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The moose gave a snort, and a wild leap in the water, and galloped away under the bank, the way he had come. Mac and I both fired at his vanishing ears and horns, but of course " "All aboooard!" The conductor's shout rang along the platform. "Line's clear," exclaimed McLeod, rising. "Noo we'll be off! Wull ye stay here wi' me, or gang awa' back to yer bed?"
Awa with him, Geordie, pay him, plack and bawbee, out of our monies in your hands, and let them care that come ahint." Richie, who had counted with the utmost certainty upon the success of this master-stroke of policy, was like an architect whose whole scaffolding at once gives way under him. He caught, however, at what he thought might break his fall.
The constables hae been here, woman, and they met wi' my minnie at the door, and they whirl'd her awa to the Justice's about the man's wheat. Dear! thae English churls think as muckle about a blade of wheat or grass, as a Scotch laird does about his maukins and his muir-poots.
Is that a licht?" "It'll be in Nanny Webster's," Hendry said, after they had all regarded the light. "I never heard that Nanny needed a candle to licht her to her bed," the precentor muttered. "She was awa to meet Sanders the day as he came out o' the Tilliedrum gaol," Spens remembered, "and I daresay the licht means they're hame again."
But we are going to Aberdeen to-morrow, for a fortnight, and we have invited your intended to come with us. She 'Christina! But she canna gang awa' to Aberdeen when He stopped short, at a loss. He had an appointment with Christina for the following evening. Surely 'I arranged with Miss Tod this morning. Christina will be writing to you, I presume. 'She she's gaun wi' ye?
Callum told him also, tat his leather dorlach wi' the lock on her was come frae Doune, and she was awa again in the wain wi' Vich Ian Vohr's walise. By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended. He thought upon the mysterious packet of the maid of the cavern, which seemed always to escape him when within his very grasp.
There were crusts an' bones behind the pictures standin' against the wa' that the rats an' mice had been gnawin' there, an' there were bottles on a shelf, old an' empty an' covered wi' cobwebs an' dust, an' the floor was so thick wi' dirt it had to be scrapit, an' what wi' old papers an' rags I had a great basket full taken awa let be a bundle o' shirts that needed mendin'. I took the shirts to the hotel, an' there I mended them until they were guid enough to wear, an' sent them back.
"Ay, ay," the new-comer would say, by way of responding to the sober salutation, "Ay, Johnny." Then there was silence, but for the "gluck" with which we lifted our feet from the slush. "So Little Rathie's been ta'en awa'," Johnny would venture to say by and by. "He's gone, Johnny; ay, man, he is so." "Death must come to all," some one would waken up to murmur.
G., who had not before made a remark, suddenly said, "sic a wee body as you should never attemp' to gang awa' her lane through the bush without a bell hanged aboot her neck to let people ken where to find her in case she should gang off the richt road."
"Weel, Captain Ogilvy, they just have; gone to the bottom, I might a'most say. I've come to tell ye that the fact is, that the press-gang have catched us at last, and ta'en awa' my mate, Jock Swankie, better kenn'd as Big Swankie."
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