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He might have understood from his own experience what Maggie was suffering; but David had his mind full of grand themes, and he brushed the opinions of a few fishermen off, as he brushed a fly from his open book. After he had returned to Glasgow, Aunt Janet said, with an air of wrong and offence "Brither and sister sail in one boat;" and she had more sympathy for her opinion.
Everything was cleared up at the end, an' the young man Lord Bellew was jealous o' turns oot to be only her brither. The last chapter tells aboot the christenin' o' the heir, an' she wears a white brocade goon, trimmed wi' real pearls an' ostrich feathers. Fancy you an' me in a frock like that! Wad it no' mak' a' the difference? 'I don't know, I'm sure.
My brither Randy was on the jury, and he tauld me it a' ower a pot o' ale in the taproom o' the 'Highlander, where I was resting while my horses fed," said the old man gravely. A dark, crimson flush overspread the face of the viscount. Cuthbert had heard all about it. Cuthbert had heard, then, those disgraceful revelations concerning himself. He need not have blushed before Cuthbert.
But I aye like waur to meet Sandy by himsel' upo' that reekit deevil o' his. Man, it's awfu' whan Black Geordie turns the white o' 's ee, an' the white o' 's teeth upo' ye. It's a' the white 'at there is about 'im. 'Wasna yer brither i' the airmy, Shargar? 'Ow, 'deed ay. They tell me he was at Watterloo. He's a cornel, or something like that. 'Wha tellt ye a' that?
As if the breath o' an angry woman could make Him turn the keys that nane turn but Him. And if you want to ken whar I am going, I may as weel tell you now, as the morn. I am going to my brither Davie, for I cannot thole the bad tongue and the bad heart o' you, anither day." "Hear to the wicked lass! My bad tongue! My bad heart! I sall scream oot at sich words "
Do you know that incident in connection with the little Scottish girl? She was trudging along, carrying as best she could a boy younger, but it seemed almost as big as she herself, when one remarked to her how heavy he must be for her to carry, when instantly came the reply: "He's na heavy. He's mi brither."
"Ye're come in time," said Auntie Meg, and whispered to the old woman�-"My brither Jeames's bairn." "Ay, ye're come in time, lassie," said the great-aunt kindly, and said no more. The dying man heard the words, opened his eyes, glanced once at Annie, and closed them again. "Is that ane o' the angels come?" he asked, for his wits were gone a little way before.
The brother and sister sat open-mouthed, pale with excitement, afraid of losing a single syllable. 'An takkin it awthegither, he said, bringing each word out with an effort, 'I doan't think, by t' Lord's mercy, as I've gone soa mich astray, though I ha been mich troobled this four year wi thowts o' Sandy my brither Sandy an wi not knowin wheer yo wor gone, Davy.
"You have given me a delightful hour, Mrs. McNish," he said as he shook hands. "You made me think of my own home in the old days, I mean before the war came and smashed everything." The old lady's eyes were kindly scanning his face. "Ay, the war smashed yere hame?" Maitland nodded in silence. "His brither," said Malcolm, quietly. "Puir laddie," she said, patting his hand.
It may recall to him misty recollections of communications which followed a course something like this: "And so ye see, auld Pittoddles, when his third wife deed, he got married upon the laird o' Blaithershin's aughteenth daughter, that was sister to Jemima, that was married intil Tam Flumexer, that was first and second cousin to the Pittoddleses, whase brither became laird afterwards, and married Blaithershin's Baubie and that way Jemima became in a kind o' way her ain niece and her ain aunty, an' as we used to say, her gude-brither was married to his ain grannie."
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