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Suppose I drink gin, my little wifie he 'fraid." To speak to her kindly was about more than I was fit for; I had made my vow I would never let on to weakness with a native, and I had nothing for it but to stop. She stood looking gravely down at me where I sat by the open case. "I think you good man," she said. And suddenly she had fallen before me on the floor.
'Wifie! exclaimed Robert, drawing her a little apart, 'do you know it has just occurred to me that, as I was going through the park this afternoon by the lower footpath, I crossed Henslowe coming away from the house. Of course this is what has happened! He has told his story first. No doubt just before I met him he had been giving the squire a full and particular account
Your uncle spoke at last. "Wee wifie," he said, "one must not be in a hurry to break a connection of thirty-three years' standing. I was but two years old when Mr Popham, the father of Francis and John, first took me up.
"I maun gang, dearest; I maun gang," said Willie, and pressed her to his breast; "but the thocht o' my ain wifie will mak the months chase ane anither like the moon driving shadows owre the sea. There's nae danger in the voyage, hinny, no a grain o' danger; sae dinna greet; but come, kiss me, Tibby, and when I come hame I'll mak ye leddy o' them a'."
Now, go and get ready for your journey, my little wifie," and with a tender embrace he hurried away, and Dexie flew upstairs to her room. She had barely time to lock the door when Gussie came towards it. "Open this door at once," she said, as she found it locked. "Mamma says you are to go to the kitchen and finish the work, and if you make any more fuss about it you will be sorry for it."
Six miles from home he saw a mud house on the top of a hill, and ascended genially. He found at their porridge a very old lady with a nut-cracker face, and a small boy. We shall see them again. "Auld wifie," said Corp, "I dinna ken you, but I've just stepped up to tell you that Gavinia is to hae me." It made him the butt of the sportive.
He leaned back now, his arms folded upon his chest, his eyes gloating upon the abject misery of the woman who had wronged him. "Where are you taking me?" she asked at last. "To Portillac, my little wifie." "And why there? What would you do to me?" "I would silence that little lying tongue forever. It shall deceive no more men." "You would murder me?" "If you call it that."
The wee doggie cam' again to 'is maister's buryin'. Man, ye ne'er saw the like o' it. The wifie found 'im flattened oot to a furry door-mat, an' greetin' to brak 'is heart." "It's a remarkable story; and he's a beautiful little dog, and a leal one." The minister stooped and patted Bobby, and he was thoughtful all the way to the gate. "The matter need not be brought up in any formal way.
Our poor little wifie, she has no doubts of the personality of the Devil!
The wifie I lodge wi' canna last lang, an' I would like to settle doon in some place." "So you are on your way to Mag's now?" "Ay, we'll get her in atween twal' and ane." "Oh, yes; but why do you want me to go with you?" "I want ye for a witness. If she winna let me aff, weel and guid; and if she will, it's better to hae a witness in case she should go back on her word."
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