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"Aweel," said she, "I could sweer that's Liston Carnie's coat, a droukit wi' the rain;" then she looked again at it, and added, slowly, "if I did na ken he has his away wi' him at the piloting." And in another moment she was in her own house, leaving them all standing there half stupefied. Christie had indeed endeavored to speak, but her tongue had cloven to her mouth.
But one day Lady Barbara, being in a cousinly humor, expressed a wish to sail in his lordship's yacht, and this hint soon led to a party being organized, and a sort of picnic on the island of Inch Coombe; his lordship's cutter being the mode of conveyance to and from that spot. Now it happened on that very day Jean Carnie's marriage was celebrated on that very island by her relations and friends.
On this, Christie, looking carefully at all the others except Beeny, inquired with an air of simple curiosity: "Can onybody tell me wha Liston Carnie's drunken wife is speakin' till? no to ony decent lass, though. Na! ye ken she wad na hae th' impudence!" "Oh, ye ken fine I'm speakin' till yoursel'." Here the horns clashed together. "To me, woman?" Giest!" Beeny Liston.
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