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But the nephew was aye a bit fine callant; only, ye ken, wi' my bairn's prospects, it wasna my part to encourage onything." Eagerly did the stranger, who gave his name as Colonel Morton, hang over the fair being who had conjured up the sunshine of his youth.
Grisell, scarce knowing where to go, could only allow herself to be led away by Ridley, who, seeing her tears, tried to comfort her in his rough way. "'Tis the petted bairn's way, you see, mistress and my lady has no thought save for him. He will get over it soon enough when he learns your gentle convent-bred conditions."
For I knew the counter for her moods, which was to be of the same, only stronger. "Well, she has two children, and when the second, a boy, was born, she claimed another five hundred pounds from her father to stock a farm for him the old man called it 'a bonny bairn-clout' for our Lottie's Duncan!" "What did you say the bairn's name was?" "Duncan after you!"
Gentle or semple shall not darken my door the day my bairn's been carried out a corpse." While she spoke thus, indulging the natural irritability of disposition and profession, which began to mingle itself with her grief when its first uncontrolled bursts were gone by, she held the door about one-third part open, and placed herself in the gap, as if to render the visitor's entrance impossible.
"MacLachlan himself never thought I was in the woman's confidence, and I've seen him in Carlunnan there since I came home, pretending more than a cousin's regard for the Provost's daughter so that he might share in the bairn's fondling. He did it so well, too, that the lady herself would talk of its fatherless state with tears in her eyes."
When he got back he had been bidden to barsel again, and when the Bear wanted to know the bairn's name, he answered: 'Licked-to-the-bottom.
"No, then; why should it be?" "Because I hear the church bells ringing so." "Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn's sick. Come wi' me, and I'll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner, I'd put thee in my own bed, for the Lord's sake. But come along here." But when Tom tried to get up, he was so tired and giddy that she had to help him and lead him.
Upon one occasion, in reply to some of his self upbraidings, she said, "I think, Robert, you're owre hard on yoursel' now, when ye tak the blame o' puir Susie's death; ye surely canna think itherwise than the dear bairn's time had come; an' had we bided at hame it would ha' been a' the same; for we dinna leeve an' dee by chance, and the bounds o' our lives are set by Him who kens a' things."
In that moment she lost the sprightliness I loved the more because I had none of it myself, and the bloom went from her face never to return. "'He has come back, she said. "I told her what I had seen, and while I spoke she put on her bonnet, and I exulted, thinking and then she took off her bonnet, and I knew she would not go away with me. "'Margaret, I cried, 'I am that bairn's father.
'Ay, says she, wi' a deevilich kin' o' a lauch, like in spite o' hersel', 'for the bairn's deid, they tell me as bonny a ladbairn as ye wad see, jist ooncoamon! An' whaur div ye think she had her doon lying? Jist at Lossie Hoose! Wi' that she was oot at the door wi' a swag o' her tail, an' doon the stair to Jean again.
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