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Soon there came an interchange of speeches between him and Rorie. 'Was it there? asked my uncle. 'Ou, ay! said Rorie. I observed that they both spoke in a manner of aside, and with some show of embarrassment, and that Mary herself appeared to colour, and looked down on her plate.
He knew too well what his mother's serious talk meant. He shrugged his shoulders with a movement that indicated a dormant resistance, and went quietly into the drawing-room. Rorie comes of Age. "Bless my soul!" cried the Squire; "it's a vixen, after all." This is how Squire Tempest greeted the family doctor's announcement of the his baby's sex.
"How late you arrived this evening," she said, after a pause. "I came to five-o'clock with my aunt, and found her quite anxious about you. If it hadn't been for your telegram from Southampton, she would have fancied there was something wrong." "She needn't have fidgeted herself after three o'clock," answered Rorie coolly; "my luggage must have come home by that time." "I see.
"It will be hard to cheesel," Rorie opined reluctantly; and just then, dropping the oars, he made another of those dives into the stern which I had remarked as he came across to fetch me, and, leaning his hand on my shoulder, stared with an awful look into the waters of the bay. "What is wrong?" I asked, a good deal startled.
Oh Rorie, if you knew what it cost me to counsel you wisely, to bid you do your duty; when the vision of a happy life with you was smiling at me all the time, when the warm grasp of your dear hand made my heart thrill with joy, what a heroine you would think me!
Rorie had tried to chase him, but in vain; madness lent a new vigour to his bounds; he sprang from rock to rock over the widest gullies; he scoured like the wind along the hill-tops; he doubled and twisted like a hare before the dogs; and Rorie at length gave in; and the last that he saw, my uncle was seated as before upon the crest of Aros.
'I wad hae cawed Reid Rorie ower the heid o' 'm, an' left him lyin' the coorse villain! The horses never flagged till they drew up in the main street of Stonehaven. Robert ran down to the harbour to make inquiry, and left Shargar to put them up. The moon had risen, but the air was so full of vapour that she only succeeded in melting the darkness a little.
Above his bed was this inscription: 'Sir Rorie M'Leod of Dunvegan, Knight. GOD send good rest! Rorie is the contraction of Roderick. He was called Rorie More, that is, great Rorie, not from his size, but from his spirit. Our entertainment here was in so elegant a style, and reminded my fellow-traveller so much of England, that he became quite joyous. Dr.
She took possession of Rorie at once, treating him with a calm superiority, as if he had been a younger brother. "Tell me all about Switzerland," she said, as they sat side by side on one of the amber ottomans. "What was it that you liked best?" "The climbing, of course," he answered. "But which of all the landscapes? What struck you most? What impressed you most vividly?
He was standing up behind the parapet, his head thrown back and the bottle to his mouth. As he put it down, he saw and recognised us with a toss of one hand fleeringly above his head. "Has he been drinking?" shouted I to Rorie. "He will aye be drunk when the wind blaws," returned Rorie in the same high key, and it was all that I could do to hear him. "Then was he so in February?" I inquired.
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