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'He's in my class at the schuil, said Robert, evasively. 'Him? What class, noo? Robert hesitated one moment, but, compelled to give some answer, said, with confidence, 'The Bible-class. 'I thocht as muckle! What gars ye play at hide and seek wi' me? Do ye think I dinna ken weel eneuch there's no a lad or a lass at the schuil but 's i' the Bible-class? What wants he here?
"It was the Sabbath after the sojers was in Thrums; the day you changed your text so hurriedly. Some thocht you wasna weel, but Lang Tammas " "Thomas Whamond is too officious," Gavin said with dignity. "I forbid you, Nanny, to repeat his story." "But what made you change your text?" asked Babbie. "You see he winna tell," Nanny said, wistfully. "Ay, I dinna deny but what I would like richt to ken.
"You wud hae thocht that every meenut was an hour," said Jamie Soutar, who had been at the threshing, "an' a' 'll never forget the puir lad lyin' as white as deith on the floor o' the loft, wi' his head on a sheaf, and Burnbrae haudin' the bandage ticht an' prayin' a' the while, and the mither greetin' in the corner.
Bide-a-Wee Cottage, Pettybaw, East Neuk o' Fife. To my trusty fieres, Mony's the time I hae ettled to send ye a screed, but there was aye something that cam' i' the gait. It wisna that I couldna be fashed, for aften hae I thocht o' ye and my hairt has been wi' ye mony's the day.
"What is that, my friend?" inquired Don Antonio. "Sell a shill, to be sure I'll thocht everybody know that," said Donald, a good deal surprised at the other's ignorance. "Shill? shill?" repeated the Spaniard "and pray, my friend, what is a shill?" "Cot pless me! don't you'll know what a shill is?" rejoined Donald, with increased amazement.
"But wad that be a true marriage?" she asked, scarcely able to credit what he told her. "Wad I get marriage lines?" "Oh, yes. It would be legal, and you'd get marriage lines. Now what do you say?" "I dinna like the thocht o' no' tellin' my mither. Will I hae to gang away, an' no' tell her?" "Oh, you must not tell anyone," he replied quickly.
Wad they but put half the cleverness into honest toil that they do into writin' me a letter or speerin' a tale o' was to wring my heart, they could earn a' the siller they micht need for themselves. In ma time I've helped many a yin. And whiles I've been sorry, I've been impressed by an honest tale o' sorrow and distress. I've gi'en its teller what he asked, or what I thocht he needed.
"Ay, just sae soon. I askit Him to let me bide while ye came hame. I ay thocht I wad fain see ye ance mair my Miss Flora's lad's lassie. He's gi'en me a' that ever I askit Him but ane thing, an' that was the vara desire o' my heart." "You mean," said Flora, gently, "you wanted Ronald to come home?" "Ay, I wanted him to come hame frae the far country!" said old Mirren with a sigh.
'My minnie aye needit me to sort the fish and gang her errands, and wad scarce hae sent me to scule, gin I wad hae gane where they girned at me for Partan Jeannie's wean, and gied me mair o' the tawse than of the hornbook. Gin the Lord, as ye ca' Him, had ever seemed to me what ye say He is to you, Maister Arthur, I micht hae thocht twice o'er the matter. But there's nae ganging back the noo.
"Hoo much am I tae be paid for this, I'll no mak' a fool o' masel', singing into that great tin tube, unless ye mak' the reason worth my while." He spoke up then it had been nae mair than an experiment we'd planned, ye'll ken. And I'll tell ye straight that what he tauld me surprised me I'd had nae idea that there was sae muckle siller to be made frae such foolishness, as I thocht it a' was then.
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