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Oh, wheesht with you, Eleanor, and don't be talking such balderdash. Five years! Holy O!" "What does 'Holy O! mean?" she demanded. "I don't know. It's just a thing to say when you can't think of anything else. Five years! Five minutes is more like it!" "We're too young to be married yet, and in five years' time we'll know each other much better!" "I should think so, too," he said.
Now, if I was taen awa, Sandy would be sair to mean wi' naebody about the house but a servant; and that gars me sometimes think I would maist like to see him married to some carefu lass like your Jenny afore my head be laid down." "Wheesht, Margaret!" said the other; "never let thae thoughts come owre ye, for there's an auld proverb that says, thought can kill and thought can cure.
'Wheesht! he said sternly. 'Nane shall pray for the deid on my hearth- stane. I disclaimed a Popish sense for my ejaculation; and he seemed to accept my disclaimer with unusual facility, and ran on once more upon what had evidently become a favourite subject. 'We fand her in Sandag Bay, Rorie an' me, and a' thae braws in the inside of her.
"Wheesht, Sandy," says I. "Keep me, if ye go on rantin' like that, the fowk 'ill think ye've startit the street preachin'. Haud your lang tongue. I'm no' michty muckle the waur." Sandy took oot his tnife an' gae me a bit skrape; an' we landit at the kirk an' got a rale gude sermon aboot the birkie 'at belanged to Simaria an' fell on his road hame, an' so on.
"Wheesht wheesht," he said, looking about uneasily, "siccan things are better never minted so close to the Parliament House where bide the Red Fifteen!" "Well," said I, "that's as may be, but I cannot have it said by you or any man that I lack spunk!"
There were nights of it when he was here on sentry, the place a' wheesht, the frosts o' winter maybe riving in the wa's, and he would hear are o' the prisoners strike up a psalm, and the rest join in, and the blessed sounds rising from the different chalmers or dungeons, I would raither say so that this auld craig in the sea was like a pairt of Heev'n.
He said he wad mairry me, an' I believed it, as mony anither has afore me. Wheesht, Teen; dinna greet. The sobs of the little seamstress shook the narrow bed, and appeared to distress Liz inexpressibly. Presently she glanced again at the face of Gladys, and was struck by its altered look.
'Ye needna fash; that's the way I've heard lassies speak aboot men, an' ye get a' yer thanks in ae day, said Liz bitterly. 'The best thing onybody can dae in this world is to look efter number one. It's the only thing worth livin' for. I wish I had never been born, an' I hope I'll no' live lang, that's mair. 'Oh, Liz, wheesht! 'What for should I wheesht?
He implored some one to tell him if "the first cook" was finished, and he upbraided some one else for "cooling off" too fast. The girl raised her head. "But I fear he has become mad," she said. "Wheesht, Mem," said Dickson, who recognized the jargon. "He's a papermaker." Saskia sat down on the litter and lifted his head so that it rested on her breast.
"Wheesht, mither," whispered the dying woman, slowly opening her eyes; "it is the Lord's doing shall not the Judge of a' the earth do right? We'll understand it a' some day for ever wi' the Lord!" The last words were audible only to the mother's ear. Food for the body, even if it could have availed her, came too late.
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