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Promise me, Francie, and I'll sune tak the maist pairt o' the trouble o' her aff o' yer han's. 'Ye're aye richt, Kirsty! answered Francis. 'As ye wull. The next morning, Kirsty told her parents that she was going to marry Francie. 'Ye du richt, my bairn, said her father. 'He's come in sicht o' 's high callin, and it's no possible for ye langer to refuse him.
They dinna sing them in Ameriky. An' I lilted yin till him we was lookin' far oot at the Gowden Gate, an' it lookit like the crystal water ma een'll sune see." Archie stopped, though apparently but little exhausted. His eyes seemed flooded with tender memories of that momentous hour on the far distant Pacific Coast. "What psalm did you sing him?" I ventured, presently.
Mother Binning had been working in the garden, but when she saw the figures on the path below she took her distaff and sat on the bench in the sun. When they came by she raised her voice. "Mr. Alexander, how are the laird and the leddy?" "They're very well, Mother." "Ye'll be gaeing sune to Edinburgh? Wha may be this laddie?" "It is Ian Rullock, of Black Hill."
"A bonny bride's sune buskit; eh, Nanny Swinton?" "But ye're no bonny, Miss Nelly; na, na, ye cannot fill the shoon o' yer leddy mother; ye're snod, and ye may shak yer tails at the Assembly, but ye're far ahint Lady Carnegie." "An' I've but to dance my set with young Berwickshire Home, I care not though I bide at home after all."
Efter a while he put oot the gas, an' syne began to tak' aff his claes, an' wide aboot amon' the furniture as uswal. He got intil his bed efter a quarter o' an oor's miscellaneous scramblin', an' was sune snorin' like a dragoon. When I got atower i' the mornin', what is there sittin' on my chair but a great muckle shortie in a braw box, wi' a Christmas caird on the tap o't.
I say there will be a new warld sune And we shall hae nae Cawmils cocking their bonnet sae hie, and hounding their dogs where they daurna come themsells, nor protecting thieves, nor murderers, and oppressors, to harry and spoil better men and mair loyal clans than themsells."
An old woman smiled rather sadly, but very kindly, in their direction, and Macgregor reddened, while Willie spat in defiance of the displayed regulation. As the journey proceeded, their talk dwindled. It was after a long pause that Willie said: 'Ye'll be for hame as sune as we get to Glesca eh? 'Ay. . . . An' you'll be for yer aunt's eh?
" But ye're no i' the pit yet by a lang road; and oot o' that road I s' hae ye, please God, afore anither nicht has darkent!" "I dinna ken what's to come o' me!" again she groaned. "That we'll sune see! Brakfast's to come o' ye first, and syne my wife and me we'll sit in jeedgment upo ye, and redd things up. Min' ye're to say what ye like, and naither ill fowk nor unco guid sail come nigh ye."
"Aweel I wot that is sune done," said Moniplies, retiring slowly; "I did not come without I had been ca'd for and I wad have been away half an hour since with my gude will, only Maister George keepit me to answer his interrogation, forsooth, and that has made a' this stir." And so he made his grumbling exit, with the tone much rather of one who has sustained an injury, than who has done wrong.
"No' that bad," he said, surveying the metamorphosed shepherd, "but I doot yer auld friends the dragoons wad sune see through 't considerin' yer size an' the soond o' yer voice." So saying he proceeded to place the red herrings on a gridiron, as if he were the recognised cook of the establishment. Presently Bruce himself Mrs.
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