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"My means, alas! are only worth the black coat I wear; but I am young I owe much to the family Can I do nothing?" "Ye can help to collect evidence, sir," said Saddletree; "if we could but find ony ane to say she had gien the least hint o' her condition, she wad be brought aft wi' a wat finger Mr. Crossmyloof tell'd me sae.
Sae I was thinking but deil hae me, that I should say sae," continued he, checking himself, "if I can bring mysell to ask a favour of ane that winna sae muckle as ware a word on me, to tell me if he hears me speaking till him." "Say what thou wilt do what thou wilt," answered the Dwarf from his cabin, "but begone, and leave me at peace."
We may be allowed to imagine that the Queen and her ladies came out to meet them, as the first sight which James appears to have had of his future bride was while she was "ryding in ane chariot, because she was sickly, and might not ryd upon hors."
I ha'e among my books a collection o' sermons by different divines, an' I am verra willin' to tak' my turn in the readin' o' ane, an' I'm sure you should a' be agreeable to do the same." His proposal met with the hearty approval of all his neighbours, and for some years each Sabbath afternoon saw most of the neighbours collected together for the best mode of worship within their reach.
When the rude mob, with their shouts and cries, had turned their backs, the imprisoned authorities were able to break out and take shelter in the empty Tolbooth; but when the crowd surged up again, finding the gates closed at the Nether Bow, into the High Street, a scuffle arose, a new "Clear the Causeway," though the defenders of order kept within the walls of the Tolbooth, and thence shot at the rioters, who returned their fire with hagbuts and stones from three in the afternoon till eight o'clock in the evening, "and never ane man of the town stirred to defend their provost and baillies."
The limmer says they're better able to afford ane than we are." While Mrs. Callender was thus expressing the particular sentiments which occupied her mind at the moment, John Anderson had turned round to resent the liberty which the former had taken of collaring him; and this resentment he expressed by collaring his assailant in turn.
"Great distress, I fear, Edie," answered Miss Wardour; "but I am surprised it is already so public." "Public! Sweepclean, the messenger, will be there the day wi' a' his tackle. I ken it frae ane o' his concurrents, as they ca' them, that's warned to meet him; and they'll be about their wark belyve; whare they clip, there needs nae kame they shear close eneugh."
Lockhard," replied Caleb, "ye must consider there has been a change of hands, and the auld lord might expect twa turns frae them, when the new-comer canna get ane. A dour and fractious set they were, thae tenants of Ravenswood, and ill to live wi' when they dinna ken their master; and if your master put them mad ance, the whole country will not put them down." "Troth," said Mr.
"She's jist like ane o' oorsel's," whispered Annie to her husband on the first opportunity, "only a hantle better an' bonnier." They took the nearest way to the harbor through the town and Lady Clementina and Blue Peter kept up a constant talk as they went.
Ye see, I maun mak mysel' a friend to the folk first, before I can do them gude I maun get to the heart o' their troubles an' troubles are plentiful in that quarter, I maun live among them, an' be ane o' them. I wad mind ye that Christ Himsel' gave sympathy to begin with, he did the preachin' afterwards."
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