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Updated: May 16, 2025
I settled back to my place, re-charging the three pistols I had fired, and keeping watch with both eye and ear. Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. "It was Shuan bauchled it," I heard one say. And another answered him with a "Wheesht, man! He's paid the piper."
He was a critic and a moralist who would have been wholly wise, had he not been partly constitutionally insane. For there is blood in the brain, James even in the organ the vital principle of all our "eagle-winged raptures"; and there was a taint of the black drop of melancholy in his. Shepherd. Wheesht wheesht let us keep aff that subject.
And with that he leaned pretty far over the table, and in a mere breath of a whistle, but with a wonderful pretty sentiment, gave her a few bars of "Charlie is my darling." "Wheesht," says she, and looked over her shoulder to the door. "That's it," said Alan. "And him so young!" cries the lass.
"Fine as ye are!" with bitter scorn in her tones. "Ye'll never be fine wi' a mind like that." "Wheesht, woman Nellie! You're no feart. Dinna talk like that. We micht a' be strucken doon dead!"
And with that he leaned pretty far over the table, and in a mere breath of a whistle, but with a wonderful pretty sentiment, gave her a few bars of "Charlie is my darling." "Wheesht," says she, and looked over her shoulder to the door. "That's it," said Alan. "And him so young!" cries the lass.
"Belike," said the maiden, "she has been represented to you worse than she looks like if ye saw her, ye might change your opinion; and, perhaps, after a', that she isna bonny is a' that any one can say against her." "Wheesht, lassie!" said he; "I winna be forced to onything. A Scott may be led, but he winna drive. I have nae wish to see the face o' your young mistress, for I winna hae her.
"Wheesht, Lewie," said the man, grinning. "A herd's job is no for the likes o' you. But there's better wark waiting for ye than poalitics. It's a beggar's trade after a', and far better left to bagman bodies like yon Stocks. It's a puir thing for sac proper a man as you." "But what can I do?" cried Lewis in despair. "I have no profession. I am useless." "Useless!
Oh, dear, but it's a hard lot we hae to suffer!" and she sobbed in silence, while her husband stroked her pale, thin, toil-worn hands that hid her weeping eyes. "Wheesht, lassie!" he said brokenly. "Dinna you break doon noo, for you hae been the mainstay o' us a', when we wad hae lost heart often.
When I turned, here's him fleein' in the Sands wi' his fingers in his lugs, like spring-heeled Jeck. I tell ye, that man winna heed a single wird I say till him. Oh, wheesht! When Sandy's on for doin' something special, he nearhand aye mak's a gutter o't some wey or ither.
"So I will," she answered, "if Waster Lunny would haud his wheesht for a minute. You see the afternoon diet began in the ordinary way, and a' was richt until we came to the sermon. 'You will find my text, he says, in his piercing voice, 'in the eighth chapter of Ezra." "And at thae words," said Waster Lunny, "my heart gae a loup, for Ezra is an unca ill book to find; ay, and so is Ruth."
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