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As if to satisfy herself once more ere she replied, she took the miniature, and gazed at it for some time. Then with a deep hopeless sigh, she answered, 'Ay, it's like him; but it's no himsel'. Eh, the bonny broo, an' the smilin' een o' him! smilin' upon a'body, an' upo' her maist o' a', till he took to the drink, and waur gin waur can be.
"There's matter enow," replied the lunatic, "mair than ae puir mind can bear, I trow. Stay a bit, and I'll tell you a' about it; for I like ye, Jeanie Deans a'body spoke weel about ye when we lived in the Pleasaunts And I mind aye the drink o' milk ye gae me yon day, when I had been on Arthur's Seat for four-and-twenty hours, looking for the ship that somebody was sailing in."
Still, I was verra reluctant tae mak' the journey. I was no kennin' what sort of a hand I'd be for an ocean voyage. And then, I was liking my ain hame fine, and the idea of going awa' frae it for many months was trying tae me. It was William Morris persuaded me in the end, of course. There's a man would persuade a'body at a' tae do his will.
A'body kens yer gran'father was naething but the blin' piper o' Portcloddie. This was news to Robert probably false, considering the quarter whence it came. But his mother-wit did not forsake him. 'Weel, Mr. Lumley, he answered, 'didna he pipe weel? Daur ye tell me 'at he didna pipe weel? as weel's ye cud hae dune 't yersel', noo, Mr. Lumley?
"I d'na care for her hair either," continued Jamie, who was very nice in his tastes; "something mair yalloweby wid be an improvement." "A'body kins," growled Sam'l, "'at black hair's the bonniest." The others chuckled. "Puir Sam'l!" Pete said. Sam'l not being certain whether this should be received with a smile or a frown, opened his mouth wide as a kind of compromise.
Sanders smiled. "D'ye think she is, Sanders?" "Weel, Sam'l, I d'na want to fluster ye, but she's been ower lang wi' Lisbeth Fargus no to hae learnt her ways. An a'body kins what a life T'nowhead has wi' her." "Guid sake, Sanders, hoo did ye no speak o' this afore?" "I thocht ye kent o't, Sam'l." They had now reached the square, and the U.P. kirk was coming out.
There maun be those that sell tickets, and tak' them at the doors, and ushers to show the folk their seats. And e'en before a'body comes tae the hoose to pay his siller for a ticket there's others I'm dependent upon. How do they ken I'm in the toon at a'? They've read it in the papers, maybe and there's reporters and printers I've tae thank.
"Mercy me!" exclaimed my cousin, hastily, "hae ye no gotten the siller? Wha did ye see, or what did they say?" "I saw the wife," returned the boy; "an' she said 'Siller! laddie, what's brought ye here for siller? I daresay your maister's daft! Do ye no ken we're broken! I'm sure a'body kens that we broke yesterday!"
Deans, with a gravity that seemed intended to cut short the subject; but a woman who is bent upon a point is not easily pushed aside from it. "And," continued Mrs. Butler, "he can wag his head in a pulpit now, neibor Deans, think but of that my ain oe and a'body maun sit still and listen to him, as if he were the Paip of Rome."
At some o' the lines o' the "Macgregor's Gaitherin'" it was like the wind thunderin' doon Glen Tanner, or the Rooshyan guns at Sebastypool. I cudna help frae notisin' hoo it garred a'body sit straucht up.
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