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Updated: May 1, 2025
Beeny Liston, looking at everybody but Christie, addressed the natives who were congregating thus: "Did ever ye hear o' a decent lass taking the herrin' oot o' the men's mooths? is yon a woman's pairt, I'm asking ye?"
"Ye'll get what ye want at such and such place," he would answer, "and I doobtna it'll be as guid as can be made at the siller; but for my ain pairt, ye maun excuse me!" "'Deed, sir, he'll be baith glad and prood to mak ye as guid a pair o' beets as he can compass," answered Maggie. "Jist step in here, sir, and lat him ken what ye want.
"Well, in one sense, I don't mind saying yes." "Well," said the Irishman, still full of mirth, and swinging his legs with fresh vigor, "he'd aht to 'a' sint ye to the ligislatur." "I'm in hopes he will," said the little rector; "but" checking the Irishman's renewed laughter "tell me why should other men's injustice in here stop me from preaching God's mercy?" "Because it's pairt your injustice!
"But ye ken aboot algebra" she pronounced the word with the accent on the second syllable "divna ye, maister Cosmo?" "Na, no the haif, nor the hun'ert pairt. I only ken eneuch to haud me gaein' on to mair. A body maun hae learnt a heap o' onything afore the licht breaks oot o' 't. Ye maun win throuw the wa' first.
"Her father wad fain hae seen her merriet afore he dee'd, but the pride he had gien her was like to be the en' o' a', for she coontit it naething less than a disgrace to pairt wi' maiden leeberty.
At nicht he would walk a' ower the hoose, and he had lamps hung in every room and corner, so that no pairt should be dark. Many's the time frae my room in the garret I've heard his futsteps comin' and gangin', comin' and gangin' doon one passage and up anither frae midnight till cockcraw.
"Just pairsecuting an auld man of seventy and a wee bit of a child. And if we canna mak' him tak' a sensible view of things, ye'll do a guid action by taking the puir things awa' wi' ye to some ither pairt of the South Seas, where the creatures can at least live." Then he told his story.
"I want ye to promise me ae thing afore we pairt," said Geordie. "It's for yir ain guid I'm askin' it." "What is it?" I asked curiously. "I want ye to sign the pledge," he responded, with a tearful voice, "for it maun hae a sair hand o' ye or ye wadna be prowlin' aboot a taivern at sic a time o' nicht." "I will talk to you some other time about that."
Promise me, Francie, and I'll sune tak the maist pairt o' the trouble o' her aff o' yer han's. 'Ye're aye richt, Kirsty! answered Francis. 'As ye wull. The next morning, Kirsty told her parents that she was going to marry Francie. 'Ye du richt, my bairn, said her father. 'He's come in sicht o' 's high callin, and it's no possible for ye langer to refuse him.
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