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However he saw the driver of the first carriage sud- denly pull up boforg a little blackened coffee shop and inn. The dragman spurred forward and began wild expostulation. The second carriage pulled close behind the other. The crowd, murmuring like a Roman mob in Nero's time, closed around them. COLEMAN pushed his horse coolly through to the dragoman;s side. " What is it ? " he demanded.
That's ane o' the considerations 'at hings some sair upo' me: see what we hae dune!" "What for dinna ye gang ower to Maister Graham, an' speir what he thinks?" "What for sud I gang till him? What's he but a fine moaral man? I never h'ard 'at he had ony discernment o' the min' o' the speerit." "That's what Dilse's Bess frae Clamrock wad say aboot yersel', Peter."
But it seems she remained in this house until after the birth of her babe; then her faithless husband returned, and took her to some town in New Hampshire, where, for a time, he supported her and his little son decently well. But again he left her as before sud- denly and unexpectedly, and she saw him no more.
Ye dinna seem to think it possible she sud tak his wull raither nor yours! that the love o' Christ should constrain her ayont the love offert her by Jeames Bletherwick! We hae conversed aboot ye, sir, but niver differt!" "But allowing us you and me to be of different opinions on some points, must that be a reason why she and I should not love one another?"
"But yo' knaw you wouldn' bae happy wi' mae. I sud bae crool t' yo'. Nat because I wanted t' bae crool, but because I couldn' halp mysel. Theer'd bae soomthin' alse I sud bae thinkin' on and wantin' all t' while." "I knaw. I knaw. I wouldn' lat yo', Jim. I wouldn' lat yo'." "I knaw there's t' baaby an' all. It's hard on yo', Essy. But I dawn' knaw I ned bae crool to t' baaby, too."
"Say on, Grizzie," returned the laird, when again she paused. "It sud surprise nane to get a message frae the Lord by the mou' o' ane o' his handmaidens." "Weel, it's this, laird.
I heard a malignant, crackly laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering. "I wer sure he'd sarve ye out! He's a grand lad! He's getten t' raight sperrit in him! He knaws ay, he knaws, as weel as I do, who sud be t' maister yonder Ech, ech, ech! He made ye skift properly! Ech, ech, ech!" "Where must we go?"
"Besides, dinna ye see," she added cunningly, "that that would be to affront the lass as weel? He wadna be the first to fa' intil the snare o' a designin wuman, and wad it be for his ain father to expose him to public contemp? Your pairt sud be to cover up his sin gien it were a multitude, and no ae solitary bit faut!" "Daur ye speyk o' a thing like that as a bit faut?
"Na; I maun gang wi' ye, man," answered the laird, rising. "Grizzie's a heap taen up wi' yer gran'mither. She's been weirin' awa' this fortnicht back. She's no in pain, the Lord be praised! an' she'll never ken the straits her hoose is com till! Cosmo, I hae been a terrible cooard dreidin' day an' nicht yer hame-comin', no submittin' 'at ye sud see sic a broken man to the father o' ye!
Water began to lose its effect upon the scorched and shriveling planks; the resin oozed out from the knots in the wood, the seams burst open, and the tar, melted by the heat, followed the rollings of the vessel, and formed fantastic patterns about the deck. Then to complete our perplexity, the wind shifted sud- denly round to the northwest, whence it blew a perfect hur- ricane.
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