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She was clasping the bairn close to her, and the tears were running down her twa cheeks. She kissed him again and again. And the doctor, staring, grew uncomfortable. He beckoned to the nurse, and she stepped toward the bed to take the wean from its mither. Annie saw her, and held the bairn to Jamie. "Puir wean oh, oor puir wean!" she sighed. "Jamie, my man kiss him kiss him for the last time "
For seven years he continued with unwearied perseverance to wean them from all those distinctive habits that marked their original character and separated them from the rest of the empire; and at last, when he thought that he had succeeded in obliterating their attachment to the republican form of government, he advanced his claim to the absolute sovereignty, which was now sanctioned by numberless acts of submission, and by traitorous voices of assent within the council of the citizens.
They should so like to have the baby with them for a great many weeks! and they would take care of him, and play with him all day long. Their father once more interposed for the child's sake. Hester might go to Brighton, there wean her infant, and return to her husband; so that the little helpless creature might at least be safe.
Sir Peregrine before he answered bethought himself that any pledge given for a whole life-time must be foolish; and he bethought himself also that if he could wean his heir from rats for a year or so, the taste would perish from lack of nourishment. "I will say for two years," said Sir Peregrine, still maintaining his austere look.
But his rosy face became rosier when he met the horrified and sternly reproachful stare of Elspie's keen blue eyes as she turned round a whole volume of sermons expressed in her "Eh, sir?" Then she added, quietly, "I'll thank ye no to speak ill words in the ears o' this puir innocent new-born wean. It's no canny." "Humph! I suppose I must beg pardon again.
I now thought it high time to do away the custom of eating of live flesh and drinking of kava, and for that purpose used every persuasive method to wean the majority of the people from it. This, to my astonishment, was not taken in good part by the nation, and they looked with jealousy at those strangers who wanted to make innovations among them.
'And, Sir, how went it with the young laird and leddy? 'For the young laird a feckless, ugsome, sickly wean he was, puir laddie a knight cam by, an' behoved to take him to the King. Nay, but if you've been at Parish if that's what ye mean with your Lutetia ye'll have seen him an' the King. 'I saw the King, answered Malcolm; 'but among the Englishry.
Always give me strength to perform whatsoever thou mayest require at my hands; wean my affections more and more; attract me nearer to thyself; and lead me through this world as a stranger, never to be known to it more but by the name of JOHN YEARDLEY.
And yet it was only by a miracle that it did not bring death to Annie and her bairn and ruin to Jamie Lowden's whole life a decent laddie that asked nowt but to work for his wife and his wean and be a good and useful citizen. Canna men think twice before they bring such grief and trouble into the world? Canna they learn to get together and talk things over before the trouble, instead of afterward?
Skene, and remained in his possession till 1831, when it was sent to Abbotsford, where it now hangs. See Letter, Scott to Skene, under January 16th, 1831. Spean a wean, i.e. wean a child. H.W. Williams, a native of Wales, who settled in Edinburgh at the beginning of this century. His Travels in Italy and Greece were published in 1820, and the Views in Greece in 1827.
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