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"I canna unnerstan' ye, Mr Cupples. Sin ever I kent ye i' this library, I never kent ye bide the oncome o' the nicht. As sune's the gloamin' began to fa', ye aye flew to yer hat, and oot at the door as gin there had been a ghaist gettin' its banes thegither oot o' the dark to come at ye." "Maybe sae there was, bantam. Sae nane o' your jokin'." "I didna mean to anger ye, Mr Cupples."
"Lord, mem! what hey I said to fess sic a fire flaucht oot o' yer bonny een? I thocht ye only did it 'cause ye wad' na like to luik shabby afore the lass no giein' onything to the lad 'at brocht ye yer ain an' lippened to me to unnerstan' 'at ye did it but for the luik o' the thing, as I say."
But ye see some of the boys hev got a noshin agin heven any more fellers sole aout fer debt, an we've been a explainin our idee to Iry this mornin. I callate he's got it through his head, Iry hez. Ye see ef neighbors be gonter live together peaceable they've jess got ter unnerstan each other. What do yew s'pose Iry said? He said Squire thar tole him to sell David aout.
"Ye're right, Parson, ye're surely right," and Mrs. Stickles stopped to count her stitches. "Wasn't John an' me talkin' about that only last night. I was readin' the Bible to 'im, an' had come to that story about poor old Samson, an' his hard luck." "'It's very strange, sez John, sez he to me, 'that when Samson lost his hair he lost his great strength, too. I can't unnerstan' it nohow."
Can' tell anybody 'cep Major." "The Major will meet us at the Pizza, this evening," explained Brown. "Meanwhile, if you will do me the honour of dining with me " "Ve' kind. Pleasure, 'm'sure. Have li'l drink, Mr. Brown?" "Not here," murmured Brown. "I'm not in uniform, but I'm known." "Quite so. Unnerstan' perfec'ly. Won'do. No." "Had you thought of dressing for dinner?" inquired Mr.
An angry light leaped into Dupont's eyes. "You not unnerstan' my letters bah! You know it all right, so queeck." The other remained silent, staring into the fire with wide, searching eyes. Dupont put a hand on him. "You ketch my idee queeck. We mus' have more money from that Henderley certainlee. It is ten years, and he t'ink it is all right.
I never cud unnerstan' that." "Hoo ken ye that they warna hearkent till?" asked Alec. "Luik at me! Do ye ca' that hearkenin' till a prayer? Luik what she got me back for. Ca' ye that an answer to prayers like my auld mither's? Faith! I'll be forced to repent some day for her sake, though there sudna be anither woman atween Venus and Mars but wad rive wi' lauchin at a word frae Cosmo Cupples.
"I don' unnerstan'. What good's it goin' to do you to lock me up an' disgrace me? What harm have I done you? Who asked you to run the army, anyway? Who are you?" "My name is Standish," said the lieutenant. "My father was colonel of the Thirty-third when you first joined it from the Academy." Aintree exclaimed with surprise and enlightenment.
'That's a' verra weel, John, interposed Robert quietly; 'but there was ane thocht as muckle o' 't as ye do, an' wad hae been ashamed to hear ye speak that gait aboot yer ain dauchter. 'I dinna unnerstan' ye, returned Hewson, looking raised-like at him.
I sprang to my feet, but the place reeled roon', and I fell. It was the lauch that killed me. What for sud she lauch? And sic a ane as her that was no licht-heidit lassie, but cud read and unnerstan', wi the best? I suppose I had gane upo' my knees till her, and syne like the lave o' the celestials she tuik to her feathers and flew.
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