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'Oh, yes, I do! returned Miss St. John, smiling, and Robert could not withstand the smile. 'Weel, tak care o' her, as ye wad o' yer ain sel', mem, he said, yielding. He was now much better, and before he had been two minutes in the open air, insisted that he was quite well. When they reached Captain Forsyth's garden he again held out his hands for his violin. 'No, no, said his new friend.
That Sel, asleep on the opposite side of the house, could not have seen it drop, was also settled. That she, with her eyes closed and her back to the window, had seen through three walls and through three inches of snow, at a distance of fifty feet, was an inference. "I don't believe it!" said my mother, "it's some nonsensical mistake." Clara looked a little pale, and I laughed.
An' there's whaur I fand mamma's box wi' the letter in 't and her ain picter: grannie gae me that ane o' you. An' there's whaur I used to kneel doon an' pray to God. An' he's heard my prayers, and grannie's prayers, and here ye are wi' me at last. Instead o' thinkin' aboot ye, I hae yer ain sel'. Come, father, I want to say a word o' thanks to God, for hearin' my prayer.
Another thought, over which he chuckled, sent him off to find the sergeant. The soldier was tramping gloomily about in the wet, to the demoralization of his beautiful boots. "Man, since a stormy nicht eight years ago last November I've aye been looking for a bigger weel meaning fule than my ain sel'. You're the man, so if you'll just shak' hands we'll say nae more about it."
When we came first, before Bantam, they came euery day in great companies into our shippes, and there set out their wares to sel, as silkes, sowing silkes, and porselines, so that our vpper deckes were full of pedlers, that wee could hardly walke vpon the hatches. The manner, condition, custome, going, standing, apparell, housekeeping, wares, and behauiour of the Iauars in Bantam.
You'll no lay the blame o' it to my office, but to Dugald Tallisker his ain sel'. There's a deal o' Dugald Tallisker in me yet, laird; and whiles he is o'er much for Dominie Tallisker." They were at the gate by this time, and Crawford held out his hand and said, "Come in, dominie." "No; I'll go hame, laird, and gie mysel' a talking to. Tell Mr. Selwyn I want to see him."
"As sure's we're baith alive," asseverated Malcolm, "I ken nae mair nor a sawtit herrin' what ye're drivin' at." "Tell me 'at ye dinna ken what a' the queentry kens an' hit aboot yer ain sel'!" screamed the Partaness. "I tell ye I ken naething; an' gien ye dinna tell me what ye're efter direckly, I s' haud awa' to Mistress Allison she 'll tell me." This was a threat sufficiently prevailing.
"If you please, me laird, they say they maun see yer lairdship's sel' and the leddy," said the old man. "What the blazes do they want with us? Was ever anything so insolently persistent? Go and tell the fellows that I cannot and will not see them to-night! And if they are disappointed it will serve them right for coming out on such a night as this, They must have been mad!" "Verra weel, me laird.
Auld Cuthbert wouldna bide here longer gin it wer' na for the luve o' the house; na mare would I. I must tell your leddyship about the visit of the poleece, whilk I understand were sent by your leddyship's ain sel'. They cam' the same day your leddyship left.
"Just mention the thing you want in one word; then you won't confuse garçon's intellect by flooding it with ideas." "Garçon sel," added Lynch, acting upon this excellent advice. The waiter brought the sel, and nobody was sold this time. "I think I shall pick up the French language in time," added Lynch, encouraged by his success.
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