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He was fond of flowers, and she looked like one herself that spring morning. "I was directed to call upon you," she said, with conciliatory politeness, "understanding that you sometimes assist people with their gardens." "Weel, noo and then I do, but I canna give mooch time with a' my ain work." "But you would help a lady who has no one else to help her, wouldn't you?" said Edith sweetly.
"What are ye propheseein' at, Mr Cupples?" said Alec, who did not more than half understand him. "Verra weel. I'm no drunk yet," rejoined Mr Cupples, oracularly. "But that chield Beauchamp's no rainbow that lat me tell ye. He'll do you a mischeef yet, gin ye dinna luik a' the shairper. I ken the breed o' him. He was luikin' at ye throu the window like a hungry deevil. Min' I'm tellin' ye.
Ye'll understaun' better if a' show ye as weel as tell ye. Weel, now, he made twa men tie ma' hands behind ma' back first if ony o' ye will lend me a first field dressing I'll show ye how they did it."
"Certainly, my lord," answered the howdy, with mingled presumption and respect, and followed him to the dining room. "Weel, my lord," she began, before he had turned from shutting the door behind them, in the tone and with the air, or rather airs, of having conferred a great benefit, and expecting its recognition.
"Weel, man, here's to ye, Andy ou, man, but this yill is extraordinar' gude." "Why," replied Andy, who, by the way, seldom went sober to bed, and who was even now nearly three sheets in the wind, "it is. Mr. Malcomson, the right stuff. But, as I was sayin', you Scotchmen think first and spake afther one of the most unlucky practices that ever anybody had.
Helen looked up sharply as she asked the question. There was a light of wrath struggling with the grief in her eyes and the half-breed was startled by it. "I tak' you to anodder man who weel lov' you as white squaws desire. He " "Who is this man?" she asked, suddenly interrupting him. But the half-breed developed a sudden wariness. "Non!" he said.
He came up to Annie, and addressed her in the smoothest voice he could find, fumbling at the same time in his coat-pocket. "Hoo are ye the nicht dawtie? Are ye verra weel? An' hoo's yer auntie?" He waited for no reply to any of these questions, but went on. "See what I hae brocht ye frae the chop." So saying, he put into her hand about half-a-dozen sweeties, screwed up in a bit of paper.
And now the word gangs, the Colonel is to be tried, and to suffer wi' them that were ta'en at Carlisle. 'And his sister? 'Aye, that they ca'd the Lady Flora weel, she's away up to Carlisle to him, and lives wi' some grand Papist lady thereabouts, to be near him. 'And, said Edward, 'the other young lady? 'Whilk other? I ken only of ae sister the Colonel had.
He wasna maybe sae shairp at the elements as this pirjinct body we hae noo, but a'body kent he was a terrible scholar and a credit tae the parish. Drumtochty was a name in thae days wi' the lads he sent tae college. It was maybe juist as weel he slippit awa' when he did, for he wud hae taen ill with thae new fikes, and nae college lad to warm his hert."
'Weel, ye've got back, was all he could utter, and her attitude stopped him in the first movement of offering his hand. 'Yesterday afternoon, she returned coldly. 'Ay, I ken. I wish ye had sent me word, he managed to say after a slight pause. 'It did not seem necessary. I suppose your mother told you. 'I heard it first frae Aunt Purdie. I missed ye by less nor an 'oor. It was gey hard lines.
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