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Ralph, did you say? I have not seen him. Why?" "He went to Wilkesbarre the day, ma'am, an' he s'ould 'a' comit hame sooner, an' I thocht mayhap ye might 'a' rin across the lad, d'ye see. Pardon me for a-stoppin' o' ye." The lady still stood, holding her child by the hand. "Did he go alone?" she asked. "No, he went doon wi' Muster Sharpman." "And has Mr. Sharpman returned?"
'Hoots, Maister Arthur, let that flea stick by the wa'. We maun do at Rome as Rome does, as ye'll soon find' and disregarding Arthur's exclamation 'and the bit bairn, I thocht ye said he was no Scot, when I was daundering awa' at the French yestreen.
'A've thocht that masel, replied the agonized elder, 'mair than aince. Weelum MacLure was 'ettling aifter the same thing the nicht he slippit awa, an' gin ony man cud hae stude on his ain feet yonder, it was Weelum. And for minister and elder and doctor and me 'there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Ye mind what an awful day it was; the thunder roared as if the heavens were tumbling on the world, and the lichtnin sent the trees daudin on the roads, and folk hid below their beds and prayed they thocht it was the Judgment! But Gourlay rammed his black stepper in the shafts, and drave like the devil o' hell to Skeighan Drone, where there was a young doctor.
"A thocht it was hiss." "And I think it isn't," said the consul, opening the door. Yet when the man had passed out he was by no means certain that the flower was not Kilcraithie's. He was even conscious that if the young Laird had approached him with a reasonable explanation or appeal he would have yielded it up.
"He wes that carefu' o' himsel an' lazy that if it hedna been for the siller, a've often thocht, Milton, he wud never hae dune a handstroke o' wark in the Glen. "What scunnered me wes the wy the bairns were ta'en in wi' him.
The horror o' the thocht leaves him braithless; an' back he tairns an' like a hawk deeps sweeftly but gracefully into the aerodrome saved!" "Bravo, Tam!" They gave him his due reward with great handclapping and Tam bowed left and right, his forage cap in his hand. "Folks," he said, "ma next pairformance will be duly annoonced." Tam came from the Clyde.
"It was the verra nicht o' the Latin prose I cam up to speak aboot the college, and ye thocht Geordie hed been playing truant." Whinnie laughed uproariously, but Domsie heeded not. "It was awfu' work the next twa years, but the Doctor stood in weel wi' the Greek.
Says she, 'I wonder to hear ye, Gavin, but 'am no goin' to agree to naething o' that sort. "'Think it ower, says Gavin. "'Na, my mind's made up, said she. "'Ye would sune get anither man, he says, earnestly. "'Hoo do I ken that? she speirs, rale sensibly, I thocht, for men's no sae easy to get.
"I'm a predestined idiot!" said Alec, with an impious allusion to the Shorter Catechism, as he scratched his helpless head. "I never thocht o' that." It was clearly impossible. "Ye'll catch't," said one of the urchins to Annie, with his nose flattened against the window. The roses of Annie's face turned pale, but she answered stoutly, "Weel! I care as little as the lave o' ye, I'm thinkin'."
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