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"Mine's a weeny bit bigger'n yours this time," decides Sheila, and holds her cooky heroically while Hans takes a just and lawful bite out of his sister's larger share. "The blessed little angels!" I say to myself, melting. "The dear, unselfish little sweeties!" and give each of them another cooky. Back to my typewriter. But the words flatly refuse to come now.
"Na, na; I only say them. I dinna ken the tunes o' them." "And do you say them to Mr Bruce?" "Mr Bruce, sir! Mr Bruce wad say I was daft. I wadna say a sang to him, sir, for for for a' the sweeties i' the shop." "Well, who do you say them to?" "To Alec Forbes and Willie Macwha. They're biggin a boat, sir; and they like to hae me by them, as they big, to say sangs to them.
Dove, and tell him that though I am going away I'll always and always keep my word about the sweeties, and I'll always be his truest of friends, although I do fear him more than anything in the world." Here Primrose came in, and poor little Daisy roused herself, and tried to talk cheerfully. "Primrose," she said, "do you mind my writing a letter which nobody is to see?" Primrose laughed.
Turning at once to the woman, he asked her in a business-like way whether she had anything to do, whether she were a Catholic or a Protestant, whether she could read, and so forth; and then, after a few kind words and some sweeties to the child, he despatched the mother with some tracts about Biddy and the Priest, and the Orangeman's Bible.
Weel, the first Sabbath day, we gaed to the auld Scotch kirk, and we were starvin' for the bread o' life. "Naethin' had we had but the bit sweeties o' the English kirk near by, wi' their confections an' ance we gaed to the Catholic, but it was a holiday. Weel, as I was sayin', we gaed to the Ettrick kirk an' the minister came into the pulpit wi' his goon an' bands fair graun it was.
An' coaxin'! ''Aven't yer brought me no sweeties, Gran'ma? 'No, my dear, says I. 'But if you was to look, Gran'ma in both your pockets, Gran'ma iv you was to let me look? It's a sharp un Isabella, she don't 'old wi' sweet-stuff, she says, sich a pack o' nonsense. She'd stuff herself sick when she wor 'is age. Why shouldn't ee be happy, same as her?
The subtlety of Lord Lovat equalled his fierceness; it is not often that such qualities are combined in such fearful perfection. He could stoop to the smallest attentions to gain an influence or promote an alliance: a tradition is even believed of his going to the dancing-school with two young ladies, and buying them sweeties, in order to conciliate the favour of their father, Lord Alva.
He did not say anything, but they understood it was not to be touched. "Thae's Freckles' flow'rs," said a tiny Scotsman, "but," he added cheerfully, "it's oor sweeties!" Freckles' face slowly flushed as he took Duncan's cake and started toward the swamp.
Ef you make me the promise true and faithful, why you shall have the sweeties, and I'll stick up for you, and be your friend through thick and thin. You'll have Dove for your friend, Miss Daisy, and I can tell you he ain't a friend to be lightly put aside. But if you ever tell and however secret you do it, I have got little birds who will whisper it back to me why, then Dove will be your enemy.
"I leant over the wall, and shouted, 'But there are no candles. "'By and by, said Father Christmas, nodding as before. 'When it's dark they'll all be lighted up. That'll be a fine sight! "'Toys, too, there'll be, won't there? said Patty. "Father Christmas nodded his head. 'And sweeties, he added, expressively. "I could feel Patty trembling, and my own heart beat fast.
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