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"An' that micht put mony a waukent conscience soon' asleep again maybe no to be waukent ony mair," said Blue Peter. "Then you don't think you can either communicate or receive benefit by continuing to take a part in those meetings?" "I dinna think it," answered all three. "Then the natural question is 'Why should you go?"
I dinna think it's likly to be the angels. It's mair like wark for the bairnies up yoner at the muckle ferm at hame, whaur ilk ane, to the littlest littlin, kens what he's aboot, and no ane o' them's like some o' 's doon here, 'at gangs a' day in a dream, and canna get oorsels waukent oot o' 't.
"Gien ye dinna want him, gie him to me: I want him!" said Maggie eagerly. "Want him!" returned Isy, bursting into tears; "I hae lived but upo the bare houp o' gettin him again! I hae grutten my een sair for the sicht o' 'im! Aften hae I waukent greetin ohn kenned for what! and noo ye tell me I dinna want him, 'cause I hae nae spot but my breist to lay his heid upo!
'And noo 'at I hae telt ye, he added, 'it luiks a' sae strange 'at maybe I hae been but dreamin, efter a'! But it maun be true, for that maun hae been what the angels cam cryin upo' me for. I'm thinkin they wud hae broucht me straucht til her themsels they maistly gang aboot in twas, as whan they gaed and waukent the bonny man gien it hadna been 'at the guid collie was aiqual to that!
"You're bent on murdering me are you then?" said the marquis, beginning to come to himself and see the ludicrousness of the situation. "Gien I had been that, my lord, I wadna hae waukent ye up first." "Well, what the devil is it all about? You needn't think any of the men will come. They're a pack of the greatest cowards ever breathed."
Na, na, my son! gien I hae ony pooer to read the trowth o' things, the life 'at's gien is no taen; an' whatever come o' the cratur, the love it waukent in a human breist,'ill no more be lost than the objec' o' the same.
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