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Nellie would enquire, a smile breaking over her face also. "Oh, it's Mansie Waugh, mither. Oh, but it's a gran' bit.
While the servants admitted the troopers, whose oaths and threats already indicated resentment at the delay they had been put to, Cuddie took the opportunity to whisper to his mother, "Now, ye daft auld carline, mak yoursell deaf ye hae made us a' deaf ere now and let me speak for ye. I wad like ill to get my neck raxed for an auld wife's clashes, though ye be our mither."
So he went on, repeating the lines over and over again, always with the same sad termination. "A man's mither a man's wife a man's dog! They three are a' little M'Adam iver had to back him! D'ye mind the auld mither, Wullie? And her, 'Niver be down-hearted, Adam; ye've aye got yer mither, And ae day I had not. But ye've me is that no enough for ony man? And God kens it was while it lasted!"
Marget's heart burned within her at the sight, and perhaps she could hardly make allowance for Lachlan's blood and theology. "This is what ye hev dune, and ye let a woman see yir wark. Ye are an auld man, and in sore travail, but a' tell ye before God ye hae the greater shame. Juist twenty years o' age this spring, and her mither dead.
McGillivray wesna' angered; he juist laughed oot an' says he: 'Weel, lassie, ye couldna' ha' said worse to a dog! But I got mair words frae my mither aifter, an' a strappin' as weel, an' to bed wi'oot supper. It learned me to be mair respectful-like to the priest!" This anecdote recalled another. "I mind weel hoo I got my first bonnet through Mr. McGillivray.
'Why should he do any such thing, when he is getting on so well? 'I am sure I dinna ken, replied Teen quietly, though she knew ay, as well as Gladys what it all meant. 'His faither's deid; he de'ed efter a week's illness, jist at the Fair time, an' he's gaun to tak' his mither wi' him. She's bidin' at Colquhoun Street the noo.
No longer haunted with the idea of her wandering all night about the comfortless streets, "like a ghost awake in Memphis," Donal said, they went home. But it was long before they got to sleep, and in the morning their first words were about the woman. "Gien only we hed my mither here!" said Donal. "Mightn't you try Mr. Sclater?" suggested Gibbie. Donal answered with a great roar of laughter.
"There's one thing that looks well," remarked Tim a moment later; "if Starcus is wid the ither spalpeens, they haven't found your fayther and mither, for they're not in this part of the counthry." "That gives me relief," said Warren, with a glowing face; "the folks must be many miles away, and these people are off their track altogether. Father will waste no time, but push on.
But he's vexed me, and set himself agin me, and stiffened my back, and ye ken hoo I was aye quick to tak' offence. But I'll mak' it up to him mak' it up to him, and mair. I'll humble masel' afore him, and that'll be bitter enough. And I'll be father and mither baith to him. But there's bin none to help me; and it's bin sair wi'oot ye. And . but, eh, lassie, I'm wearyin' for ye!"
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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