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A German named Meyer, who had borne his sufferings with great fortitude, also volunteered, as did a Scotchman named Douglas. "You may propose what you please," said the guide, when he heard them talking, "but I will not wait for you." "Why not?" inquired Frank somewhat angrily. "Because I was not hired for such work.
His father was a Scotchman, but Beaton was born in Syracuse, New York, and it had taken only three years in Paris to obliterate many traces of native and ancestral manner in him.
He cautioned me, with entire gravity, to be punctilious in writing English; never to forget that I was a Scotchman, that English was a foreign tongue, and that if I attempted the colloquial, I should certainly, be shamed: the remark was apposite, I suppose, in the days of David Hume.
The dinner-bell rang unheeded somehow not one of the three could leave him. "How lovely!" he said at last, opening and fixing his eyes on Eva. "I think God sent you to me." "Ay, laddie," said the old Scotchman, taking the wasted hand in his, "but it seems to me you know the One who 'sticketh closer than a brother'? I see the 'peace of God' in your face."
In explanation of this assertion, Harry was told that, should the young Scotchman refuse any favour from the woman, her wounded vanity would change her liking to the most bitter hatred, and she would then contrive to bring down upon him the anger of Golah, an anger that would certainly be fatal to its victim. "Then what must I do to save him?" asked Harry. "Noting," answered the Krooman.
The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the formidable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds. At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
Parsons already and I suppose it will not take very long. The laws there, I believe, are not so binding as in England " and then she stopped short. "The laws where?" Moravia could not refrain from asking; her curiosity had at last won the day. "In Scotland, Morri. He was a Scotchman, not an American at all as every one supposes."
The Scotchman raised his hand as a token that he heard. "You're done for, McTee, you and all the rest. You're bound to starve, and when you're weak, we'll come and carry you forward, and you'll die by inches as the other three are going to die; but if you want to live you and the girl and all of you, give us White Henshaw to treat as he ought to be treated.
Oakly was not, as he said of himself, apt to ask favours, and nothing but Grant's cordiality could have conquered his prejudices, so far as to tempt him to ask a favour from a Scotchman. He was going to have asked for some of the Brobdingnag raspberry-plants.
The book in which he was at the moment seeking recreation was a ponderous work on metaphysics by a prolix Scotchman, treating in many dreary chapters of such amusing topics as the unity of the act of perception with the object perceived!
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