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Take her for all in all, I shall not look upon her like again. "Now, if you'd a pair o' skylights athort your cutwater, you'd be set up for a professor of phrenology, or doxology, or any other ology," suggested Jack, with one oath, two unseemly expletives, and two obscenities. "How is that for high?"
"Dinna scorn the fish, mem," said Malcolm: "they're innocent craturs, an' dinna smell waur nor they can help; an' that's mair nor ye can say for ilka lord ye come athort." "Ay, or cadger aither," rejoined Miss Horn.
"The moment the priest's horse set fut upo' the drawbrig, the puir leddy gae anither ougsome cry, a hantle waur nor the first, an' up gat a suddent roar an' a blast o' win' that maist cairried the castel there aff o' the cliff intill the watter, an' syne cam a flash o' blue licht an' a rum'lin'. Efter that, a' was quaiet: it was a' ower afore the priest wan athort the coortyaird an' up the stair.
It's quite enough a man should deceive his own self, without another to come and help him." "To speak the truth is not to deceive," replied Mary. "I have some knowledge of music, and I say only what is true." "What good can it be spending his time scraping horsehair athort catgut?" "They must fancy some good in it up in heaven," said Mary, "or they wouldn't have so much of it there."
"Do ye think I hae naething ither to do than to grin' the grandur o' an auld haythen into spunemate for a young sinner like you?" "Ye dinna ken what I'm like, Mr Cupples," returned Alec, remembering his landlady's injunction not to be afraid of him. "Come athort the reek, and lat's luik at ye."
This was a daring step in the circumstances, when there was such exasperation in the Court, and when its councils were led by two such men as Lennox and Arran. 'News was sparpelet athort the cuntry that the ministers war all to be thair massacred. Melville was warned by a friendly courtier, his namesake Sir James Melville of Halhill, of the risk he ran in carrying out the Assembly's commission.
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