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"What is the matter?" said Mr. Menteith, sharply. "You're gone daft, man;" for the big Highlander was trembling like a child. "Whisht! Dinna speak o't. It was my lord's wraith, ye ken. It just keekit in and slippit awa." "Folly! I saw nothing." "But I think I did," said Lord Cairnforth. "Hear him! Ay, he saw't his ain sel. Then it maun be true. Oh my dear lord!"
"Faith," said Father Tierney, "and that's for you to judge, general. It was the avenin' of the eighth, and I was sittin' in my parlour after Judy O'Flaherty's funeral, and having just parted with Father Lavalle at the Noviciate. And there came a rap, and an aide of Stonewall Jackson's But whisht! maybe I am taking up your time, general, with things you already know?" "Go on, go on!
"Don't talk of pluckin' geese you have taken some feathers out o' the Bible blades, to all accounts. How do you expect to be saved by joining an open heresy?" "Whisht, you hathen, that has taken to idolathry bekase Father M'Cabe made an ass of you by a thrick that every one knows. But I tell you to your brazen face, that you'll be worse yet than ever you were."
'Whisht, gudewife; is this a time or is this a day to be singing your ranting fule sangs in? a time when the wine of wrath is poured out without mixture in the cup of indignation, and a day when the land should give testimony against popery, and prelacy, and quakerism, and independency, and supremacy, and erastianism, and antinomianism, and a' the errors of the church?
For heaven's sake, is there no news at all from anywhere?" The men looked at her. They did not like to say, "It's your fault", so they only shook their heads. Presently Walsh said: "There's a boat missin'." Bridget screamed, and began to beat her breast and clap her hands. "Whisht! will you," said the boatman. "We're bad enough without that. Give us peace to think a bit.
"Aggie," he called, still on the farther side of the bed he called gently, but trembled at the sound of his own voice "did ye ever hear did Grannie mak mention o' a door 'at the auld captain gaed oot at?" "Whisht, whisht!" cried Aggie, in a loud hissing whisper, which seemed to pierce the marrow of Cosmo's bones, "I rede ye say nae thing aboot that i' this chaumer.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Bothwell began to put the test-oath with such a degree of solemn reverence as might have been expected, being just about the same which is used to this day in his majesty's custom-house. "You what's your name, woman?" "Alison Wilson, sir." "Oh, whisht, mither, whisht! they're upon a communing Oh! whisht, and they'll agree weel eneuch e'enow."
The moment I appeared, both rose, and commenced a narrative, for such I judge it to be, but so energetically and so completely together, that I could only bow politely, and at last request that one, or the other, would inform me of the object of their visit. Here began the tug of war, the Doctor saying, 'Arrah, now Giles' Mr. Beamish interrupting by 'Whisht, I tell ye now, can't you let me!
"I am informed that a circle of dangerous char-ackters with green noses gather there and drink cider containing more than two-seventy-five per cent of apple juice. I'm about to pull the place." "For Heaven's sake, Terry; don't do that! You'll scare " "Whisht, Dominie!" interrupted Terry with an elaborate wink. "There'll be no surprise, except maybe to the Judge in the morning.
But whisht, may be they're asleep; ay, asleep, and ah, sure if ever any creatures wanted sleep, they do sleep, darlin's, sleep I'll not make a noise to waken one of you but what's that? "Here she clasped her hands, and looked with such a gaze of affright and horror around her, as I never saw on a human face before. "'What's that?
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