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Ye wad hae us tak her in for a whilie, till she luiks up a bit, puir thing? Hoo auld may she be?" "She can hardly be mair nor twenty, or aboot that sic like as your ain bonnie lassie would hae been by this time, gien she had ripent here i'stead o' gaein awa to the gran' finishin schuil o' the just made perfec. Weel min' I her bonny face! And, 'deed, this ane's no' that unlike yer ain Isy!
"I never suspicioned the first thing till Motheh Tombs and I got into ow gate comin' home fum the Graveses! All of a sudden there we ware under a perfec' demonstration o' pine an' ceda' boughs an' wreaths an' arborvitæ faschoons!
For a long time he did not think to look upon himself as anything but a man much injured by circumstances. Among his friends he could count numbers who had lived long lives without having this peculiar class of misfortune come to them. In fact it was so unusual a misfortune that men of the world had not found it necessary to pass from mind to mind a perfec t formula for dealing with it.
And one day the doctor bring her father confessor, there where she's in bed, and break that gently that my father he's come home, and then that he's bring with him the perfec' proof that she's as white as she look'. Well, negs day she's out of bed; secon' she's dress and laughing! and eating! And every day my father he's paying his intention', and Mme.
"I am keeping everything dark until I am so like him in every particular that you will not know the difference. I have often envied him the possession of such a niece. When the likeness is perfec " "Well?" said Miss Drewitt, with impatient scorn. "You will have two uncles instead of one," rejoined Mr. Tredgold, impressively.
Say, Missus" and he turned to his wife, who had just come in, the youngest child in her arms. She weighed twice as much as Muffles one of those shapeless women with a kindly, Alderney face, and hair never in place, who lets everything go from collar to waist-line. "Say, Missus, didn't de Sheriff say dat was a perfec' likeness?" And he handed it to her.
"She's a perfec' beauty!" repeated Candace in satisfaction, "an' I done made her all myself fer de little Miss," and she dodged behind the curtain again, this time bringing out a large rag doll with surprising black bead eyes, a generous crop of wool on its head, and a red worsted mouth.
"Hoots man!" answered Thomas; "dinna ye see 'at gin the man was cawpable o' makin' sic a mistak's that, i' the mids o' his perfec confidence in his ain knowledge an' jeedgment, he cud hardly hae been intendit by Providence for an interpreter o' dark sayings of old?" Andrew burst into a laugh. "Wha cud hae thocht, Thomas, 'at ye cud hae pickit sic gumption oot o' stanes!"
They was married on Tuesday last, as we know well, and to-day's Times to prove it, and yet if you'll believe me, they was talkin' about 'ow they 'ad travelled alone abroad 'Never, John! 'And alone in a Swiss 'otel! 'My goodness! 'And a steamer too. 'Well, there! I'll never trust any one again. 'Oh, a perfec' pair of scorchers. But I'll let 'im see as I knows it.
She started back. "Eh!" she cried; "guid God! sic a deevil's I maun be, to cairry the like o' that i' my inside! Lord! I'm a perfec' byke o' deevils! My name it maun be Legion. What is to become o' my puir sowl!"
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