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From his standpoint he knew that a line drawn through that light must fall upon the cottage of the Tregenzas beyond it on the shore, and, fixing his eyes where the building lay hidden, he stretched out his hand and spoke aloud. "May God strike me blind and daft if ever I looks 'pon yon light an' yonder cot again till the man be dead."
Oh, better be, as the Scotch say, a little "daft," nevertheless having grace in the heart; better be like poor Richard Hampson, the Cornish fool, whose biography has just appeared in England a silly man he was, yet bringing souls to Jesus Christ by scores and scores giving an account of his own conversion, when he said: "The mob got after me, and I lost my hat, and climbed up by a meat-stand, in order that I might not be trampled under foot, and while I was there, my heart got on fire with love toward those who were chasing me, and, springing to my feet, I began to exhort and to pray."
But when I saw around me so many of my people clad in complimentary mourning for the gallant Charles Malcolm, and that even poor daft Jenny Gaffaw, and her daughter, had on an old black riband; and when I thought of him, the spirited laddie, coming home from Jamaica with his parrot on his shoulder, and his limes for me, my heart filled full, and I was obliged to sit down in the pulpit, and drop a tear.
It's a queer thing o' me, gentlemen, that am a man o' peace mysell, and a peacefu man's son for the deacon my father quarrelled wi' nane out o the town-council it's a queer thing, I say, but I think the Hieland blude o' me warms at thae daft tales, and whiles I like better to hear them than a word o' profit, gude forgie me!
Partly the whirl by night and day, I suppose, is my bane; still more, the endless meeting of fresh and fresh small talk, with the fatigue of listening, and the impression on my brain of miscellaneous memories when I ought to sleep. In Oxford, from like causes, I became as it were 'daft, and from forgetfulness of the right words could not complete an English sentence.
It's John Storm!" the old woman cried, and she lifted both hands as if to fling herself into his arms. "My guidness, laddie, but you gave poor auld Jane sic a start! Expected ye? To be sure we expected you, and terribly thrang we've been all morning making ready. Only my daft auld brain must have been a wee ajee.
"Weel, I think thae daft carles the magistrates send naebody to Bedlam but me thae maun hae an unco respect for me, for whenever I am brought to them, thae aye hae me back to Bedlam. I often tell him he's the daftest in a' the house. But what are they making sic a skirling for?
You ken how, when she has a daft fit, she wanders the Den trysting the man that never comes. Has she no been seen at all hours o' the night, Grizel following a wee bit ahint, like as if to take tent o her?" "They say that, and that Grizel canna get her to go home till the daft fit has passed." "Well, she has that kechering hoast and spit now, and so Grizel brings her up here out o' the blasts."
"Weel, ye're wiser than I thought ye." For a long time they sat in silence, until at last Ellen took up the letter to read it again, and began with the date at the head. "Jean," she cried, holding it out to her sister and pointing to the date with shaking finger. "Wull ye look at that noo! Are we both daft? It's no possible for him to ha' gotten there before that letter was written to Hester.
It showed the garden an empty silver square, trenched at the end by the soot-black shadow of the hedge. "She's not there!" he exclaimed. "Well, she did say something about going down on the marshes." Ellen felt a little sick as she saw his face whiten. She had known when the woman announced her daft intention that trouble would come of it.
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