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"I'll wager my mither's silver punch bowl that she's afraid of nothing. You can fire a gun, no doubt, Ma'am?" Oscar. "Yes, to be sure, and a pistol too, and she can load them also." Capt. "Well then, she's as good as another man. There will be Smart and her, and as you must go quietly, they will be quite enough."
'I told yo so afore I woan't cry for 'im. But as long as Louie's here, an I ha to keep her, I'll want that money, an every penny on't. If it bean't paid, she may go too! 'Yo'd not turn her out, Hannah? cried Reuben, instinctively putting out an arm to feel that the door was closed. 'She'd not want for a livin, replied Hannah, with a bitter sneer; 'she's her mither's child.
I kenna hoo to shape my petition, for I'm a' i' the dark; but deliver him some gait, Lord, I pray thee, for his mither's sake! ye ken what she is! I dinna coont for onything, but ye ken her! Lord, deliver the hert o' her frae the awfu'est o' a' her fears. Lord, a hypocreet! a Judas-man!" More of what he said, I cannot tell; somehow this much has reached my ears.
Do you see, sir? concluded Robert significantly. 'No, I don't, answered the doctor. 'They say he's a son o' the auld Markis's, that's it. His mither's a randy wife 'at gangs aboot the country a gipsy they say. There's nae doobt aboot her. An' by a' accoonts the father's likly eneuch. 'And how on earth did you come to have such a questionable companion?
"Ye needna trouble yoursel to say what's no' true," was the answer; "it's just a bit bairnie unco sma' An' that's nae wonder, considering the puir mither's trouble." "And the father is gone abroad?" "Just twa months sin' syne. But eh! doctor, look ye here," suddenly cried Elspie, as with her great, brown, but tender hand she was rubbing down the delicate spine of the now quieted babe.
"I was a cousin of Willie's," continued James, "by the mither's side, an' her persuaded me to go wi' him to Canada. We set sail the first o' May, an' were here in time to chop a sma' fallow for our fall crop.
He was oot mebbe a quarter o' a beat in his time, but the auld words had their power; 'twas like as if I heard my mither's voice again, an' I cudna sing for greetin', but my hairt aye keepit time, an' I resolved then no' to let Kirsty sing the hymes ony mair but I'm misdootin' I've been wrang." Backward rolled the night and onward rolled the day as we kept our vigil by the dying bed.
"Only just thus far, my leddy," continued Mause, firmly, "that prelacy is like the great golden image in the plain of Dura, and that as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were borne out in refusing to bow down and worship, so neither shall Cuddy Headrigg, your leddyship's poor pleughman, at least wi' his auld mither's consent, make murgeons or Jenny-flections, as they ca' them, in the house of the prelates and curates, nor gird him wi' armour to fight in their cause, either at the sound of kettle-drums, organs, bagpipes, or ony other kind of music whatever."
"Only just thus far, my leddy," continued Mause, firmly, "that prelacy is like the great golden image in the plain of Dura, and that as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were borne out in refusing to bow down and worship, so neither shall Cuddy Headrigg, your leddyship's poor pleughman, at least wi' his auld mither's consent, make murgeons or Jenny-flections, as they ca' them, in the house of the prelates and curates, nor gird him wi' armour to fight in their cause, either at the sound of kettle-drums, organs, bagpipes, or ony other kind of music whatever."
"But ye wouldn't bother the old man and his daughter this time of the night, surely," responded the saloonkeeper. "I'd as soon distarb me mither's grave," said Mickie, "as to frighten the swate-faced lady up yon by our presence to-night." "Umph! I guess she won't mind," sneered Pritchen, "especially if the parson's along." The blood rushed into Keith's face, as he listened to these remarks.
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