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I mak sma' doubt the captain'll tak ye hame wi' him, syne the mither an' sisters still be i' the cot i' Mr. Craik's croft." "Tell me, MacMuir," said I, "is not the captain in some trouble?" For I knew that something, whatever it was, hung heavy on John Paul's mind as we drew nearer Scotland. At times his brow would cloud and he would fall silent in the midst of a jest.
"Oh, are you?" said Mysie, and stopped, disappointingly, and remained silent. "Ay. I'm twelve now, you ken, an' I can get into the pit," feeling a bit nettled that she was silent in the face of such a happening. "Oh!" and again Mysie stopped. "My faither has got a place a week syne that'll fit John an' him an' me. The three o' us are a' goin' to work thegither.
"Syne we saw the Grotkau rollin' oot on the top o' flood, deep an' double deep, wi' her new-painted funnel an' her new-painted boats an' a'. She looked her name, an', moreover, she coughed like it. Calder tauld me at Radley's what ailed his engines, but my own ear would ha' told me twa mile awa', by the beat o' them.
As well as I could, I repeated that Psalm I had said over the graves by the Rapidan. He looked at me with eyes as clear and honest as a child's. "'In death's dark vale I will fear no ill," he repeated after me. "That minds me of lang syne. I never feared muckle on earth, and I'll not begin now." I saw that the end was very near. The pain had gone, and there was a queer innocence in his lean face.
"'That's yours, Jamie, she said; 'it was ill-dune o' me to tak it, but I couldna help it. "Jamie put oot his hand, an' syne he drew't back. 'It's no a thing o' nae consequence, mother, he said. "'Wha is she, Jamie? my mother said. "He turned awa his heid so she telt me. 'It's a lassie in London, he said, 'I dinna ken her muckle.
I'm no sayin' 'at a man's no ane o' the elec' that hasna had that favour vouchsaufed to him; but this I do say, that he canna ken his election wi'oot that. Try ye to get a sicht o' the face o' God, lassie: syne ye'll ken and be at peace. Even Moses himsel' cudna be saitisfeed wi'oot that." "What is't like, Thomas?" said Annie, with an eagerness which awe made very still. "No words can tell that.
If she does quarrel with me, she will only be fighting the Scarborough game, in which I am bound to oppose her. I am afraid the fact is that she prefers the Scarborough game, not because of my sins, but from auld lang syne. "But Augustus has got hold of my Uncle Prosper, and has done me a terrible injury. My uncle is a weak man, and has been predisposed against me from other circumstances.
"I met with the young man Robert about five years ago, and have often since asked myself what special end providence could have in view in making such a man." "I was acquainted with old William Burns," said my companion, "when he was gardener at Denholm, an' got intimate wi' his son Robert when he lived wi' us at Irvine, a twalmonth syne.
Perhaps as "Auld Lang Syne" was sung with locked hands at the end of the dinner, if "Auld Lang Syne" is ever sung at Phi Beta Kappa dinners, there was a general feeling that the day had been a red-letter day for the university, and a white day in the recollection of all who had heard one of the most charming discourses that were ever delivered in the country, and had beheld a display of oratorical art which in this time, at least, cannot be surpassed.
'Here, Sir, but in woful plight; borne in an hour syne by four carles who said you had been set upon by the Master of Albany, and sair harried, and they say the Tutor doth nought but wail for his bairns. How won ye out of his hands, my Lord? 'Thanks to this good knight, said Malcolm; and the gate was opened, and the new-comers dismounted to pass under the archway, which taught humility.
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