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Updated: May 23, 2025
He hasna gotten sleep for twa nichts, an' he's fair pitten by himsel' wi' thae ill-set Conformists weary fa' them! that he's been in the gall o' bitterness wi'." Ralph went down to his father's study. Knocking softly, he entered. His father sat in his desk chair, closed in on every side.
There's a wuman doon the stair 'at he comes to see whiles; an' twa or three nichts ago, I heard them lauchin' thegither. Sae I hearkened. They war baith some fou, I'm thinkin'. I cudna tell ye a' 'at they said. That's a punishment noo, gin ye like to see and hear the warst o' yer ain ill doin's. He tellt the limmer a heap o' his lord's secrets.
"Weel, Jamie, the crittur, took it oot o' his pouch an' kind o' hesitated. Syne he lays't on the back o' the fire, an' they sat thegither glowerin' at it. "'Noo, mother, he says, 'you're satisfied, are ye no'? "Ay," Leeby ended her story, "she said she was satisfied. But she saw 'at he laid it on the fire fell fond-like." "Juist another sax nichts, Jamie," Jess would say, sadly.
Blatherwick went on. "I cam hame but twa nichts ago. He's lodged wi' a dacent widow in Arthur Street, in a flat up a lang stane stair that gangs roun and roun till ye come there, and syne gangs past the door and up again. She taks in han' to luik efter his claes, and sees to the washin o' them, and does her best to hand him tidy; but Jeamie was aye that partic'lar aboot his appearance!
So I have spent more money than when I was most amused, in being bored. Mr. J- drove me to the Capetown races, at Green Point, on Friday. As races, they were nichts, but a queer-looking little Cape farmer's horse, ridden by a Hottentot, beat the English crack racer, ridden by a first-rate English jockey, in an unaccountable way, twice over.
As a citizen of the United States he was despised. The Herr vociferated: "What is your country, tell me, what is your country? It is nichts, nichts. It is not a country. It is a ragout, a potpourri, a mess. We do not recognize such a country. It has no beginnings, no tradition, no unity of blood, no ideals " He choked and the Frau flared forth while attempting to crack a nut between her teeth.
"And a warm drink tae," put in Marget, "and that's the window I pit the licht in to guide him hame in the dark winter nichts, and mony a time when the sleet played swish on the glass I wes near wishin' " Domsie waved his hand. "But that's dune wi' noo, and he was worth a' the toil and trouble. First in the Humanity and first in the Greek, sweepit the field, Lord preserve us.
That man o' mine wud ramsh an' hamsh an' fling awa' mair than I cud save although I was a millionaire. Nae farrer gane than lest nicht I heard some ongaens up the stair. What's he up till noo? thinks I to mysel'. Ye ken our garret? It's a anod bit roomie, an' we sleep up there i' the simmer nichts, for the doonstair room gets that het an' seekrif, I canna fa' ower ava sometimes.
"But," said Vivie, "our notice doesn't expire till the end of this week...!" "Das macht nichts. The rooms are wanted and I won't have you on the premises. Off you go, or these soldiers shall take you both round to the Kommandantur." "But our luggage? Surely you will let me go up to our room and pack it and take it away? We..." "Your luggage has been packed and is in the corridor.
I ha' been trying to retire it will no be so lang, noo, before I do, and settle doon for good in my wee hoose amang the heather at Dunoon on the Clyde. But there is no excitement about an engagement now; I could fill five times as many as I do, if there were but some way of being in twa or three places at once, and of adding a few hours to the days and nichts.
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