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I don't know any one of the name of Sib;" but I checked myself, for I thought she perhaps mistook me I wore prodigious whiskers at that time for a gallant colonel, whose name begins with that euphonious syllable. "No, no no colonel," she said; "me wants you me no care for colonels." What could she possibly want with me?
You know we had remarked this stone before as being just in the position to roll down, if it was only on the other side. I do not know how I managed, but over it went, and fell directly on him; and, oh, I am afraid it has killed him. What shall I do, I shall never be happy again." Gatty. "Not happy again, Sib, I only wish I had done it." Sybil. "But, sister, do you think he is really dead?
Time had made him sib to its spirit, close to its niggard heart. Scarcely a nook or corner of it with which he was not on terms of the most intimate acquaintance. In the adjoining room a deserted woman had died by her own hand; her moans, filtered through the dividing wall, had summoned P. Sybarite too late.
The bridegroom might pass, in his manly prime and his scarlet coat, although a dowf gallant; but who would have thought that Nelly Carnegie in the white brocade which was her grandmother's the day that made her sib to Rothes Nelly Carnegie who flouted at love and lovers, and sported a free, light, brave heart, would have made so dowie a bride?
Aunt Amelia is good to the girls who come to stay with her as my friends. And I'd help you, Sib; I'd make the best of your dresses. We'd go to the theatre, and the pantomime, and all kinds of jolly things. We'd have a rattling fine time." "Do you really mean it?" said Sibyl. "Yes that is, if you will give me your solemn word that you will refer no more to that silly matter about Betty Vivian.
'She is the laird's daughter? said I, in as careless a tone of inquiry as I could assume. 'His daughter, man? Na, na, only his niece and sib aneugh to him, I think. 'Aye, indeed, I replied; 'I thought she had borne his name? 'She bears her ain name, and that's Lilias. 'And has she no other name? asked I.
Certainly gossip is in its tone familiar and personal; it is the familiar and personal touch which makes Plutarch's Lives interesting. At the root of the word "gossip," say etymologists, there lies an honest Saxon meaning, "God's sib" "of one kindred under God." It would be only a misanthrope who would assert that he has no interest in his fellows.
She shook her head. "I never heard a note of it," said she. "Whistle it all through. And now once again," she added, after I had done so. Isnae this the tune that ye whustled?" "You see," she says, "I can do the poetry too, only it won't rhyme." And then again: "I am Miss Grant, sib to the Advocate: You, I believe, are Dauvit Balfour." I told her how much astonished I was by her genius.
'That's a by-name, said the knight sternly; 'I must have the full name of any man who rides with me. 'George Douglas, then, if nothing short of that will content you! 'Are ye sib to the Earl? 'Ay, sir, and have rid in his company. 'Whose word am I to take for that? 'Mine, sir, a word that none has ever doubted, said the youth boldly. 'By that your son kens me.
Then he joyfully rushed away and strewed it far and wide over the whole earth, so that it became no longer living and golden but faded and turned a dull color as the winds blew it about and the rains beat upon it, and crushed it in between the rocks and stones. When Sib awoke and was about to push the hair from her face, she felt that something was wrong.
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