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No, not had she been your are countrywoman, and of your are clan and all for the same reasons that make some neglect and look down upon her because Clara is not meikle rich, and is far away from her ane ane friends. Gude Lady Frances Somerset! Clara Hope luves you in her heart, and she's as blythe wi' the thought o' ganging to see you as if she were going to dear Inverary."
There's mair Sabays than Tullochs; for there's Ane for them that counts far beyont an' above a' that can be against them. Now, thou step aff my honest hearthstane there is mair room for thee without than within."
A man hath no more good then he hath good of. A fool may give a wise man a counsell. A man may speir the gate to Rome. As long fives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can. All wald have all, all wald forgive. Ane may lead a Horse to the water, but four and twenty cannot gar him drink. A bleat Cat makes a proud Mouse. An ill-willy Cow should have short horns.
"O, my dear Miss Edith," said her attendant, "these are not days to ask what's right or what's wrang; if he were as innocent as the new-born infant, they would find some way of making him guilty, if they liked; but Tam Halliday says it will touch his life, for he has been resetting ane o' the Fife gentlemen that killed that auld carle of an Archbishop."
Lovel wadna look at it, and bought ane might serve the Master o' Morphie they keep it at the Graeme's Arms, ower the street; and he rode out yesterday morning and this morning before breakfast But winna ye walk up to his room?" "Presently, presently. But has he no visitors?" "O dear, Mr.
George, too, is so disgusted with the usage we have received, that he speaks of going off to America. And Nancy Black poor lassie! my heart is aye sair when I think about her they've had a likin for ane anither since they were bairns at the school, and, if things had gane richt, they might been happy, and we might been comfortable; but that, like the rest of our prospects, is at an end." Mrs.
He hes bene fourtene feet of hycht with square membris effering thairto VI zeris," continues he, "afore the cumyng of this werk to lycht we saw his hanche-bane, als mekill as the hail bane of ane man, lor we schot our arme in the mouth thairof. Be quhilk apperis how strang and square pepill grew in our regioun afore they were effeminat with lust and intemperance of mouth." Thirdly, by Ireland.
Or do you, Mr Rashleigh, think men will trust their lives and fortunes wi' ane, that, when in point of trust and in point of confidence wi' a great political interest, gangs about brawling like a drunken gillie? Nay, never look gash or grim at me, man if ye're angry, ye ken how to turn the buckle o' your belt behind you."
"But the well at the Abbey did no one feel a desire to enrich himself with the gold and silver buried there?" "Hoot, ay; mony a ane tried to find out whaur it was, and, for that matter, I've may be done as foolish a thing myself; but nane ever made it out. There was a scholar, like yoursel', that gaed ae night down to the Abbey, an', ye see, he summoned up the deil." "The deuce he did!" said I.
She drew back, sat down again to the stocking she was knitting for Steenie, and left her lover to mount and ride, which he did without another word. 'There's mair nor ae kin' o' idiot, she said to herself, 'and Steenie's no the kin' that oucht to be ca'd ane. There's mair in Steenie nor in sax Francie Gordons!
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