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Bairn! what should she do wi' a bairn? maidens hae nane, I trow. Teresa Teresa my lady calls us! Bring a candle; the grand staircase is as mirk as a Yule midnight We are coming, my lady!" With these words she sunk back on the settle, and from thence sidelong to the floor. *
"I canna but think, sir," returned Grizzie, "as I lie i' the mirk, o' the heap o' things 'at gang to nae kirk, oot an' aboot as sharp as a gled, whan the young laird is no in his bed oot wi' 's algibbry an' astronomy, an' a' that kin' o' thing!'Deed, sir, it wadna be canny gien they cam to ken o' 't."
Then approaching the Master, he craved pardon for having permitted the rest of his people to go out to see the hunt, observing, that "They wad never think of his lordship coming back till mirk night, and that he dreaded they might play the truant." "Silence, Balderstone!" said Ravenswood, sternly; "your folly is unseasonable.
Tommy had suffered at his hands for saying that Shovel's mark was thirty yards farther on. With head bent to the level of the dykes, though it was almost a mirk night beneath the trees, and one arm outstretched before him straight as an elvint, Tommy faced this fearful passage, sometimes stopping to touch cold iron, but on the whole hanging back little, for Elspeth was in peril.
Once more she lurked at the window fearing one moment, hoping the next, that her message had not reached him in time, that he would not come till another night, though she was aware that it must be now or never.... And at last, down below, a mere spark of light moved in the mirk. Mrs. Lancaster was no weakling. The spark roused as though it had touched and scorched her.
'The westlin wind blaws loud an' shill; The night's baith mirk and rainy, O: But I'll get my plaid, an' out I'll steal, An' owre the hills to Nannie, O. According to Gilbert, the poet himself was constantly the victim of some fair enslaver, although, being jealous of those richer than himself, he was not aspiring in his loves.
Ever through the mirk could be seen the pirate's grinning teeth and his evil eyes lighted by the burning and smoking fuses on either side of them, ever above the groans of the wounded and the hoarse shouts of ruffians and jack tars, rose Teach's murderous war cry. At last, Maynard, defending himself from a terrific blow, had his sword blade broken off at the hilt. Now was the pirate's chance.
Then I went on to a station called Clumber or Clumboye, or some such name, and thence after some difficulty I got a car for my destination. It was a wretched car in which hens had been roosting, and it was drawn by a steaming horse that had sores under its mended harness. An immense wet wind was blowing as we came over the big hill that lies to the south of Mirk.
It was as if a fog should suddenly quench some fair-beaming star, as if at the threshold of some golden portal prepared for Oleron a pit should suddenly gape, as if a bat-like shadow should turn the growing dawn to mirk and darkness again.... Therefore, Oleron strove to stifle even the nascent thought of her.
It's there! a wee darker, but the same jist whaur I could ha' laid the pint o' my finger upo't i' the mirk! Noo lat the worms eat it," she concluded, as she folded down the linen of shroud and sheet "an' no mortal ken o' 't but mysel' an' him 'at bude till hae seen 't, gien he was a hair better nor Glenkindie's man i' the auld ballant!"
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