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"Div ye railly think it, Ma'colm?" sighed the factor with a flush. "I div that, sir. Only whan ye grow better, gien ye'll alloo me to say't, sir, ye maunna lat Sawtan temp' ye to think 'at this same repentin' was but a wakeness o' the flesh, an' no an enlichtenment o' the speerit." "I s' tie mysel' up till 't," cried the factor, eagerly.
Taffy nodded. "It would be nice now, wouldn't it " She broke off, clasping her knees and staring at the blaze. "What would be nice?" Lizzie laughed confusedly. "Aw, you make me say't. I can't abear any of the young men up to the Chapel. If me and you " Taffy ceased blowing. The fire died down, and in the darkness he could hear her breathing hard.
And I wonna say't for a' the dominies in creation." "But he'll lick ye, Alec; an' I 'canna bide it," said Annie, the tears beginning to fill her eyes. "Weel, I'll try to please you, Annie," said Alec, seeing that the little thing was in earnest. How her heart bounded with delight! That great boy, so strong and so brave, trying to learn a lesson to please her! But it would not do.
'I've found some crawfish here, he said, 'an' I'm goin' t' try fer a bite on the p'int O' rocks there. 'Goin' t' git some fish, Uncle Eb? I enquired. 'Wouldn't say't I was, er wouldn't say't I wasn't, he answered. 'Jes goin' t' try. Uncle Eb was always careful not to commit himself on a doubtful point.
"Dinna ye tell Grizzie that." "What for no?" "She wad be angert first, an' syne her hert wad be like to brak." "There's nae occasion to say't," conceded Cosmo. "But what's come o' her the nicht?" he went on. "It's some dark, an' I doobt she'll " "The ro'd atween this an' the Muir's no easy to lowse," said Aggie.
Come in and bear a hand, an I'll give you diet and lodging, and a few pence when you earn them. 'Never say't twice, says the prince. 'I want nothing but to be busy. So he took the hammer, and pounded away at the red-hot bar that the smith was turning on the anvil to make into a set of horse-shoes. They hadn't been long at work when a tailor came in, and he sat down and began to talk.
"Say awa', Grizzie," he answered; "I'm hearin' ye. There's nane has a better richt to say her say i' this hoose; what ither hae ye to say't intil!" "I hae no richt," retorted Grizzie, almost angrily, "but what ye alloo me', laird; and I wadna wuss the Lord to gie me ony mair.
"I never heard her say that ye was ever cankert, Thomas." "No, I daursay no. She wadna say't. She wadna say't. She was a kin'-herted auld body." "But she didna like to be ca'd auld," interposed Annie, with a smile half in sad reminiscence of her friend's peculiarities, half in gentle humour, seeking to turn the conversation, and so divert Thomas from further self-accusation.
But say at ye like, I s' uphaud Ma'colm again' the haill poustie o' ye. Gien he was but here! I say't again, honest laad!" But she could not rouse Peter to utterance, and losing what little temper she had, she rated him soundly, and sent him home saying with the prophet Jonah, "Do I not well to be angry?" for that also he placed to Malcolm's account.
As if I dinna see through them! The tawpie's taen the gee at the Factor because he played yon ploy wi' his lads frae the Maltland barracks, and this Frenchy's ower the lugs in love wi' her, I can see as plain as Cowal, though it's a shameless thing to say't. He's gotten gey far ben in a michty short time.
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