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He eyed me in a sharp but not unfriendly manner, and seemed pleased to learn of my destination. "Ward. Kenneth Ward. I'm from Pennsylvania." "You haven't got the bugs. Any one can see that," he said, and as I looked puzzled he went on with a smile, and a sounding rap on his chest: "Most young fellers as come out here have consumption. They call it bugs. I reckon you're seekin' your fortune."
They point to this man or to that, and how he seized a chance or how, perhaps, he failed to do so. "If ever an opportunity like that comes tae me," ye'll hear them say, "just watch me tak' it! Opportunity'll ne'er ha' to knock twice upon my door." All well and good. But opportunity is no always oot seekin doors to knock upon.
The shining eyes were sending a truthful message into the heart of the young mother. "That ain't nothin' to do with Ben Letts," muttered Myra. "Yep, it air," insisted Tess. "It says what ye seeks ye find. Ain't ye seekin' Ben Letts?" "I knows where he air already," sullenly replied Myra. "But ye can seek his lovin's, can't ye?... I's a seekin' Daddy and somethin' else." "What?"
But then he bethowt him o' t' squirrel, an' t' squirrel were ower mich for him. So he said to Melsh Dick that he'd gan wi' him an' fotch t' squirrel, but he munnot stop lang, or fowks would consate that he'd lossen his way i' t' wood an' would coom seekin' him.
'I could keep ye on board for the whole voyage, he went on, 'but ye wouldna be permitted to land. If ye're seekin' enjoyment, it would be a poor job sittin' on this deck and admirin' the works o' God and no allowed to step on the pier-head. Ye should have applied to the military gentlemen in Glesca. But ye've plenty o' time to make up your mind afore we get to Oban.
"I dinna ken," was the boy's eager reply; "but she's been seekin ane this aught days, an mair; an' Nan Black says, if somebody doesna help her, she maun tak her twa bairns, an' gang an' beg. Noo, faither, could we no do something?
"Ye plaguesome brat!" cried Auntie; "there has Betty been seekin' ye, and I hae been seekin' ye, far an' near, i' the verra rottan-holes; an' here ye are, on yer ain father's buryin' day, that comes but ance takin' up wi' a coo." But the causes of Annie's preference of the society of Brownie to that of Auntie might have been tolerably clear to an onlooker, without word spoken.
"It's a pow'ful comf'table feelin'," he said, "to set up in a nice safe place like this, an' feel that the woods is full o' ragin' heathen, seekin' to devour you, and wonderin' whar you've gone to. Thar's a heap in knowin' how to pick your home.
Even whan ye boucht a man an' paid for him, accordin' to the Jewish law, ye cudna mak a slave o' 'im for a'thegither, ohn him seekin' 't himsel'. Eh! gin she could only get my father hame! sighed Robert, after a pause. 'What should she want him home for? asked Dr. Anderson, still making conversation. 'I didna mean hame to Rothieden.
It was twenty minutes before he discovered Speug, and then Speug was standing on the edge of the water at the top of the island, where the current runs swift and strong towards the other side. "Was it me ye were seekin'?" said Speug, rosy red all over, but not with modesty. "I thought I heard somebody crying. We're glad to see ye on the island. Have ye come to bathe?"
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