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Robert Falconer

CHAPTER VI
11/17

Ye winna get that in ilka hoose i' the toon.

It's my grannie's especial.' Robert felt relieved after this, for he had eaten all the cakes Miss Napier had given him, and had had a pain in his conscience ever since.
'Hoo got ye a haud o' 't ?' asked Shargar, evidently supposing he had stolen it.
'She gies me a bit noo and than.' 'And ye didna eat it yersel'?
Eh, Bob!' Shargar was somewhat overpowered at this fresh proof of Robert's friendship.

But Robert was still more ashamed of what he had not done.
He took the blue coat carefully from the bed, and hung it in its place again, satisfied now, from the way his grannie had spoken, or, rather, declined to speak, about it, that it had belonged to his father.
'Am I to rise ?' asked Shargar, not understanding the action.
'Na, na, lie still.

Ye'll be warm eneuch wantin' thae sovereigns.

I'll lat ye oot i' the mornin' afore grannie's up.


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