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"Didn' I hear 'Bias's voice below there, a while since?" "Ay, here I be." It was 'Bias's turn to step out from the shadow of his doorway into the broad moonlight. "And glad enough to hear this news." "Would ye do me a favour? . . . Dressed, are you?" "Ay been sittin' up latish to-night."
Latish at night, though it was still broad day in our sub-arctic latitude, we came down upon the shores of the roaring Pentland Firth, that grave of mariners; on one hand, the cliffs of Dunnet Head ran seaward; in front was the little bare white town of Castleton, its streets full of blowing sand; nothing beyond, but the North Islands, the great deep, and the perennial ice-fields of the Pole.
'For 'eaven's sake, 'e says, 'give 'er the medicine as the doctor left, and I'll go and tell 'im as you've done it. And off 'e goes, though it was gettin' latish and no one to attend to the bar. Well, I fetched the medicine, and I took it to 'er, and I says, ''Ere you are, mother, I says, 'you 'ave a dose o' this. It'll kill the pain. I gave it 'er in a teaspoon like 'e said, and she took it.
Smith, and especially Miss Annette Smith, could perceive in their ejaculations, before they themselves were drawn into the strong current of interest. And this was the matter: Tinman had hired the glass for three days. Latish, on the very first day of the hiring, close upon dark, he had despatched imperative orders to Phippun and Company to take the glass out of his house on the spot. And why?
We did not get this schooner out that season, however. The commodore arriving, and an expedition against Kingston being in the wind, a party of us volunteered from the Scourge, to go on board the Oneida. This was in November, rather a latish month for active service on those waters. The brig went out in company with the Conquest, Hamilton, Governor Tompkins, Port, Julia, and Growler, schooners.
Maddie said he looked so handsome she had half a mind to throw over Joe Moreton after all. Joe came rather latish, and the old gentleman had a cup of tea and went to bed at once, leaving word for Joe that he wanted to start almost before daylight, or as soon as he could see to drive, so as to get half-way on their stage before the sun was hot.
And they were quite big dogs. It was latish in the afternoon before we started. We thought we could lurk better if it was nearly dark. It was rather foggy, and we waited a good while beside the railings, but all the belated travellers were either grown up or else they were Board School children.
Our gentlemen thought it either unwise, unkind, or unsafe, to refuse them so small a boon altogether. Latish in the evening we were entertained with a sight, that is indeed singularly curious and interesting.
I had a strange, unwilling kind of feeling about going there again; but at last, half not knowing what else to do, and half not caring to make an enemy of Kate, if I could help it, I walked up. It was latish. She was standing near the bar, talking to half-a-dozen people at once, as usual; but I saw she noticed me at once.
"No," he said, "I don't want that, my dear;" and he smiled at her very kindly. "Besides, if we're going to have a storm, an umbrella is just the article to bring the lightning down on my head." Norah pulled away the umbrella hastily, as though she would now have fought to the death rather than let him have it. "Don't wait supper, Mav. I may be latish."
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