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I cros't m'self seven times an' says I 'God rest th' sowls ov all here, an' God prosper th' sowl ov Hughie Thornton. I wint t' slape an' slept th' slape ov th' just till twelve be th' clock. I was shuk out ov slape be a screech that waked th' dead! "Och, be th' powers, Jamie, me hair stud like th' brisels on O'Hara's hog.
The intended victim saw and understood the arrangement, and she spoke earnestly and piteously to her murderers. "It's not wanting will be violence!" said Biddy, in a quiet tone, but with a saddened countenance. "I know it's my turn, and I will save yer sowls from a part of the burden of this great sin.
Blake and poor Tim wor kilt outright on the spot, an' nayther of them spoke a word nor made a move, but jist dhropped stone dead, God rest their sowls. An' the wife, that's Misthress Blake, a good, kind-hearted lady she was, was shot in the hip, an' crippled, but she wasn't kilt, d'ye see. Blake was a hard man, they said, an' must have the rint.
"What learned him that?" said Gibbie to himself; Janet had taught him to search the teaching of the apostles for what the Master had taught them. He thought and thought, and at last remembered "This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you." I canna lay doon my life to save their sowls; I maun save for them what I can it may be but a hen or a calf.
"An' what wad ye ca' the best use, father?" "Whatever maks o' a man a neebour. A true life efter God's notion is the sairest bash to Sawtan. To gie yer siller to ither fowk to spread is to jink the wark laid oot for ye. I' the meantime hadna ye better beery yer deid again? They maun lie i' the dark, like human sowls, till they're broucht to du the deeds o' licht."
Shame on ye! sit ye down, ill childer! there's good books eneugh if ye'll read 'em: sit ye down, and think o' yer sowls!" 'Saying this, he compelled us so to square our positions that we might receive from the far-off fire a dull ray to show us the text of the lumber he thrust upon us. I could not bear the employment.
Father Kelly sniffed th' air whin he come in; an' says he, 'Terence, what's th' matther with ye'er catch basin? 'I dinnaw, growled Terence. 'Well, says Father Kelly, 'ye put on ye'er hat this minyit, an' go out f'r a plumber, he says. 'I'm not needed here, he says. 'Ye'er sowls ar-re all r-right, he says; 'but ye'er systems ar-re out iv ordher, he says.
Pray that theaw may'st depart hence i' th' Lord, wi' whom are the sowls of the faithful, an Meary's, ey trust, among the number. Pray that thy eend may be like hers." "Ey conna pray, Bess," replied the miller, striking his breast. "The Lord has turned his feace fro' me." "Becose thy heart is hardened, Ruchot," she replied. "Theaw 'rt nourishin' nowt boh black an wicked thowts.
I dinna like to hear ye speyk sae scornfulike o' the gude man that has the care o' oor sowls!" "It wad be mair to the purpose ye had the care o' his!" "Sae I hae: hasna ilkabody the care o' ilk ither's?" "Ay; but he preshumes upo' 't and ye dinna; there's the differ!" "It's sair wastit upo' him 'at caana see the thoucht intil't!"
What ails you? "'Faix, and he's settled too, I'm thinking. "'Take that, with what you got before, and it'll ase you, maybe. "'Lay on him, your sowls to pirdition lay on him, hot and heavy give it to him! He sthruck me and me down wid my broken arm! "'Foul, ye thieves of the world!
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