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Updated: June 16, 2025
This time I was allowed to keep my seat in peace. The coach drove awa, an' me alang wi't; an', in twal hours thereafter, I fand mysel in my faither's hoose, safe and soun', after a' that had happened me.
"We hae ta'en Robin Brown's cart frae him," said he; "that I might come wi't unjealoused into the town, to hear what's to be done wi' the minister; but I maun tak it back the night, and maybe we'll fa' in thegither again when I hae done my errand."
"You could murder a man wi't." "Deed you could," said Loranogie; "you could kill him wi' the one lick." The elders, engaged with more important matters, paid no attention to the children, who had pushed between them to the front and were looking up at their faces, as they talked, with curious watching eyes.
"'I ken it wasna for me you did it, she said, 'but for him; but, oh, Mr. Whamond, will that make me think the less o' you? He's my all, she says, wi' that smile back in her face, and a look mixed up wi't that said as plain, 'and I need no more. I thocht o' saying that some builds their house upon the sand, but dagont, dominie, it's a solemn thing the pride mithers has in their laddies.
By the Almighty Etarnal he won't say't twice." "Have you purchased it?" "Neer a mind for that, mister; I've made it: that's my style o' purchase, an', by God! it'll stan' good, I reck'n. Consarn yur skin! what hev you got to do wi't anyhow?" "This," I replied, still struggling to keep calm, at the same time taking the title-deeds from my saddle-bags "this only, Mr Holt.
"An' when I'd got 'em, my head was all of a boil like a kettle o' broth, thinkin' what sort o' life I should take to, for there war a many trades I'd thought on; for as for the barge, I'm clean tired out wi't, for it pulls the days out till they're as long as pigs' chitterlings.
'They'll hae't a'! They'll hae't a'! cried she, wringing her hands; 'a'! they'll hae' a', an' hell wi't, an' they'll get them baith. 'Aweel, that's aye some satisfaction, quo I." "Whom did she mean by the Ringans, do you know?" "I fancy they are some creatures that she has dreamed about, for I think there canna be as ill folks living as she ca's them."
It were in the November arter the explosion that same total abstinence chap as got yourself to sign came to our house, and axed me to tell my experience at a meeting as was to be held in Langhurst on the twenty-third of the month. I'd sooner have had nothing to do wi't, but our Betty said she thought I were bound to speak for the good of the cause, so I told the gentleman as I would.
T' maister's down i' t' fowld. There's nobbut t' missis. I'll hae no hend wi't," muttered the head, vanishing. Then a young man, without coat and shouldering a pitchfork, hailed me to follow him, and showed me into the apartment where I had been formerly received with a gruff "Sit down; he'll be in soon." In the room sat the "missis," motionless and mute.
"Weel, then, what is't?" demanded Pete, who had never properly come under Tammas's spell. "I ken," said Tammas. "Oot wi't then." "I dinna say it's lyin' on my tongue," Tammas replied, in a tone of reproof, "but if ye'll juist speak awa aboot some other thing for a meenute or twa, I'll tell ye syne."
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