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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Dinna warstle yersel' to death, Aggie," he said. "I maun haud up wi' my man," she replied. "He's a het man at the scythe ower het! He'll be fit for naething or the week be oot. He canna haud on at this rate!" "Ay can he fine that! Ye dinna ken oor yoong laird. He's worth twa ordinar' men. An' gien ye dinna think me fit to gather til' 'im, I s' lat ye see ye're mistaen, Mr. Crawford."
"Na fear, yoong mon," said the grim old warrior. "Weel, now ai'll juist be takin' anither look at him." Herman went in with the doctor, and stood looking on while the old man peered and felt about. He came out soon, and leaving a few directions with Herman and Chapman, took his departure. Everything seemed favorable, he said.
"Daur ye preshume, Watty Witherspaill," she went on, "for no rizzon but that I ga'e you the job, an' unnertook to pay ye for't an' that far abune its market value, daur ye preshume, I say, to dictate to me what I'm to du an' what I'm no to du anent the maitter in han'? Think ye I hae been a mither to the puir yoong thing for sae mony a year to lat her gang awa' her lane at the last wi' the likes o' you for company!"
"If me yoong frind here an me roight"—and Costigan jerked a shoulder towards the boy—"will be afther closin’ that silf-feeding automatic dictionary av his for a moment, I shud be glad to call the attintion av the coomp’ny to somethin’ in the nature av an ixtinuatin’ circoomsthance in the case av Simpson." "Hear! hear!" they shouted.
"I can show what dhe yoong ladies want yes?" she inquired with a most disarming smile. "Oh, we want to look about, first of all," cried Bess. "Look at all those blankets, Nan! What bully things to throw over our couch!" "And that lovely spread!" cried Grace. They went from one lot of goods to another. The Mexican girl, smiling and quite enjoying their comments, strolled after them.
"I'm glaid to see the yoong wuman an' a bonny lass she is in sic guid company," said Miss Horn, looking down from the opposite side of the way. "I'm thinkin' the han' o' the markis 'ill be i' this, no'!" All was ready to receive her, but in the present bad state of the harbor, and the tide having now ebbed a little way, the boat could not get close either to quay or shore.
I'm maist as guid's a man to gang wi' ye wi' the advantage o' bein' a wuman, as my mither tells me:" She called her grandmother, MOTHER. "ye see we can daur mair nor ony man but, Guid forgie me! no mair nor the yoong laird whan he flang his CAESAR straucht i' the maister's face this verra mornin'." The laird stopped, turned sharply round, and looked at her. "What did he that for?" he said.
Who being come ouer to his father, informed him of the whole mater, and did so much by his earnest suit therin, that before the feast of Easter, his father went ouer with him into Normandie, and immediatlie vpon their arriuall in those parts, the old French quéene, mother to the yoong king Philip, with their brethren the said earles, and manie other Noble men of France came vnto him, and concluding a league with him, deliuered hostages into his hands, and re-ceiued an oth to follow his counsell and aduice in all things.
The yoong king reioicing that he had his brethren thus on his side, readie to take his part, became more stout than before, and for answere vnto the messengers that came to him from his father, he declared that if his father would deliuer vp the whole gouernment into his hands, he would be content to breake vp his armie.
Varra careless of him to ha' left it so long! aw mine wor safe i't' fold by fower o'clock. An' I thowt, miss, as I'd mak bold, afore goin' back to t' farm, to coom an' ast yo, if t' yoong leddy got safe hoam this afternoon?
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