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And how is he, and where is he?" Mrs. Dodd replied that he was on the seas, but expect "Then I wish him well off 'em, confound 'em oncannall! Halloa! why, this will be the little girl grown up int' a wumman while ye look round." "Yes, may good friend; and her mother's darling." "And she's a bonny lass, I can tell ye. But no freend to the Dockers, I see." "Ah!" said Mrs.
Ye see they're juist try in' the Scripture plan o' heapin' coals o' fire on yer head. "Here ye've been negleckin' the fouk in seeckness an' lettin' them dee afore their freends' eyes withoot a fecht, an' refusin' tae gang tae a puir wumman in her tribble, an' frichtenin' the bairns no, a'm no dune and scourgin' us wi' fees, and livin' yersel' on the fat o' the land.
It's a forlorn hope, a' 'at I'm fit for, Alec Forbes," returned Cupples sadly. This struck Alec so near his own grief that he could not reply with even seeming cheerfulness. He said nothing. Mr Cupples resumed. "I hae twa three words to say to you, Alec Forbes. Can ye believe in a man as weel's ye can in a wumman?" "I can believe in you, Mr Cupples. That I'll sweir till."
'But, Geordie, I remonstrated, 'he doesn't know anything of the doctrines. I don't believe he could give us "The Chief End of Man." 'An' wha's tae blame for that? said Geordie, with fine indignation. 'An' maybe you remember the prood Pharisee and the puir wumman that cam' creepin' in ahint the Maister.
She wes a fine wumman Mistress Stirton a weel-livin' wumman; this 'ill be a blend, a'm thinkin'." "She slippit aff sudden in the end; a'm judgin' it's frae the Muirtown grocer; but a body canna discreeminate on a day like this." Before the glasses are empty all idea of drinking is dissipated, and one has a vague impression that he is at church.
Me lauch, wi' ma cauld, empty hame! "Yir the only man kens, Weelum, that I aince luved the noblest wumman in the glen or onywhere, an' a' luve her still, but wi' anither luve noo. "She had given her heart tae anither, or a've thocht a' micht hae won her, though nae man be worthy o' sic a gift.
The silence was so imperative that John turned round, and saw his spouse standing with a half-dried dish in her hand. "Ma name is Rebecca," as she recovered her speech, "an' there 's nae ither wumman in the hoose, but a 'm judgin' ye werena speakin' tae me or" with awful severity "ye 've made a mistak', an' the suner it's pit richt the better for baith you an' me an' the manse o' Drumtochty.
She held her head high and walked like a queen, till a turn of the water hid her. "It's a wumman," gasped the smaller boy. "And she's terrible bonny," commented the more critical brother. Then the two fell again to the quest of the great trout. Meanwhile the girl pursued her way till she came to a fall where the bank needed warier climbing.
Shure, there's no likeness between anny two of them; it's as if they was gathered from ivry corner of the wide wurruld. There's a Mongolian in the kitchen an' slitherin' about outside, doin' the things that's part for man and part for wumman. Li Choo they call him. Isn't his the face of a bald-headed baboon? An' the half-breed crature she might ha' come from Patagony.
Nae man can prophecee hoo it 'ill end, but ae thing is certain, a'll no see deith tak a Drumtochty man afore his time if a' can help it. "Noo, Bell ma wumman, yir near deid wi' tire, an' nae wonder.
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