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Then he heard the half-articulate murmuring of one whose organs have been all but overcome by the beneficent paralysis of sleep, but whose feeble will would compel them to utterance. He was nearly asleep again. Was it a fact, or a fancy of Robert's eager heart? Did the man really say, 'Play that again, father. It's bonnie, that! I aye likit the Flooers o' the Forest.
What for sud ye be in sic a hurry? Ye saw me no three days gane! 'Ay, I saw ye, it's true; but I didna get a word o' ye! 'Ye was free to say what ye likit. There was nane by but my mither! Ay wud I, she returned. 'Syne she wad ken, 'ithoot my haein to tell her sic a guse as ye was! Had he not seen the sunny smile that accompanied her words he might well have taken offence.
Lat me up the stair wi' ye, an' I'll tell ye mair. Weel, pairtly 'at I was ta'en by surprise like, an' pairtly 'at I wasna sae auld as I am noo, an' pairtly that I was keerious to hear ill 'at I likit her what neist the wuman wad say, I did as I ouchtna, an' turned an' gaed up the stair, an' loot her follow me.
Noo, I was sayin' to the wife this verra day that yon man ye brocht frae Montreal last simmer was like eneuch a graun preacher I'm no disputin' that, mind ye. But I was sayin' to the wife as hoo I likit yirsel' fully mair nor him." I smiled with pleasure, for the process was an interesting one. Bouquets look strange in these rough Scottish hands but their fragrance is the sweeter for all that.
Him give him medicine like; then wake up and go on likit that. I believe him bad along a cobra. Aileen had jumped off her horse and gone in to the old man the moment we came up and she heard his voice. All that long night we could hear him talking to himself, groaning, cursing, shouting, arguing.
But maybe it was the lauchin' o' the twa lads, for they thocht it unco fun. He didna live lang efter that. But it wasna that 'at killed him, ye ken. 'But hoo cam he to play the pipes? 'He likit the pipes. And yer grandfather, he tuik to the fiddle. 'But what for did they ca' him the blin' piper o' Portcloddie?
Say what the auld yerl cud, they wad not hear o' sic a thing, an' the leddy was 'maist mair set agane 't nor the prence. She wad be merried accordin' to Scots law, she said, an' wad hae nae ither ceremony, say 'at he likit!
'Ay, ay, I used to think; 'gibe awa, gibe awa; but I hae a freend in my breist that'll end it some day. I likit to keep it to mysell. When it bit me it seemed to whisper I had a freend that nane o' them kenned o' a freend that would deliver me! The mair he badgered me, the closer I hugged it; and when my he'rt was br'akin I enjoyed the pain o't."
"The maister o' the Strathdalgie Schule wes a Protestant, ye ken, but he wouldna' hae ony person read till him but my faither. He had to gae till the schulemaister's bedside when he wes dyin'; for the puir mon wouldna' hae the menister, as he likit a' the words clear." Farquharson's quasi-official position was on one occasion the cause of rather an unpleasant experience.
Ye wad hae jist thoucht the strings had been drawn frae his ain inside, he kent them sae weel, and han'led them sae fine. Eh! to hear him play the Flooers o' the Forest wad hae garred ye greit. 'Cud my father play? asked Robert. 'Ay, weel eneuch for him. He could do onything he likit to try, better nor middlin'. I never saw sic a man.
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