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He spoke this last half to himself, a grieved, puzzled expression on his face, as though lately he had dreamed some ill dream. "Forbye Wuilie, I've no friend on God's earth. And, mind ye, a bad man aften mak's a good friend but ye've never given me the chance.
"An' it takes twa weeks mair for a boat to cross the ocean, an' that gives fourteen days mair before that letter to Hester was written, an' three days fra' Liverpool here, pits it back to seventeen days, an' fifteen days mak's thirty-two days, an' here' it's nearin' the last o' June " "Jean! Whan Hester's frien' was writin' that letter to Hester, Richard was just sailin' fra France!
"It's the mune, ye ken, Tibbie." "Weel, what's the mune? I dinna fin' 't. It mak's no impress upo' me. Ye canna see sae weel's ye say, lass!" exclaimed Tibbie, at length, in a triumph of incredulity and self assertion. "Weel, gin ye winna believe me o' yer ain free will, Tibbie, I maun jist gar ye," said Annie. And she rose, and running into the cottage, fetched from it a small pocket Bible.
"It mak's it worse them no' bein' gotten yet. I think I'd gae wrang in the mind if that happened to our yin," and then, completely overcome, she sat down on the doorstep and sobbed in real sorrow. "I suppose it's an awfu' big fall. He had been workin' on the top o' some auld workin's, an' I suppose they wadna ken, an' it fell in. It maun hae been an awfu' trial for wee Rob, poor wee man.
"Ah, noo I mind me," this to himself. "You' the lass as is thinkin' o' marryin' him?" "We're promised," the girl answered simply. "Weel," the other remarked, "as I said afore, ye're a good plucked un." Then, in a tone in which, despite the cynicism, a certain indefinable sadness was blended, "Gin he mak's you as good husband as he mad' son to me, ye'll ha' made a maist remairkable match, my dear."
She set the tea-pot before Essy. "There's a coop of tae. An' there's bread an' drippin'. Yo'll drink it oop." But Essy, desolated, shook her head. "Wall," said Mrs. Gale. "I doan' want ter look at yo. 'T mak's mae seek." As if utterly revolted by the sight of her daughter, she turned from her and left the kitchen by the staircase door.
To say naething o' his no bein' ashamed to confess bein' sic a heepocreet i' the sicht o' God as to luik aboot him upon his knees, lyin' in wait for a man to do him hurt whan he pretendit to be worshippin' wi' him afore the Lord his Maker, to say naething o' that which I wadna hae expeckit o' him, he gangs aboot for auchteen months contrivin' to bring that man to disgrace because he daurna mak' sic a strong profession as he mak's himsel'. But the warst o' 't a' is, that he beguiles a young thochtless bairn, wha has been the cause o' muckle discomfort in oor hoose, to jine him i' the plot.
An' hoo used to come to this house every Sunday neet, an' read th' Scripturs; an' th' place wur olez crammed th' stairs an o'. Up-groon fellows used to come an' larn fro her, just same as childer they did for sure great rough colliers, an' o' mak's. Hoo used to warn 'em again drinkin', an' get 'em to promise that they wouldn't taste for sich a time.
Nae guid ever comes o' lasses gaun there. They lose a' sense o' modesty an' decency, after a while, an' are no' like women at a' when they grow aulder. Besides, it mak's them awfu' coorse." "I wad hardly say that aboot them a'," he ventured cautiously. "Mysie's no' coorse, an' she worked on the pithead."
It mak's me shaky-trimilly yet to think aboot it. Sandy's gaen aboot wi' a' the hair cut aff the back o' his heid, an' fower or five strips o' stickin' plester battered across his scawp. He got an awfu' mishap, puir man. I thocht his heid was a' to smash, but, fortunately, it turned oot fully harder than the biscuit tin it cam' into contact wi'.
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