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We're not more hard pressed than our neighbours. Look at Janet Ross with all her bairns, and her rent owing for three terms; and auld Betty Matthew, at the Croft, who hasna a penny forbye what she gets at the kelp burning. We have our two bonnie cows, and a score of good sheep, and all our hens." "We have all that," replied my mother.
Gosford and Chandler, however, remained, and Gosford continued the subject of Bartlett's widow. "What's she a-stayin' on for up there?" "Old Bartlett's left her a goodish bit." "She wur younger than he." A dead silence of some minutes. "She ain't a-goin' to take the Croft on herself," observed Gosford. "Them beasts of the squire's," replied Chandler, "fetched a goodish lot.
Croft South African Republic? "'Yes, little Miss, this is his house, and this is the South African Republic, and I am he. And now who might you be, my dears? I answered. "'If you please, sir, we are your nieces, and we have come to you from England. "'What! I holloaed, startled out of my wits, as well I might be.
The other, a dark little man, with a quick, fiery eye, was a Western Celt, who had worried his way from a fishing croft in Barra to be an easy first in Philosophy at Edinboro', and George and Ronald Maclean were as brothers because there is nothing so different as Scottish and Highland blood.
Parma, it was to be feared, was more than a match for the English governor-general in the field; and it was certainly hopeless for poor old Comptroller Croft, even though backed by the sagacious Burghley, to accomplish so great an amount of dissimulation in a year as the Spanish cabinet, without effort, could compass in a week. Nor were they attempting to do so.
Croft was praised for his generous conduct, and not only praised, but helped by many who had, until now, felt indifferent, towards his case for his good work rebuked them for neglected opportunities.
And he knew not what it was until the mice had made their way into the croft, and each of them climbing up the straw and bending it down with its weight, had cut off one of the ears of wheat, and had carried it away, leaving there the stalk, and he saw not a single stalk there that had not a mouse to it. And they all took their way, carrying the ears with them.
This touched the very sensitive soul of his companion, and with such a sparkle of talk did she evince her gratification, that almost any one would have been able to see that she was a young lady who had an earnest sympathy with those who had undergone afflictions, but were now freed from them. Aunt Patsy was glad to see her visitors, particularly glad, it seemed, to see Mr Croft.
"Dare not!" he answered; "you must understand me very ill, Bessie Croft, when you talk of what I dare not do for you. There is nothing," he added, with a thrill of his rich voice, "that I dare not do to gain you. Listen: promise to marry me to-morrow morning.
Then her father came in and sent her down to the village for the old woman who attended to the births and deaths of people. She went over the croft, among the hungry cows that stared at her, one after one as she passed.
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