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Sir Patrick added something courteous about the honour of the charge. 'So soon! gasped Jean; 'are we really to go the morn? 'With morning light, if it be possible, fair ladies, said Sir Patrick. 'Ay, said James, 'then will we take Mary and the weans to the nunnery in St. Mary's Wynd, where none will dare to molest them, and I shall go on to St.
Oh, my weans, my weans, who'll care for you now when they've kilt your da? Oh, the bonny man, and the kind!" "Is it you, Master Neal?" said the farm servant. "Will you no fetch the minister till her?" "I will, I will," said Neal, conscience-stricken at having mentioned his own need in a home so sorely stricken with grief. He ran from the house back to the manse.
"After the funeral was owre, an' the mourners a' gane, I stood beside her grave, thinking owre the days o' my boyhood, when she an' I were happy weans, an' used to pu' the gowans together, on the heathery hills o' dear auld Scotland.
I want a decent hoose to live in; I want to see my man hae some leisure, an' my weans hae a chance in life for something better than just work and trouble," and her voice quivering with anger at the wrongs inflicted upon her, she would rattle away on her favorite topic. "There you go again. You are aye herp, herpin' at the big folk, or aboot the union.
And Jock McGilp too would be there, standing off and on, between the stories of his wild seafaring days and the ghost stories of his youth; and Robin McKelvie and his sister that met us on the shore head of the isle that night the Red Laird passed; and there was no Red Roland in her mind these days, for she had weans to her oxter.
Maybe on a winter day they wad be called out to beat the wood for cocks or siclike; and then the starving weans would maybe get a bite of broken bread, and maybe no, just as the butler was in humour that was a' they got."
The man came to me like a demented creature, and the whole clachan gathered out, young and old, and I went at their head to see what the miracle could be, for the man said it was a fiery dragon, spewing smoke and flames. But when we came to the spot, it was just a yird toad, and the laddie weans nevelled it to death with stones, before I could persuade them to give over.
Out come his mither like a fury, skirling about her hoose, and her servants, and her weans. 'Your servant! says I 'your servant! You're a nice-looking trollop to talk aboot servants, says I." "Did ye really, John?" "Man, that wath bauld o' ye." "And what did she say?" "Oh, she just kept skirling! And then, to be sure, Gourlay must come out and interfere!
Show me a word my Saunders daur speak, or a turn he daur do about the house, without it be just to tak his meat, and his drink, and his diversion, like ony o' the weans. He has mair sense than to ca' anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.
By thus denying himself every pleasure that body can bring and every satisfaction that human society can furnish; yea, more, by a renunciation of everything worldly to the extent of supreme physical pain and social deprivation, he separates and weans himself from all that is temporal, that he may pass on in sadness up the pathway of redemption.
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