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"But she couldn't keep to it. When papa fell ill, and she was unhappy, she went back. And then of course she made it up with her brother." The triumph in Mrs. Mason's face yielded first to astonishment, then to anger. "The poor weak doited thing," she said at last in a tone of indescribable contempt, "the poor silly fule! But naebody need ha' luked for onything betther from a Helbeck.
"They're no likely to fin' the hoose in a nicht like this, man; an' if they do, they'll fin' naebody but Ramblin' Peter there, for I gied the lassies an' the women strick orders to tak' to the hidy-hole at the first soond o' horses' feet." By this time the men had reached a secluded hollow in the hill, so completely enclosed as to be screened from observation on all sides.
Oh, how I used to pray that God would be gude to me, and give me a living keepsake of my dead husband! I troubled naebody. I never speered if my father would do anything for me; but I got work at the factory, and I lived in prayerful hope.
Robert, my man, be a guid lad, an' serve the Lord wi' a' yer hert, an' sowl, an' stren'th, an' min'; for gin ye gang wrang, yer ain father 'll hae to beir naebody kens hoo muckle o' the wyte o' 't, for he's dune naething to bring ye up i' the way ye suld gang, an' haud ye oot o' the ill gait. For the sake o' yer puir father, haud ye to the richt road.
Stop at home, as a man ought to do, to preserve and protect his ain family and his ain property. Wherefore would ye risk life or limb withouten cause. There will be enough to fight the French without you unmarried men, or men that have naebody to leave behint them and to mourn for them."
"Are you sure there's naebody looking?" she asked. The doctor glanced at the minister, and Gavin rose. "Let us pray," he said, and the three went down on their knees. It was not the custom of Auld Licht ministers to leave any house without offering up a prayer in it, and to us it always seemed that when Gavin prayed, he was at the knees of God.
"Why, what's the matter now? are there not beds and rooms enough in the house? was it not an ancient hospitium, in which, I am warranted to say, beds were nightly made down for a score of pilgrims?" "Is there not the Green Room, Grizel?" "Troth is there, and it is in decent order too, though naebody has sleepit there since Dr. Heavysterne, and" "And what?" "And what!
Then, with a sudden consciousness of the case of Archie, "No that it maitters for men sae muckle," she made haste to add, "but there's naebody can deny that it's unwomanly.
"I did not say flay'd," replied Andrew, "but fley'd, that is, I got a fleg, and was ready to jump out o' my skin, though naebody offered to whirl it aff my body as a man wad bark a tree." "I beg a truce to your terrors in the present case, Andrew, and I wish to know whether you can direct me the nearest way to a town in your country of Scotland, called Glasgow?"
"A' didna keep buiks, as ye ken, for a' aye hed a guid memory, so naebody 'ill be harried for money aifter ma deith, and ye 'ill hae nae accoonts tae collect. "But the fouk are honest in Drumtochty, and they 'ill be offerin' ye siller, an' a'll gie ye ma mind aboot it.
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