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An she gaed passt me like a puff o' wind as cauld as ice an I wor mair deed nor alive. An I luked afther her, an she vanisht i' th' varra middle o' t' path. An my leet went oot an I durstn't ha gane on, if it wor iver so so I juist crawled back tet hoose " "The door in the wall!" thought Laura. "He didn't know it was there." She had remained in the background while Mrs.
He fell back heavily on the stone, hiding his face in his hands, and muttering to himself. The children looked at each other oddly. Then David, half afraid, touched him. 'What's t' matter, 'Lias? Are yo bad? The old man did not move. They caught some disjointed words, 'cold ay, t' neet's cold, varra cold! ''Lias! shouted David. 'Lias looked up startled, and shook his head feebly.
Sandy's "six hunderd pund" which he had earned with the sweat of his brow, all handed over to that minx Louie, and wasted by her and a rascally French husband in a few months it was more than he could bear. 'Aye, aye, marryin's varra weel, he said impatiently. 'A grant tha it's a great sin coomin thegither without marryin. But Sandy's six hunderd pund! Noa, I conno abide sich wark.
It was a worn and patched garment of brown alpaca, made out of an ancient gown of Hannah's. 'Wal, I'm naw judge i' these matters, said Reuben, dubiously, drawing out his spectacles. 'It's got naw holes 'at I can see, but it's not varra smart, perhaps. Satan's varra active wi gells on this pint o' dress yo mun tak noatice o' that, Louie but listen heer
'Weel, said Mr McIntosh, deliberately, 'rivers are varra like human bein's in the queer twists they take, and the Deil's Lead seems to hae been ain like that.
Hannah came forward and looked at the children at David white and blinking at the four-year-old Louie, bundled up in an old shawl, which dragged on the ground behind her, and staring wildly round her at the old low-roofed kitchen with the terror of the trapped bird. 'Hannah, they're varra cold, said Reuben 'ha yo got summat hot? 'Theer'll be supper bime-by, Hannah replied with decision.
"I'll come and see Bessie soon," she said gently, as she moved on. "Aye. Yo'll be varra welcome." She stepped forward briskly, gained the high road, and presently saw in front of her a small white house, recently built, and already embowered in a blossoming garden.
But if Henders would clear away the snow from his door he would be "varra obleeged." Henders, however, had to come to terms first. "The chairge is saxpence, Davit," he shouted. Then a haggling ensued. Henders must be neighborly. A plate of broth, now or, say, twopence. But Henders was obdurate. "I'se nae time to argy-bargy wi' ye, Davit.
Sotheby said it was worth a journey from London to hear him translate a Greek chorus; and, at a later day, the brawny Cumberland men called him "a varra bad un to lick." Never were such "constitutionals" known, even at old Oxford.
Carbuncle's, and had been at the castle for the last ten days "eating their varra heeds off," as Andy Gowran had said in sorrow. There had been practising even while John Eustace was there, and before her preceptors had slept three nights at the castle, she had ridden backwards and forwards half-a-dozen times over a stone wall.
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