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Tommy knew now of something better than that. "And I knows too!" Elspeth gurgled, "and I has threepence a'ready, I has." "Whisht!" said Tommy, in an agony of dread, "she hears you, and she'll guess. We ain't speaking of nothing to give to you at Hogmanay," he said to his mother with great cunning.
'Now, that will not pass, said the postilion, who, at a respectful distance, was listening to the conversation, 'begging Mr. 'Whisht, Jock, said the landlady. 'Ay? and what do YE ken o' the matter, friend Jabos? said the precentor, contemptuously. 'No muckle, to be sure, Mr.
"More likely he is hoping to get a glimpse of Ireland, for he would be as likely to look in that direction as any other. I say, Tim!" The Irishman did not heed the call until he was addressed the second time in a louder tone than before, when he suddenly raised his head. "Whisht! what is it?" "What are you thinking about?" "Nothin', I was dreaming." "Dreaming! what about?"
That night as Reicht was in her first sleep a hand gently pressed her shoulder, and she awoke, and was going to scream, "Whisht," said Margaret, and put her finger to her lips. She then whispered, "Rise softly, don thy habits, and come with me!" When she came down, Margaret begged her to loose Dragon and bring him along.
But Mad Bell merely replied, "Whisht gabbin', and hould that," thrusting, as she spoke, her little handkerchief bundle into his arms. And thereupon, making a sudden dive, she vanished among the flame-sheathing smoke.
She now unbolted the door, the danger being at an end, and went up to acquaint Phil with the good news. "You may come down now," she said. "Is he gone?" inquired Phil. "Shure he's runnin' up the street as fast as his legs can carry him." "Thank you for saving me from him," said, Phil, with a great sense of relief at the flight of his enemy. "Whisht now; I don't nade any thanks.
Girls or men, she moidhers thim all once she gets the comeither on them; same as she did Buck M'Cann." "Who's he?" "Buck M'Cann? Faith, he was the village ijit where I used to live in the ould days." "What's that'" "Hould your whisht, an' don't be axin' questions. He was always wantin' the moon, though he was twinty an' six feet four.
But stay, whisht, now!" for the Master was beginning to exclaim against this transference, "never say a word, but just see to get them changed in the first town ye ride through, for they are bran new frae the mint, and ken-speckle a wee bit."
Malcolm knew good-natured Brother Nicolas, and kept his hood well over his face after the first salutation; though he felt confident that Lord Malcolm could hardly be recognized in the begging scholar, as he made reply, 'Salve, reverende frater. Venio de Lutetia Parisiorum. 'Whisht with your Latin, laddie, said the brother.
Behind the lattice, on these summer evenings, stands the militant figure of that old retainer, Bridget the cook, her stout arms akimbo, ready to engage in vigorous banter should Honora deign to approach. "Whisht, 'Nora darlint, it's a young lady yell be soon, and the beaux a-comin' 'round!" she would cry, and throw back her head and laugh until the tears were in her eyes.
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