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After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire. "Tha' said as tha'd have me walkin' about here same as other folk an' tha' said tha'd have me diggin'. I thowt tha' was just leein' to please me. This is only th' first day an' I've walked an' here I am diggin'." Ben Weatherstaff's mouth fell open again when he heard him, but he ended by chuckling.
"I always told my Joey as he'd have to throw ye up, and I'm fair pleased to see he's taken me at my word." "Oh, he has, has he?" said Liza, rising near to boiling point at the imputation of being the abandoned sweetheart of the blacksmith. "I always said as ye could bang them all at leein. I would not have your Joey if his lips were droppin' honey and his pockets droppin' gold.
Ye wad hae thocht him a cornel at the sma'est, an' me a wheen heerin' guts. But it wad hae garred ye lauch, my lord, to see hoo the body ran whan my blin' gran'father he canna bide onybody interferin' wi' me made at him wi' his braid swoord!" "Ye leein' rascal!" cried Bykes; " me feared at an auld spidder, 'at hasna breath eneuch to fill the bag o' 's pipes!" "Caw canny, Johnny Bykes.
'I'm off to Arizona, to win the boy free, says he the leein' cur!... I will say this thing, too, that my heart warmed to the lad at the very time of it that he had spunk to speak his mind. I have seen too much of the supple stock. Sirs, it is but an ill thing to be over-rich, in which estate mankind is seen at the worst.
He broke his mother's heart, and covered his father's grey hairs wi' shame; and he sank from one state o' degradation to another, till now, I believe, he is ane o' those prowlers and pests o' society who are to be found in every large town, and who live naebody can tell how, but every one can tell that it cannot be honestly. Such, sir, has been the fate o' Leein Peter.
The caretaker was trying to console the self-accusing man. "Could I no'? Ye dinna ken me as weel as ye micht." The disgusted landlord tumbled into broad Scotch. "Gie me to do it ance mair, an' I'd chairge Auld Jock wi' thievin' ma siller, wi' a wink o' the ee at the police to mak' them ken I was leein'; an' syne they'd hae hustled 'im aff, willy-nilly, to a snug bed."
I showed him the folly and the enormity o' his offence, and also pointed out its consequences but I might as weel hae spoken to the stane in the wa'. He was Leein Peter still.
Noo, doctor, I daresay ye may have observed, that a confirmed drunkard, rather than want drink, will steal to procure it and, as sure as that is the case, tak my word for it, that, in nine cases out o' ten, he who begins by being a habitual liar, will end in being a thief. Such was the case wi' Leein Peter.
Ca' ye leein and hypocrisy a bit faut? I alloo the sin itsel mayna be jist damnable, but to what bouk mayna it come wi ither and waur sins upo the back o' 't? Wi leein, and haudin aff o' himsel, a man may grow a cratur no fit to be taen up wi the taings! Eh me, but my pride i' the laddie! It 'ill be sma' pride for me gien this fearsome thing turn oot to be true!"
Ye hae been naething but leein a' for fun, of coorse, I ken that to mak a fule o' me for bein fleyt! Despair, for a moment, seemed to overwhelm Kirsty. Was it for this she had so wounded her own soul! How was she to make the poor child understand? She lifted up her heart in silence. At last she said, 'Ye winna see mair o' him this year or twa onygait, I'm thinkin!
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