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"It all comes of that waistrel Mister Burn-the-wind," he said, meaning to indicate the blacksmith by this contemptuous allusion to that gentleman's profession. Constable Jonathan could not forbear a laugh at the name, and at the idea it suggested. "Ay, but if he'd burned the wind this time instead of blowing it," he said, "we might have raised it between us.

"Cannot that lass's father earn aught without keeping yon sulking waistrel about him?" asked the old dalesman one day. It was the first time he had spoken of Wilson since the threatened ducking. Being told of Wilson's violence to Rotha, he only said, "It's an old saying, 'A blate cat makes a proud mouse." Angus was never heard to speak of Wilson again.

"I think they said she'd wedded a waistrel on the Borders." "Did they ever say the man was dead?" "No, I can't mind that they ever did. I can't mind it. He had beaten her and soured her into the witch that she is now, and then she had run away frae him with her little one, Joe that now is. That was what they said, as I mind it." "Two and two are easily put together, Sim.

Ten to one he comes to be a waistrel then, and, if it's a girl instead, a hundred to nothing she turns out a well, worse. Only a notion, is it? Just a parzon's lie, eh? Having your father's name is nothing no? That's what the man says. But ask the child, and shut your mouth for a fool."

Waiting for no explanation, concluding that Pete had been fishing for crabs among the stones of Port Lewaigue, he burst into a loud volley of his accustomed expletives, and timed and punctuated them by a thwack of the cane between every word. "The waistrel! The dirt! Pete said never a word.

As the clock in the cupola was striking ten, three men inside the building walked along the corridor to unbar the public entrance. "I half regret it," said one; "you have forced me into it. I should never have touched it but for you." "Tut, man," whispered another, "you saw how it was going. With yon man on the bench and yon other crafty waistrel at the bar, the chance was wellnigh gone.

Pete mistook Philip's hesitation for a silent commentary on his own unworthiness. "I know I'm only a sort of a waistrel," he said, "but, Phil, the way I'm loving that girl it's shocking. I can never take rest for thinking of her. No, I'm not sleeping at night nor working reg'lar in the day neither. Everything is telling of her, and everything is shouting her name.

"Did you know that the waistrel tried to get hands on the money for himself?" Sim was screaming out his questions, the sweat standing in round drops on his brow. The judges seemed too much amazed to remonstrate. "Tell us, quick. Did he try to get hands on it?" "Perhaps; what then?" "And did he get it?" "No." "And why not why not?" The anger of the witness threw him off his guard.

But, checking himself, he took up his bonnet and made for the door. "Don't look at me like that," Angus called after him, "or, maybe I'll clash the door in thy face." Wilson had gone by this time, and turning to his sons, Angus continued, "Did you see how the waistrel snirpt up his nose when the pedler said Cromwell was dead?"

He'd given the little waistrel the cross-buttock, and felled him on his head. I saw the other ride off, and I saw Simeon Stagg. When all was still, I crept out and took Wilson's money yes, I took it; but I flung it into the next beck. For the moment, when I touched him I thought he was alive. I've not been drinking hard since then, Ralph; no, nor never will again."