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"Weel, Peter, a' 'at I can say is, I ken my ain hert, an' ye dinna ken't." "Daur ye tell me!" cried Peter. "Disna the Scriptur' itsel' say the hert o' man is deceitfu' an' despratly wickit: who can know it?"
There's one young man who's just daft about me he's young, and he's lovely, and he's got ten million and a hef dollars, and I've tried to love him." She sighed despairing. "I've tried hard, but I ken't!" Elm a struggled between disapproval, curiosity, and a shocking mingling of something else, which was not, could not possibly be, envy of such adventures!
I'm a deil, I ken't. But I think naething o' the puir sailor lads; I'm wi' the sea, I'm just like ane o' her ain Merry Men." I thought I should touch him in a joint of his harness. I turned me towards the sea; the surf was running gaily, wave after wave, with their manes blowing behind them, riding one after another up the beach, towering, curving, falling one upon another on the trampled sand.
It added hugely to the bitterness of being thus rebuked, that he had never in his life seen such a radiance of beauty's softest light as shone from the face and form of the reproving angel. "Only She canna be an angel," he said to himself; "or she wad ha'e ken't better."
Then she caught sight of Maggie, who had entered behind her father, and stood staring at her motionless, with a look of gladness indeed, but not all of gladness. "I ken fine," Isy broke out, with a trembling, yet eager, apologetic voice, "ye're grudgin me ilka luik at him! I ken't by mysel! Ye're thinkin him mair yours nor mine!
The cosy fireside, with its bonnie, blithe blink, where no care could abide, but only peace and love, was vividly present to her, and as she sang we saw it too. When she came to the last verse 'When I draw in my stool On my cosy hearth-stane, My heart loups sae licht I scarce ken't for my ain,
We've been a bit fratchetty this last week; gotten on each other's nerves somehow but when I come back we can make a fresh start. In America, girls have more liberty than over here; but there's not a mite of reason why we should quarrel over it. You're my own Poppar's sister, and I came quite a good way to see you. It's a pity if we ken't pull it off for the next few months.
We ken't blame ourselves for that; if the truth's told, I expect we are proud of it, but it makes it impossible to feel the same way. We're bound to jolt up against each other every time we dip below the surface." "You find it impossible then to think of me as a friend?" To his own amazement there was a touch of genuine anxiety in Guest's voice.
"I ken't fine there was somebody frae Ameriky i' these pairts," said Gavin. "Brownie Telfer tell't me there was a saxpence i' the plate last Sabbath day. It'll be yir ain?" "No, I'm afraid I cannot claim it," said Mr. Blake. "I only landed yesterday." "Ye'll be rinnin' aboot at a graun rate," said Gavin, trying a new vein; "came ower a sicht seein', did ye?" "No," said Mr.
Saunders, who knew himself the cause of this question, replied, sotto voce, "His lordship is a viscount." "I didna ken't," was Jean's remark. "But it has a bonny soond." "What mair would ye hae?" said the fair beauty, whose name was Christie Johnstone. Then, appealing to his lordship as the likeliest to know, she added, "Nobeelity is jist a soond itsel, I'm tauld."
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