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But Violet could not trust herself to speak of Davie's trouble to him. She was too angry with his father; and, besides, she was too startled by Frank's pale looks to be able to think, for the moment, of any one but him. "Are you ill, Frank? Are your eyes worse? What have you been doing to them?" For Frank had dropped his head down on his hands again. "Yes, they are worse.
But now, Janet, canna ye gie us something for supper? 'Ou ay, sir, I'll brander the moor-fowl that John Heatherblutter brought in this morning; and ye see puir Davie's roasting the black hen's eggs. I daur say, Mr.
There was a bumping noise that came from the "Provision Room" that sounded ominous, and then a smothered sound of words, followed by a scuffling over the old floor. "Boys!" called Polly. No answer; everything was just as still as a mouse. "Joel and David!" called Polly again, in her loudest tones. "Yes," came up the crooked stairs, in Davie's voice.
Gavin Ogilvy limped heavily after his encounter with Thrummy Tosh a struggle that was looked forward to eagerly as a bi-yearly event; Chirsty Davie's development of muscle had not prevented her going down before the terrible onslaught of Joe the miller, and Lang Tammas's plasters told a tale.
'Do the verses he sings, asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine? 'I believe not, she replied. 'This poor creature had a brother, and Heaven, as if to compensate to the family Davie's deficiencies, had given him what the hamlet thought uncommon talents.
Feet scuffled overhead, and some one called down the hatch, "Eight bells, starbow-lines ahoy!" Davie's deep voice replied sonorously, "Ay-ay!" And one after another we climbed out on deck, where the wind from the sea blew cool on our faces.
He understood, however, that the danger was passed, and he went to sleep that night thanking God for the love that had stood so hard a trial and come out conqueror. The next day life took up its dreary tasks again, but in Davie's heart there was a strange presentiment of change, and it almost angered the poor, troubled, taxed wife to see him so thoughtlessly playing with the children.
His grandfather's discipline was strict, not to say severe, and Davie's resistance, or rather his unwilling submission and obedience, for he seldom resisted his grandfather's will, made her afraid.
So she rose and walked with her grandfather along the burnside, out of Davie's hearing, and then she answered brightly: "Ay, that I would, grandfather; not just now, ye ken, but after a while, when it can be done without going into debt. It would be grand. And I could sell twice as much butter as we make now, if we had it. I like butter-making."
When they returned to their country, both somewhat disabled, the one retired to his inherited estate, the other to the family farm upon that estate, where his brother had died shortly before; so that Archie was now Davie's landlord. But no new relation would ever destroy the friendship which school had made close, and war had welded.
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