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The Chief paused for breath, and Willard Holmes, whose experience with large corporations was expected to make him peculiarly valuable to the capitalists who sent him out, turned away with what dignity he could command. "Howly Mither!" came a hoarse whisper from Pat to Abe; "I made sure the poor bhoy wud shrivel up.
By his side Red Wull was standing alert, hackles up, yellow fangs bared, eyes lurid; and, at his feet, the wee brown mouse lay still and lifeless. "Oot o' ma hoose! Back to Kenmuir! Back to yer " The unpardonable word, unmistakable, hovered for a second on his lips like some foul bubble, and never burst. "No mither this time!" panted David, racing round the table. "Wullie!"
"Hm!" said the factor, in a tone that for almost the first time in her life made the woman regret that she had spoken, and therewith he rose and left the cottage. "Eh, mither!" cried Lizzy, in her turn appearing from the ben end, with her child in her arms, "ye hae wroucht ruin i' the earth! He'll hae Peter an' Annie an' a' oot o' hoose an' ha', come midsummer."
Smillie's a fine man, an' I like him," he said with simple enthusiasm. "He is that, Rob. I've aye liked Bob for the way he has had to fecht. Lod, I dinna ken hoo he has managed to come through it a'. He's been a gran' frien' to the miners. What kin' o' a man is Hardie?" "He's yin o' the finest men I ever met," he answered in quick enthusiasm. "You would hae enjoyed hearin' him, mither.
Oh, mither, I've been the wanderer masel', an' I'm weary." My heart melted in me at this, for the eternal fatherly was sobbing through his voice. The familiar tones seemed to call Elsie back from her delirium, for she suddenly looked upon us as if we had not been there before. "Oh, faither, Robin's comin' hame the nicht. Is the lamp kindled in the window?
I was ower prood tae ca' him back, but his mither followed him to the moor, cryin' after him an' she cam' back alane." Donald stopped suddenly, for the mother's struggling voice was heard: "Come hame, Robin, for it's cauld an' dark, an' ye've been ower lang awa; but there's a place at the ingle for ye yet, my bairn. I've aye keepit it for ye, an' I keepit the fire burnin' ever sin' ye left us.
Wal, upon my word! and Hannah drew herself back, flinging every slow word in his face like a blow. 'Yo feature your mither, yo do, boath on you, pretty close. I allus said it ud coom out i' yo too. Prayer-meetin! Yo yoong hypocrite! Gang your ways! Yo may sleep i' th' stable; it's good enough liggin for yo this neet.
Tell me whaur he is, like a guid lassie, Phemy." "I'm no sure. I may say I dinna ken." "Ye say ye ken whan ither fowk disna: noo naebody kens." "Hoo ken ye that?" "'Cause he's run awa." "Wha frae? His mither?" "Na, na; frae Miss Horn." "I ken naething aboot her; but gien naebody kens, I ken whaur he is weel eneuch." "Whaur than? Ye'll be duin' him a guid turn to tell me."
"You must go now," said the nurse, coming up, "the doctor says you must not stay any longer." "Good-bye," said the Scotchman, with a smile, "it's a' richt; you'll tell my mither, won't you?" "Ay, I will," said Tom. "And and Tom," said the Scotchman almost eagerly, "although I shall be dead, I shall be near you, and mebbe Ay, but we shall meet in a better world, Tom. It's a' richt."
He's yin Sir Erchibald Roylance. English, but his mither was a Dalziel. I'm no weel acquaint wi' his forbears, but I'm weel eneuch acquaint wi' Sir Erchie, and 'better a guid coo than a coo o' a guid kind, as my mither used to say. He used to be an awfu' wild callont, a freend o' puir Maister Quentin, and up to ony deevilry.
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