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I returned to my cottage without feeling the ground that I trode on; but Teresa and the child were gane a' that was alive was gane naething left but the lifeless corpse." "And did you never learn my infant's fate?" "I could but guess. I have tauld ye your mother's purpose, and I ken Teresa was a fiend. She was never mair seen in Scotland, and I have heard that she returned to her ain land.
Annapla seemed to find the dialect of Fife most pleasing and melodious. She listened to his monologue with approving smiles, and sitting on a stool, cowered within the arch, warming her hands at the apology for a flame. "Wha the deevil could hae tauld her it was the lad himsel' was here that nicht wi' his desperate chiels frae the barracks?
I have heard their communings so often tauld ower that I almost think I was there mysell, though I couldna be born at the time. "I wuss ye joy, sir, of the head seat and the white loaf and the brid lairdship.
But the captain wadna hark to my rede when I tauld him naught but dool wad cooin o' taking Mungo." It seemed that John Paul, contrary to MacMuir's advice, had shipped as carpenter on the voyage out near seven months since a man by the name of Mungo Maxwell. The captain's motive had nothing in it but kindness, and a laudable desire to do a good turn to a playmate of his boyhood.
She and I were to watch the unhappy leddy, and let no other person approach. God knows what Teresa's part was to hae been she tauld it not to me but Heaven took the conclusion in its ain hand. The poor leddy! she took the pangs of travail before her time, bore a male child, and died in the arms of me of her mortal enemy!
"I tauld ye I wasna that dooms stupid, if it cam to lifting things. And forby, I hae gotten twa gude horse.
"Umph!" replied Jarvie, with a precautionary sort of cough "Ay, he has a kind o' Hieland honesty he's honest after a sort, as they say. My father the deacon used aye to laugh when he tauld me how that by-word came up. My honest father used to laugh weel at that sport and sae the by-word came up."
Mr Stewart was on his feet instantly. "I maun awa'. Tak care o' Phemy," he said hurriedly. "Na, na, sir," said Malcolm, laying his hand on his arm; "there's nae sic hurry. But ye hae garred mair fowk nor me luik, an' that's the pity o' 't." "I tauld ye, sir, ye sudna cry oot," said Phemy. "I couldna help it," said Stewart apologetically.
I heard ane o' his gillies bid that auld rudas jaud of a gudewife gie ye that. They thought I didna understand their gibberish; but, though I canna speak it muckle, I can gie a gude guess at what I hear them say I never thought to hae tauld ye that, but in a fright a' things come out that suld be keepit in.
You may read it for yourselves, my dears, in the life of John Paul Jones. "Wae's me!" he said, with a heave of his big chest, "I reca' as yestreen the night Maxwell cam aboord. I tauld the captain 'twas a' the faut o' Maxwell. I ne'er cad bide the blellum. Dour an' din he was, wi' ae girn like th' auld hornie.
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