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"Art mad, man? That good-for-nothing scamp run for Assembly?" "Joe ain't no fool," asserted Hennion. "An' tho' his edication and grammer ain't up ter yers an' mine, squire, he thinks so like the way folks ere jest naow a-thinkin' thet it looks ter me as if he wud be put in." "The country is going to the devil!" groaned Mr. Meredith. "And ye'll throw your doubles for that worthless "
But I thought that he wud be sae glad an' sae proud to see his ain Jeanie sae sune. But, oh! ah, weel! I maun na think o' that; what I wud jist say is this, an' she took a sma' packet fra' her breast, while the tears streamed down her pale cheeks.
'Come hame wi' me and tak my pairt, and I'll promise ye to du my best. 'Ye maun tak yer ain pairt; and ye maun tak her pairt tu against hersel. 'It's no to be thoucht o', Kirsty! 'Ye winna? 'I canna my lane. I winna try 't. It wud be waur nor useless. Kirsty rose, turning her face homeward. Gordon sprang to his feet. She was already three yards from him. 'Kirsty!
"Who, then, could it be?" said Edith, a little startled herself now, and she explained the mystery of the garden. He was as nonplussed as herself, but, scratching his bushy head, he said, with a canny look, "I wud be glad if Hannibal's 'spook, as he ca's it, would eoom doon and hoe a bit for me," and Edith was so cheered and refreshed that she could even join him in the laugh.
"Noo, gin a' hed asked him hoo mony fouk wud come tae his beerial, he wud hae said, 'They 'ill be Drumsheugh an' yersel', an' maybe twa or three neeburs besides the minister, an' the fact is that nae man in oor time wud hae sic a githerin' if it werena for the storm.
Here I giggled as I recalled the gigantic figure of Dinah Shadd when she handed me my shirt. 'Ye may laugh, grunted Mulvaney. 'But I'm speakin' the trut', an 'tis you that are in fault. Dinah was a girl that wud ha' taken the imperiousness out av the Duchess av Clonmel in those days.
It was the iron rule of Holmes's nature to be just; but to-night dim perceptions of a deeper justice than law opened before him, problems he had no time to solve: the sternest fortress is liable to be taken by assault, and the dew of the coming morn was on his heart. "So as I've hunted fur him!" she whispered, weakly. "I didn't think it wud come to this. So as I loved him! Oh, Mr.
Suddenly his face turned into iron before their eyes, and he looked like one encountering a merciless foe. For there was a feud between MacLure and a certain mighty power which had lasted for forty years in Drumtochty. "The London doctor said that Saunders wud sough awa afore mornin', did he? Weel, he's an authority on fevers an' sic like diseases, an' ought tae ken.
But whin war is declared they begin to think what a tur-rble thing 'twud be if they niver come home to their fireside an' their wife got marrid again an' all their grandchildher an' their great-grandchildher an' their widow an' th' man that marrid her an' his divoorced wife an' their rilitives, descindants, friends, an' acquaintances wud have to live on afther father was dead and gone with a large piece iv broken iron in his stomach or back, as th' case might be, but a pension come fr'm th' Governmint.
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