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'I beg yer pardon? 'Ach, ye ken what I mean. He fancied we wud enjoy a wee whiley jist by oorsel's. 'Speak for yersel'! I'm thinkin' it was exceedingly rude o' him to slope wi'oot tellin' me he had enjoyed his tea. 'He asked me to tell ye that he hadna enjoyed hissel' sae weel since his uncle's funeral, ten year back. Christina gave a little sniff. 'That's a nice sort o' compliment.
“Will you oblige me by a relation of the circumstance?” said our skipper to Whiley, who commanded the cutter. “It happened in the following manner: I had information of this Charlestown vessel before I left Port Royal, and I was determined to look keenly after her. I had been off the Mosquito shore, where I understood she was bound with gunpowder and small arms.
Na, you canna see in the dark, but haud my hand, haud it tight, so that, when you tell Elspeth, you'll mind how hot it was, and the skin loose on it; and put your hand on my cheeks, man, and feel how wet they are wi' sorrowful tears, and lay it on my breast, so that you can tell her how I was shrunk awa'. And if she greets for her mother a whiley, let her greet."
'But those days are gone, my mother says solemnly, 'gone to come back no more. You'll put by your work now, man, and have your supper, and then you'll come up and sit beside your mother for a whiley, for soon you'll be putting her away in the kirk-yard. I hear such a little cry from near the door. So my mother and I go up the stair together.
To dodge it for another moment he said, weakly: "Let's let's sit down a whiley on the dyke." But Grizel, while coveting the packet, because she had never got a present in her life, would not shilly-shally. "Are you to give it to Elspeth?" she asked, with the horrid directness that is so trying to an intellect like Tommy's. "N-no," he said. "To Grizel?" cried Elspeth. "N-no," he said again.
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