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'And what may that be? said Fairford. 'He is KILLING me, replied Nanty Ewart; 'and I am only sorry he is so long about it. So saying he jumped on his feet, and, tripping up and down the deck, gave his orders with his usual clearness and decision, notwithstanding the considerable quantity of spirits which he had contrived to swallow while recounting his history.
'I wish they were at the bottom of Wampool river, with them they belong to, said Nanty Ewart. 'But they are part of cargo; and what to do with the poor young fellow 'Why, many a better fellow has roughed it on the grass with a cloak o'er him, said Crackenthorp. 'If he hath a fever, nothing is so cooling as the night air.
Come, cheerly, Mr. Fairford you will be taken good care of try to walk. Alan did so; and, refreshed by his halt, declared himself able to walk to the house with the sole assistance of the gardener. 'Why, that's hearty. Thank thee, Dick, for lending him thine arm' and Nanty slipped into his hand the guinea he had promised. 'Farewell, then, Mr.
She was the old governess who lived with Laura, and her real name was Panton, but she had always been "Nanty" in the far-off nursery days, and so she was called still by intimates of the family whose various branches she had trained to read and spell. Now she was as she herself said eating the bread of idleness; her two great and absorbing interests in life being Laura and knitting.
For Miss Panton Nanty with all her silliness had spoken words which were to all of them like a search-light suddenly turned upon the inner secrets of the woman who was dying upstairs. "Poor Ethel! I'm afraid so," said Mrs. Bradford. "It's true that she did take things to heart about the new houses, and the hedge, and all the rest." But the next moment that blinding light was blurred in Mrs.
I followed the auld rudas through twa courts she cost me mair money than her lugs were worth. 'Now, by Heaven! said Nanty, 'I would give a thousand guineas, if I had them, to have you worth my beating!
I burst out a-laughing in his face, told him it was all a humbug, and that the moidores were all his own, henceforth and for ever, and so ran off. I caused one of our people send him a bag of tea and a keg of brandy, before I left poor Jack! I think you are the second person these ten years, that has cared a tobacco-stopper for Nanty Ewart. 'Perhaps, Mr.
Never mind though, I will be upsides with him yet. 'Had not you once a tenement in the Covenant Close? again demanded Nanty. 'And do you not remember that you had a poor old lady for your tenant, Mrs. Cantrips of Kittlebasket? said Nanty, suppressing his emotion with difficulty. 'Remember!
'Nanty Ewart could steer through the Pentland Firth though he were as drunk as the Baltic Ocean, said Robin Hastie; and instantly tripping downstairs, he speedily returned with the materials for what he called his BROWST, which consisted of two English quarts of spirits, in a huge blue bowl, with all the ingredients for punch in the same formidable proportion. At the same time he introduced Mr.
We mean to stay a night with you, and taste your old brandy, and my dame's homebrewed. The signal is up, man, and all is right. 'All is wrong, Captain Nanty, cried the man to whom he spoke; 'and you are the lad that is like to find it so, unless you bundle off there are new brooms bought at Carlisle yesterday to sweep the country of you and the like of you so you were better be jogging inland.
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