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I was there like a wandering spirit, for I longed to see that wood or we left the country. I saved the bairn's life, and sair, sair I prigged and prayed they would leave him wi' me. But they bore him away, and he's been lang ower the sea, and now he's come for his ain, and what should withstand him?
'Ay, that we will washed spotless, and pure, and clean, and dressed i' the weddin' garment, and set doon at the table wi' him and wi' his Father. That's them 'at believes in him, ye ken. 'Of coorse, grannie. 'What's i' the bairn's heid noo? Troth, ye're no blate, meddlin' wi' sic subjecks, laddie! 'I didna want to say onything to vex ye, grannie. I s' gang on wi' the chapter.
"Weel," she replied at length, with no little honesty, " I mayna be sae ill 's he thinks me, for he had aye his puir father afore 's e'en; but the bairn's richt i' the main, an' we maun luik till't, an' see what can be dune; for eh! I wad be laith to disappint the bonnie laad!
Butler, when he had again counted over the money, as if to assure himself that the notes were real, "there was never man in the world had a wife like mine a blessing seems to follow her." "Never," said Jeanie, "since the enchanted princess in the bairn's fairy tale, that kamed gold nobles out o' the tae side of her haffit locks, and Dutch dollars out o' the tother.
I was there like a wandering spirit, for I longed to see that wood or we left the country. I saved the bairn's life, and sair, sair I prigged and prayed they would leave him wi' me. But they bore him away, and he's been lang ower the sea, and now he's come for his ain, and what should withstand him?
My bairn's greitin, and I maun gang til 'im; it's seldom he cries oot!" The minister walked in at the open door of the kitchen, and met the eyes of the soutar expectant. "Ye're welcome, sir!" said MacLear, and returned his eyes to what he had for a moment interrupted. "I want you to make me a nice pair of boots, if you please," said the parson, as cheerily as he could.
I could afford my daughter nae sic sum, and especially no to be thrown awa on the like o' him. But Jeannie cam to me wi' the tears on her cheeks, and 'O David! says she, 'there's naething for it but partin' wi' a thousand pounds on the ae hand or our bairn's death and her shame on the ither! Oh! if a knife had been driven through my heart, it couldna pierced it like the word shame!
The gipsy lass was on her knees at the bedside. "Lady," she cries, and her face was finely aglow, "nae wonder ye grieved aboot the colour o' the bairn's hair. Are ye a' Dan mad?" Then when she saw the anger in the mother's eyes she cries "Ye'll maybe be in a mood to listen to the truth now." "I'm in a fine mood to have ye whipped from my doors, ye shameless . . ."
Here the poor maniac sung, in a low and wild tone, "My banes are buried in yon kirkyard Sae far ayont the sea, And it is but my blithesome ghaist That's speaking now to thee. "But after a', Jeanie, my woman, naebody kens weel wha's living and wha's dead or wha's gone to Fairyland there's another question. Whiles I think my puir bairn's dead ye ken very weel it's buried but that signifies naething.
Butler, when he had again counted over the money, as if to assure himself that the notes were real, "there was never man in the world had a wife like mine a blessing seems to follow her." "Never," said Jeanie, "since the enchanted princess in the bairn's fairy tale, that kamed gold nobles out o' the tae side of her haffit locks, and Dutch dollars out o' the tother.
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