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As soon as we've cleared the background every ane o' the two junior classes is to mak' balls as hard as he can lick and bring them forward to the fighting line. "We'll divide the senior school into three divisions; Dunc will take thirty of ye and drive McIntyre frae the guns and along the terrace till ye turn them into Breadalbane Street.
I reminded them that they were speaking of Mr. Dishart. "We was saying," began the post briskly, "that " "It was me that was saying it," said Waster Lunny. "So, dominie " "Haud your gabs, baith o' you," interrupted Elspeth, "You've been roaring the story to ane another till you're hoarse." "In the forenoon," Waster Lunny went on determinedly, "Mr. Dishart preached on the riot, and fine he was.
As a Catholic, of the House of Lorraine, Mary could not but cleave to her faith and to the French alliance. In 1554 she had managed to oust from the Regency the Earl of Arran, the head of the all but royal Hamiltons, now gratified with the French title of Duc de Chatelherault. To crown her was as seemly a thing, says Knox, "if men had but eyes, as a saddle upon the back of ane unrewly kow."
"An ye please, sir, I'm no easy in my mind about me Laird; Vincent," said the turnkey. "Why, what ails me laird?" "Why, sir, he is joost like ane distraught!" "On, aye, it will be the confession o' the malefactor, Frisbie, that has fasht him; as weel it may!" "He's war nor fasht; he looks joost likely to do himsel' a mischief," said Christie, shaking his head.
Of the northern lands in summer, it may be said, as of the heaven of heavens, that there is no night there. And by and by the moon also would attend the steps of the returning children of labour. "Noo, lads an' lasses, afore we hae worship, rin, ilk ane o' ye," said the mother, "an' pu' heather to mak a bed to the wee man i' the neuk there, at the heid o' oors.
'Presbyterian! answered Gilfillan contemptuously; 'a wretched Erastian, or rather an obscure Prelatist, a favourer of the black indulgence, ane of thae dumb dogs that canna bark; they tell ower a clash o' terror and a clatter o' comfort in their sermons, without ony sense, or savour, or life. Ye've been fed in siccan a fauld, belike? 'No; I am of the Church of England, said Waverley.
Here and noo there's ane great trouble threatening us. The man who works isna satisfied. Nor is the man who pays him. I'll no speak of maister and man, for the day when that was true of employer and workman has gone for aye. They're partners the noo. They maun work together, produce together, for the common gude. We've seen strikes on a' sides, and in a' lands.
But faith! the sowl o' me was nearhan' gaein' out at this new ane i' my ain riggin. Gin it hadna been for the guidwife here, 'at cam' up, efter the clanjamfrie had taen themsel's aff, an' fand me lying upo' the hearthstane, I wad hae been deid or noo. Was my heid aneath the grate, guidwife?" "Na, nae freely that, Mr Cupples; but the blude o' 't was. And ye maun jist haud yer tongue, and lie still.
"Aye, now it is at hand," said the man who was clinging to the grating of the window. "The soldiers are marching on each side I see the prisoners; their hands are tied behind, ilk loaded wi' a goad of iron they are bareheaded ane twa three four five they are five fatherly-looking men."
Malcomson, let me advise you, as a friend, never to attempt to have the whole conversation to yourself; it I isn't daicent. "Weel, but the toast, man?" "Oh, ay; troth, your nonsense would put any thing out of a man's head. Well, you see this comfortable room?" "Ou, ay; an vara comfortable it is; ma faith, I wuss I had ane like it. The auld squire, however, talks o' buildin' a new gertlen-hoose."
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