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The good woman abridged the period of hesitation by inquiring, "Was ye wanting the gudeman or me, lass?" "I wanted to speak with Mr. Butler, if he's at leisure," replied Jeanie. "Gang in by then, my woman," answered the goodwife; and opening the door of a room, she announced the additional visitor with, "Mr. Butler, here's a lass wants to speak t'ye."
"Oh no, no!" and Innocent looked distressed "Perhaps it's too little I hope you are not wronging yourself?" The waggoner laughed, kindly enough. "Don't ye mind ME!" he said "I'M all right! If I 'adn't two kids at 'ome I'd charge ye nothin' but I'm goin' to get 'em a toy they wants, an' I'll take the 'arf-crown for the luck of it. Good-day t'ye! Hope you'll find an easy place!"
He resolved to decoy him into the lock-up, and accosted him in a friendly, free-and-easy way. "Good day t'ye," he said. " most magnificent volume ever published, jewelled in fourteen holes, working on a ruby roller, and in a glass case," said the book-canvasser.
Ye 'll open 't, and tak care ye dinna fa' ower the tub, for the entry's dark, and then ye'll turn to the right, and then ye'll hand straught forward, and then ye'll turn to the right again, and ye 'll tak heed o' the cellarstairs, and then ye 'll be at the door o' the little kitchen, it's a' the kitchen that's at Milnwood now, and I'll come down t'ye, and whate'er ye wad say to Mistress Wilson ye may very safely tell it to me."
"Well, everybody else'll be there, and shame 'em if they ain't," said Mrs. Starling. "How's your mother, Joe?" "Wall, I guess she's ripe," said Joe with a slow intonation, loving and reverent; "but she's goin' to hold on to this state o' things yet awhile. Good day t'ye!"
But good luck t'ye and a fair wind, say I!" And thrusting the dagger into his girdle he nodded mighty affable. "But look'ee now, Marty, here's me wishing ye well and you wi' a barker in your fist, 'tis no fashion to greet a shipmate, I'm thinking." "Enough words!" says I, stepping up to him. "Do you go alive, or stay here dead which?" "Split me!" says he, never stirring.
A new plaid sall ye hae, and o' the best your ain clan-colours, man, an ye will tell me where it can be sent t'ye frae Glasco."
A new plaid sall ye hae, and o' the best your ain clan-colours, man, an ye will tell me where it can be sent t'ye frae Glasco."
"It's hard it's powerful hard!" agreed Bainton, sympathetically "Such a wife as she'd a' made t'ye, Passon, if she'd been as she was when she come in smilin' an' trippin' across this lawn by your side, an' ye broke off a bit o' your best lilac for her! There's the very bush all leafless twigs now, but strong an' 'elthy an' ready to bloom again! Ah! I remember that day well!
Dinmont, we have put off locking up for an hour to oblige ye; ye must go to your quarters." "Quarters, man? I intend to sleep here the night. There's a spare bed in the Captain's room." "It's impossible!" answered the keeper. "But I say it is possible, and that I winna stir and there's a dram t'ye." Mac-Guffog drank off the spirits, and resumed his objection.
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