But Father, said Jenny, "if they come to lounder ilk ither as they did last time, suld na I cry on you?”

Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more bird-like sounds, but that was all.

This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.

a feverish desire to see her again