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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Well, it isn't difficult to see what she's been about!" said Stolpe teasingly. "One has only to look at the lass's peepers such a pair of glowing coals!" Otto Stolpe, the slater, was spokesman, and opened the banquet by offering brandy. "A drop of spirits," he said to each: "we must make sure there's a vent to the gutter, or the whole thing will soon get stopped up."
We sat down to a meal of roasted fowl, very tasty, and a very good drop of spirits to it, and I would be laughing inside of myself because of the boldness of McKinnon to be praising his wife's cooking before his ain mother, and Mirren was greatly pleased too; indeed, many's the time I will be thinking that the road to a quiet lass's heart will be to praise her cooking.
Single-minded Luke answered that he did not want the poor lass's prayers he did it to please his mistress, Margaret. After that Luke often pressed Margaret to give him something to do without success. But one day, as if tired with his importuning, she turned on him, and said with a look and accent I should in vain try to convey: "Find me my boy's father." "Mistress, they all say he is dead."
Black George's pipe shivered to fragments on the floor, and as he leaned forward I saw that his great hands were tightly clenched. "Gaffer," said he, in a strangled voice, "what do 'ee mean?" "I means what I says, Jarge." "How do 'ee know?" "Bean't I the lass's gran'feyther?" "Be ye sure, Gaffer quite sure?"
Parson, he was South country; and when his time came to kiss the bride, he stood and looked ever so helpless, and I had to tell him he must kiss her; and even then he stared foolish-like a bit before he kissed her, and the poor lass's face getting up and the tear in her eye at being slighted.
He received twenty-four pounds per week, out of which he paid Jael six, in spite of her "How can a lass's work be worth all that?" and similar remonstrances. Being now once more a workman, and working with this loyal lass so many hours a day, his spirits rose a little, and his nerves began to recover their tone. But meantime Hill was maturing his dark design.
But a knew how that my lass had taken his wife into her bed, and nursed her through her sickness night and day, after the hard words he had spoken unto her and the ill names he had called her. And that was all I cared to know. He had set th' iron in my lass's heart, and now 'twas in his own; and for th' rust, it did but hurt him more. Ay, ay, comrade, thou knowest what I do mean.
I made the best face I could, for the lass's sake and my own credit; but the truth is I felt like a lost sheep, and my heart beat in my bosom with anxiety. Once or twice I inquired after the harbour or the berth of the ship Rose: but either fell on some who spoke only Hollands, or my own French failed me.
The four males of the litter were soon sold; for there is a brisk and a steady market for good collie pups. One of the two other females died. Lass's remaining sister began to "shape up" with show-possibilities, and was bought by the owner of another kennel. Thus, by the time she was five months old, Lass was left alone in the puppy-run. She mourned her playmates.
I made the best face I could, for the lass's sake and my own credit; but the truth is, I felt like a lost sheep, and my heart beat in my bosom with anxiety. Once or twice I inquired after the harbour or the berth of the ship Rose; but either fell on some who spoke only Hollands, or my own French failed me.
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