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They have a rich laugh, though it is not the gros rire of the Gaul tossing gros sel, nor the polished Frenchman's mentally digestive laugh. And if they have now, like a monarch with a troop of dwarfs, too many jesters kicking the dictionary about, to let them reflect that they are dull, occasionally, like the pensive monarch surprising himself with an idea of an idea of his own, they look so.
"She sighed deeply, for I saw that her heart craved after some word fra' him, but she said nae mair, but pale an' sorrowfu', the very ghaist o' her former sel', went back into the house. "From that hour she never breathed his name to ony of us; but we all ken'd that it was her love for him that was preying upon her life.
It wad but raise a strife atween the twa, ohn dune an atom o' guid. She wud only rage at the laddie, and pit him in sic a reid heat as wad but wald thegither him and his wull sae 'at they wud maist never come in twa again. And though ye gaed and tauld her yer ain sel, my leddy wad lay a' the wyte upo' you nane the less.
"Anybody'd 'a' done that, mither, such a lady as she is!" "What'll ye be doin' of her after I'm gone? The pirate father'll come a-claimin' of her." Jamie looked as if the pirate captain then might meet his match. "Jamie, my son have ye never thought o' marryin' her your own sel'? I'd like to see you with a wife before I go." There was no doubt that Jamie was blushing now.
There are innumerable rhymes as to the signification of numbers where magpies are concerned, but the most complete I have heard runs thus: "One's joy, two's grief, Three's marriage, four's death, Five's heaven, six is hell, Seven's the devil his own sel'."
'But thee, Theocritus, wha matches? you ask, and yourself out-match him in this wide rude region, trodden only by the rural Muse. 'Thy rural loves are nature's sel'; and the wooer of Jean Armour speaks more like a true shepherd than the elegant Daphnis of the 'Oaristys.
"Sel," said Clara, "on your word and honor, are your eyes shut perfectly tight?" "If they ain't, Miss Clara, then they never was." Sel never told a lie. We looked at each other, and let her go. I followed her out, and kept my eyes on her closed lids. She did not once raise them; nor did they tremble, as lids will tremble, if only partially closed.
But I had driven down from Edinburgh in all the starlike splendor of a lilac silk dress and French crape bonnet, and my dear fish-wife stared at me silently, with her mouth and gray eyes wide open; only for a moment, however, for in the next she joyfully exclaimed, "Ech, sirs! but it's yer ain sel come back again at last!"
He thinks now, it was just for your admiration o' his abilities, and your liking for his sel', that you sent him to Glasga' College. If he kent you thocht o' me, he wad be sure it was for my sake, and that wad jist tak' the good out o' everything for Davie." Thus, Maggie had reasoned, and Allan thought her reasoning both generous and prudent.
Winthrop and I talked the matter over often and gravely when we were alone and in quiet places. Mother's lips were sealed. From the day when Sel made the first disclosure, she was never heard once to refer to the matter. A perceptible haughtiness crept into her manner towards the girl. She even talked of dismissing her; but repented it, and melted into momentary gentleness.
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