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"Ma word" and Kildrummie pursued his way "it 'll be a match, the dochter o' a puir Hielant laird, wi' naethin' but his half pay and a few pounds frae a fairm or twa. She 's a clever ane; French songs, dancin', shootin', ridin', actin', there's nae deevilry that's beyond her. They say upbye that she's been a bonnie handfu' tae her father General though he be an' a' peety her man."
Haud ye the licht upo' yer ain face, lass, an' there 's feow 'll hae the hert to luik again." "Haith, mem, there's twa sic like o' 's!" returned Jean bitterly, and bounced from the room. "That's true tu," said her mistress adding after the door was shut, "It's a peety we cudna haud on thegither." "I'm gaein' noo, Jean," she called into the kitchen as she crossed the threshold at eight o'clock.
All the in-door servants, it is true, were rigorously examined, yet it somehow happened that Hycy could not divest himself of a suspicion that Nanny Peety was in some way privy to the disappearance of the money.
"That's why they pit on their blacks this mornin' afore it wes licht, and wrastled through the sna drifts at risk o' life. Drumtochty fouk canna say muckle, it's an awfu' peety, and they 'ill dae their best tae show naethin', but a' can read it a' in their een.
Jennie went softly across the room, and laid her hand upon the sketches. "Calling us to order, are you, Jennie?" Constance laughed. "Come, then, show us your pictures, and tell us about them." Eagerly the girl seized the sketch in her fingers. "Peety," she said, holding it tenderly up before them. "F'owers, twees, water."
But as soon as the twa laddies were oot o' the road, Fat Jamie o' Avondale cam' into the Yerldom o' Douglas and a' the Douglasdale estates, forbye the Borders and the land in the Hielands. Wae's me for Ninian Halliburton, merchant and indweller in Dumfries, he'll never see hilt or hair o' his guid siller gin that wee lassie be lost. Man, Sholto, is't no an awfu' peety?"
Maybe you paint too ha! ha! ha!" Hanna now put in her head, and asked "what is the fun?" but immediately added, "Kathleen, here's a message for you." "For me!" said Kathleen; "what is it?" "Here's Peety Dhu's daughter, an' she says she has something to say to you." "An' so Rosha Burke," said Mrs. Cavanagh, "has taken her to live wid them; I hope it'll turn out well for the poor thing."
'Rotten at least she was fine the last time I seen her ugly. 'The decay seems to ha'e been rapid. But, seriously, it's a peety ye canna love yer aunt better Love her! Oh, help! The 'p' was sounded just in time, and Willie glanced at Macgregor to see whether he had noticed the stumble. Macgregor, however, had forgotten Willie unless, perhaps to wish him a hundred miles away.
Peety sat accordingly, and commenced to lay down for his daughter's guidance and conduct such instructions as he deemed suitable to the situation she was about to enter and the new duties that necessarily devolved upon her.
But that simple glance, how significant was its import, and how clearly did it convey the whole history of as pure a heart as ever beat within a female bosom! CHAPTEE VI. Nanny Peety looks mysterious Hycy proves himself a good Judge of Horse-Flesh. The day was all light, and life, and animation.
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