 'ere with me?" "Ticket, please?" said the guard a very black Goanese. The Pathan produced his ticket. "Will you kindly see if there is another empty first-class carriage, Guard?" said he. "There iss one next a'door," replied the guard.
On each side of my long line I make me a half circle only half way round on the opposite sides. So, now, what I got, eh? You understand him?" I shook my head. He pointed in turn to the rude ornamentation in the shell clasp. I declare that then I could see a resemblance between the two designs! "It is curious," I said. "Mein Gott! it iss more than curious. It iss vonderful!
But I don't see what you stand to lose and anyway you'll get carried over those July payments," Newmark reminded him. Heinzman was plainly uneasy and slightly afraid of these new waters in which he swam. "If you reduce the firm's profits, he iss going to suspect," he admonished. "Who said anything about reducing the firm's profits?" said Newmark impatiently.
Lord save un! sich a man 'ud fetch up the divil hisself to see un pitched head foremost down to bottom o' say, which 'ud be the end I'd vote for un, and see it was carr'd out too iss, tho' his bones bore my own flesh and blid 'pon 'em, I wud;" and in his anger the old man's rugged face grew distorted with emotion. But Adam neither spoke nor made comment on his words.
"Now get up, Sheila, and go and tell Mairi we will have a bit of bread and cheese before going to bed. And there will be a little hot water wanted in the other room, for this room it iss too full of the smoke." Sheila, as she went out of the room, had her head cast down and perhaps an extra tinge of color in her young and pretty face.
"It iss the sign of a secret society; all Germans in High Ridge know that. It was that snake Hoffmann who stole poor Percy to kill him and hang him up in the room where they had their office." "How long has Karl been a member of the gang?" asked Mr. Cook. "Ever since Germany went to war with England," said Heinrich. "Nearly three years." "But he never talked as though he sided with Germany."
"And what about a kirk, Donald? Aren't you Free like Janet?" "Oh, yes, I am Free; but it iss not to that kirk I will be going most here, and I am telling Janet that she will be caring more about a man that hass a pleasant way with him than about the truth." "What's wrong with things, Donald, since we lay in Edinburgh twenty years ago, and you used to give me bits of the Free Kirk sermons?"
"She will be very pleased to hear such good news of you, and be saying that it iss a mercy you are getting somebody to dress you properly. But her temper will not be at all good, and I did not ask her about Lord Hay, and she said nothing to me, nor about any other lord. It iss not often I hef seen as great a liar as Donald Cameron.
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