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"Aye," said one, "Jock McDonald has a sair time wi' that wife o' his. They do say they're aye quarrelin'." "It serve' him richt," said another feelingly. "The puir feckless creature marrit after coortin' only eight year. Man, indeed, he had nae chance to ken the wumman in sic a short time. When I was coortin' I was coortin' twenty year."
I would not be havin' my daughter marrit without a munister if I can help it. An' you know his Lordship has promised more than wance to send us wan. He will not be long o' coming now." "Yes, a minister has been promised again an' again," returned Dan, somewhat bitterly, "an' I suppose he will go on promising again and over again, but I have not much faith in these promises.
"And so," ventured the good wife, amiably, "you iss likely de sister from Hugo Ennis, ma'am?" Madge's fork clattered down upon her enamel-ware plate. "No," she said. "I of course I'm not his sister." "Excoose me. He don't nefer tell nobody as he vas marrit, Hugo didn't. Ve vas alvays tinking he vos a bachelor mans, yoost like most of dem young mans as come to dese countries."
He would ca' them up to the rail at catechism time an' reprove them before a' the congregation." "So you said your catechism in public!" I asked. "There wes aye catechism, atween the Mass an' the preachin'. Aebody had to be prepared to be callit up till they wes marrit, at least! Even aifter that, a body couldna' be sure o' bein' left alane!
An' phwin ar-re ye goin' to be marrit? For, av she's proud av ye, ye'll marry her but av she takes ut as a mather av coorse let some wan ilse git stung." Bill regarded the old man sharply, but in his bearing was no hint of jesting nor raillery, and the little eyes were serious. "Yes, there was a girl," said Bill slowly; "but she she does not know." "So ye've had a scrap wid her, too!
"Laws-a-me, Lawya Ed! Is you-all gwine get marrit?" Viney was a fat, jolly young woman, whom Mrs. Leslie had lured from the little negro settlement in the township of Oro, a few miles from Algonquin. She felt the responsibility of her position fully, and showed a marked interest in the affairs of every one of the congregation. But of all living things she loved Lawyer Ed most.
A young woman had died; a young woman who had been privileged to marry a relative, of a degree of relationship obscure, but still honoured, of Mikey Twomey's; "and she afther having a young son, and the boy that marrit her as proud! and a very good baby, and what misfortune came to her no one'd know, only the Lord God Almighty, but she died on them.
'Ye'll ken my sister? replied Ringan, gazing fixedly at the fire, 'Effie that was marrit on puir Jock Ord a fine laddie he was verra knowledgeable wi' sheep, wha perished in a snowstorm, mindin' his hirsel. 'She was left gey ill aff, an' noo wi' a bairn to provide for, hard pit till 't. Twa hundred punds wull provide for his upbringin', an' aiblins turn him into a meenister at the finish.
"You must stay here until you haf got a wife already," said the thoughtful Eli. "It is bat for you and Bim to be not marrit so much." The young man favored both the commercial and the sentimental suggestions of Eli. He had long felt the lure of that promising little city on the lake shore. "I wish you'd take this complaint and serve it on Davis," he said. "I don't want to see him if I can help it.
'I was juist laughin', responded Meg, 'at oor venture, for here we are newly marrit an' I dinna even ken your name richtly; ye are a Robson, I ken, an' "Wudspurs" is your toname, but whatten's your hame name? 'My father and mother aye called me Si, responded Robson. 'Ye can call me that, an' ye like.
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