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I fell over them myself the same night when I landed, on the Monday, going up to old Nanny's." "Who told you it was those cursed spikes? Well, well, so it was; but not on the Monday, Jack, it was on the Wednesday." "Nay, that cannot be; for on the Tuesday, as I went down to the beach, I saw them all fixed up in the stonework, and soldered in.
Thus pressed, she proceeded "Whether it was Nanny's intention to befriend me or not, I was thrust upon her, for a slow fever followed the chills and shivering that had seized me, and for seven long weeks I lay between life and death on Nanny's neat old bed.
"Nay, nay," replied Nanny, tartly, "I want no young mistress in my house." So much for the love of rule poor Nanny's house was a hole in a rock! Colonel Wildman, on taking possession of the Abbey, found Nanny Smith thus humbly nestled.
Nanny's dislike of the Countess extended to the innocent dog Jet, whom she 'couldn't a-bear to see made a fuss wi' like a Christian. An' the little ouzle must be washed, too, ivery Saturday, as if there wasn't children enoo to wash, wi'out washin' dogs. Now this particular morning it happened that Milly was quite too poorly to get up, and Mr.
It has always held me wondering, like my own Glen Quharity on a summer day, when the sun is lingering and the clouds are on the march, and the glen is never the same for two minutes, but always so beautiful as to make me sad. Never will I attempt to picture the Egyptian as she seemed to Gavin while she bent over Nanny's fire, never will I describe my glen.
I saw you leave Green Valley one summer night last year and I came from the West two months before I should have just to see if you got safely back at lilac time." At that Nanny's eyes lost all their careful pride and he saw them lovely with surprise. So he explained. "I was standing on the back platform of the Los Angeles Limited the night you went East with your father."
And when the star on the top, after a preliminary wink, went dark too, they turned and made their way slowly across the square to where their cutter, a hired driver in the seat, stood waiting. "Well, fellows," said Bruce, as with a jingle of bells the sleigh started in the direction of St. Cloud City, "I guess old Nanny's Christmas won't be such a sad one after all, thanks to Bud, here."
The lantern was swaying in her hand, and when she turned fearfully to him its light fell on his face, and she saw how alarmed he was. "I am going away back to Nanny's," she said suddenly, and rose cowed, but he took her hand and held her. "Babbie," he said, huskily, "tell me what has happened to bring you here at this hour." She sought to pull her hand from him, but could not.
"What business has he to befriend a woman that belongs to another denomination? I'll see to the bottom o' that this nicht. Lads, follow me to Nanny's, and dinna be surprised if we find baith the minister and the Egyptian there." They had not advanced many yards when Spens jumped to the side, crying, "Be wary, that's no the wind; it's a machine!"
Did Nanny think they knew where she was going? was a question they whispered to each other, and her suffering eyes cut scars on their hearts. So now that the hour had come they called their children into their houses and pulled down their blinds. "If you would like to see her by yourself," the doctor said eagerly to Gavin, as the horse drew up at Nanny's gate, "I'll wait with the horse.
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