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The look which accompanied that reply stung the Scotchman's pride to the quick. When he spoke next, he spoke seated in his former place at the table. "No man ever yet said of me that I broke my word," he retorted, angrily; "and not even you shall say it of me now. Mind this! If you hold me to my promise, I hold you to my condition.
I may say that I am a great admirer of your work, and my daughter, too, for that matter." Reanda said something civil as his hand parted from the Scotchman's. Francesca saw an opportunity of bringing Reanda and Gloria together. "As you like Signor Reanda's painting so much," she said to Dalrymple, "will you not bring your daughter this afternoon to see the frescoes he is doing in my house?
"He was once my friend," said Farfrae, "and it's not for me to take business from him. I am sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot hurt the trade of a man who's been so kind to me." In spite of this praiseworthy course the Scotchman's trade increased.
"It's worth yer while, mon, ye ne'er heard sae blithe a voice as Janie's." Half doubting, yet amused at the old Scotchman's manner, he had made an appointment for hearing Janie, and afterward wondered why he had done so, as he felt sure that he was to listen to the vocal efforts of a child whose singing chanced to please an old man whose knowledge of music was probably meagre.
I am a special agent of the General Land Office sent up to investigate the Macdonald coal claims and kindred interests." Slowly the rigor of the big Scotchman's steely eyes relaxed to a smile that was genial and disarming. If this news hit him hard he gave no sign of it. And that it was an unexpected blow there could be no doubt. "Glad you've come, Mr. Elliot. We ask nothing but fair play.
The German followed him a few steps, opened his lips to plead for a longer delay, met the Scotchman's inexorable eye, and drew back again in silence. The door closed and parted them, without a word having passed on either side. The doctor went back to the bed and whispered to the sinking man: "Let me call him back; there is time to stop him yet!" It was useless.
So little gluten is found, that the flour of oats can not be made into loaves of bread; although, mixed and baked as thin cakes, it forms a large part of the Scotchman's food. It requires thorough cooking, and is then slightly laxative and very easily digested.
It would be hard for the latter to find a more agreeable stopping-place in the whole course of their southward journey. Having in mind the Duke of Argyll's assertion that "no bird can ever fly backwards," I have more than once watched these humming-birds at their work on purpose to see whether they would respect the noble Scotchman's dictum.
"Then, if we are really on the National Forests, that is your territory, and we have the legal right to make an arrest?" Wayland laughed outright. If you don't see why, then you do not know the stickling of a Briton's sense of law and a Scotchman's conscience. Matthews took up his station behind the rock that abutted on the trail.
Her husband regarded her with a curious mingling of reverence and defiance, for Donald Finch was an obstinate man, with a man's love of authority, and a Scotchman's sense of his right to rule in his own house.
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