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These latter appertaining qualifications were interesting enough, but his undeviating observance of the mill rule of the Morrisons of St. Ronan's served more effectively to point the matter of his character.
Ronan's mill office any morning about nine-thirty. Up to date Mac Tavish had not thrown any paper-weights through the wicket, though he had been collecting ammunition in that line against the day when nothing else could express his emotions.
Several of Bishop Cautin's slaves, who, out of fear of hell fire, did not wish to run the Vagrery after the burning of the episcopal villa, swelled the foot soldiers of Count Neroweg. Ronan's troop numbered at most a score of men. The council of war decided to engage in a general battle. It is half an hour since the approach of Count Neroweg and his leudes was announced by the pickets.
As to owing anything in return, the idea had indeed been presented to her when with Clementina and Malcolm she talked over "St Ronan's Well," but it had never entered her mind. The drawing room and the hall were lighted. Mrs Courthope was at the door as if she expected her, and Florimel was careful to take everything as a matter of course.
Ronan's Well, where the younger Scrogie abjures the name of Mowbray. 'Pshaw! Louis, can't you understand? Frost is a glorious name to me, recording my grandmother's noble exertions on our behalf, but I can imagine it to be hateful to him, recalling the neglect that made her slaving necessary. 'For which amiable reason you insist on obtruding it.
The Darkest Night Brings Out the Stars, Miss Mamie Odenheimer. Thrue for you, mavourneen! And the sintiments, wasn't they illigant? and the lan-gwidge was as foine as Pat Ronan's speeches or Father whist! will ye look at the flowers that shlip of a gyirl's gitting! Count 'em, will ye?"
Ronan's." "Aren't you and Mayor Morrison friendly?" "Oh yes! Certainly, sir! But " Captain Sweetsir appeared to be having much difficulty in completing his sentences, now that Stewart Morrison had become the topic of conversation. "But what?" "He didn't say anything, you tell me?" "His cordiality spoke louder than words. And, of course, I was glad to meet him half-way.
"There's a mob in front of the State House!" "It'll stay there," stated Wyman, remaining as serene as the comestible he had mentioned. "The St. Ronan's Rifles can't be backed down by any mob. We have been ordered to shoot, and that kind of a gang in this city might as well learn its lesson to-night as any other night. It's getting time to do a lot of law-and-order shooting in this country."
As the snow blattered in his face, he muttered, "How it raves and drifts! On-ding o' snaw, ay, that's the word, on-ding " He was now at his own door, "Castle Street, No. 39." He opened the door and went straight to his den; that wondrous workshop, where in one year, 1823, when he was fifty-two, he wrote 'Peveril of the Peak, 'Quentin Durward, and 'St. Ronan's Well, besides much else.
Sir Walter Scott declared that he was "a most perfect creature of heaven," and when one sees him represented in so beautiful a specimen of his noble race as St. Ronan's Rhyme, for example, or Talisman, or Ayrshire, one is tempted to echo this high praise. Seven-and-twenty years ago Captain Graham drew up a list of the most notable dogs of the last century. Among these were Sir St.
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