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'My mither wor a Papist. A curious change of expression appeared on 'Lias's face. He put his hand behind his ear that he might hear better, turned a pair of cunning eyes on David, while his lips pressed themselves together. 'Your mither wor a Papist? an your feyther wor Sandy Grieve. Ay, ay I've yeerd tell strange things o' Sandy Grieve's wife, he said slowly.
'How many miles away is t' Greenland seas? I mean, how long do they take to reach? 'I don't know; ten days or a fortnight, or more, maybe. I'll ask. 'Oh! feyther 'll tell me all about it. He's been there many a time. 'I say, Sylvie! My aunt said I were to give you lessons this winter i' writing and ciphering. I can begin to come up now, two evenings, maybe, a week.
If I didna think on 'em, why should I do as I do, for the sake o' keeping things together here? But I hate to be talking where it's no use: I like to keep my breath for doing i'stead o' talking." "I know thee dost things as nobody else 'ud do, my lad. But thee't allays so hard upo' thy feyther, Adam.
"Many?" snorted Mottle-face, "there vos armies of 'em. But my feyther, as I think I mentioned afore, vere the bravest, boldest, best-plucked coachman as ever sat on a box." "I hope it runs in the family." "Sir, I ain't one give to boastin', nor yet to blowin' my own 'orn, but truth is truth, and it do!" "Good!" said the fussy gentleman, "very good!"
Oh!" exclaimed Janice, tugging at the man's sleeve, "what are you doing to Delia?" "'Delia, is it? More of her foolishness. She's Biddy Burns, and her husband is dead lucky man that he is. And I'm her feyther and the grandfeyther of her two babies Tessie and 'Melia. And if she don't come home this minute with me, I'll put the young ones in a home, so I will!"
"Escaped, Lord no, sir, they've only run avay, I can allus put my 'ooks on 'em, I spotted 'em, d'ye see. And I know 'em, Lord love you! like a feyther! They vas Bunty Fagan, Dancin' James, and Vistlin' Dick, two buzmen an' a prig." "What do you mean?" inquired Barnabas, beginning to eye the man askance for all his obtrusive mildness. "I means two pickpockets and a thief, sir.
"And, mark you! over an' above all this, my feyther vere the boldest cove that ever " "Yes, yes!" exclaimed the fussy gentleman impatiently, "but where does my valise come in?" "Your walise, sir," said Mottle-face, deftly flicking the off wheeler, "your walise comes in at the end, sir, and I'm a-comin' to it as qvick as you'll let me." "Hum!" said the gentleman again.
I haven't had tea yet, and they don't have tea at Bill's; but I like it, though feyther grumbles sometimes, and says it's too expensive for the likes of us in sich times as these; but he knows I would rather go without meat than without tea, so he lets me have it.
There was naebody wantit her to teach their bairns, and yon grandee o' a schulemistress telt the puir lassie she wasna competent for teachin', an' that efter a' the guid money her feyther had spent upo' her learnin'. Weel, Mary Ann she comes to me, an' says, 'Will ye gie me wark at Hunters' Brae? says she. 'The doctor's awa, says I, but she begged that hard I couldna say no to the creature.
I could then talk Russian quite fluently, but the technicalities of marine engineering were rather beyond me, and I had not the faintest idea of the Russian equivalents for, say, intermediate cylinder, or slide-valve. I stumbled lamely along somehow until a small red-haired boy came in and cried in the strongest of Glasgow accents, "Your tea is waiting on ye, feyther."
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