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"Na, I'm no carin'." "Sandy and me's gaein' to see Him some day." "I'll gang wi' ye. But I maun tak' my chuckie!" She looked down where she had set the little bird on the ground; it had hobbled away and she could not see it! "Eh," she cried, starting up, "ye made me forget my chuckie wi' yer questions! It's mither 'ill peck it!"
Mr father urged me sair, But my mither didna speak, Though she looked into my face, Till my heart was like to break. Auld Robin Gray. "It is rather singular," said Lady Westborough to her daughter as they sat alone one afternoon in the music-room at Westborough Park, "it is rather singular that Lord Ulswater should not have come yet. He said he should certainly be here before three o'clock."
"Awa, awa, mither," replied. Cuddie; "dinna ye see the folks waiting for me? Never fear me I ken how to turn this far better than ye do for ye're bleezing awa about marriage, and the job is how we are to win by hanging." So saying, he extricated himself out of his mother's embraces, and requested the soldiers who took him in charge to conduct him to the place of examination without delay.
Ye ken how the rhyme says I hae maist forgotten how to sing, or else the tune's left my auld head "He turn'd him right and round again, Said, Scorn na at my mither; Light loves I may get mony a ane, But minnie neer anither.
He'd a big saft heart, had David, beneath the varnish. Mony's the time when mither was alive, I've seen him throw himsel' into her arms, sobbin', and cry, 'Eh, if I had but mither! 'Twas different when mither was alive; he was kinder to me then.
"That's the puir laird again," said Joseph, the instant he was beyond hearing. "Something's wrang wi' him. I wonder what's come ower him!" "I haena seen him for a while noo," returned the other. "They tell me 'at his mither made him ower to the deil afore he cam to the light; and sae, aye as his birthday comes roun', Sawtan gets the pooer ower him.
But ye're no going back to your mither." My heart leapt up with joy; there is no denying it and then I burst into tears. "And she won't see me? Has she really cast me off?" "Why, that'll be verra much as ye prosper, I'm thinking. Ye're an unaccreedited hero, the noo, as Thomas Carlyle has it.
As they rose from the table, a small girl, with hair wildly suggestive of insurrection and conflagration, entered, and said, in a loud screetch "Maister MacPhail, my mither wants a pot o' bleckin', an' ye're to be sure an' gie her't gweed, she says."
Timmerman, as she was pleased to call the German philosopher, and supposed he must be of the same descent with the Highland clan of M'Intyre, which signifies Son of the Carpenter. "And a fery honourable name too Shanet's own mither was a M'Intyre."
She wore a widow's cap and a black gown, and I saw in her deep-lined face a resemblance to her son. "Madam," I said, the title coming naturally, "I owe Captain Paul a debt I can never repay." "An' him but a laddie!" she cried. "I'm thankful, John, I'm thankful for his mither that ye saved him." "I have no mother, Madam Paul," said I, "and my father was killed in the French war.
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