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The malice of my foes has quite sequestered my resources. I lie, as you know, sir, on a trumped-up charge, of which I am as innocent as yourself. They dare not bring me to my trial, and in the meanwhile I am held naked in my prison. I could have wished it was your cousin I had met, or his brother Baith himself.
Saddletree, looking toward her husband; "there's whiles we lose patience in spite of baith book and Bible But ye are no gaun awa, and looking sae poorly ye'll stay and take some kale wi' us?" Mr. But the teacher declined all entreaty, and took his leave upon the spot. "There's something in a' this," said Mrs. Saddletree, looking after him as he walked up the street; "I wonder what makes Mr.
The silence was so imperative that John turned round, and saw his spouse standing with a half-dried dish in her hand. "Ma name is Rebecca," as she recovered her speech, "an' there 's nae ither wumman in the hoose, but a 'm judgin' ye werena speakin' tae me or" with awful severity "ye 've made a mistak', an' the suner it's pit richt the better for baith you an' me an' the manse o' Drumtochty.
Ae mither's milk slockened ye baith. The same arms cradled ye. I bade ye keep your lord safe wi' your body and your soul. And there ye daur to stand, skin-hale and bane unbroken, before your mither. Get hence ye are nae son o' Barbara MacKim. Let me never look on your face again, gin ye bringna back the pride o' the warld, the gladness o' the auld withered heart o' her ye ca' your mither!"
"Na, na, Robin," said the cautious burgher, "I seldom like to leave the Gorbals;* I have nae freedom to gang among your wild hills, Robin, and your kilted red-shanks it disna become my place, man." "The devil damn your place and you baith!" reiterated Campbell.
"She spirited hersel awa', the magerful crittur." "What! But I heard you say " "Ay, they had her aince, but they couldna keep her. It's like a witch story. They had her safe in the townhouse, and baith shirra and captain guarding her, and syne in a clink she wasna there.
Is 't ill o' me at I canna be sorry ony mair?" "Na, na," interposed the soutar: "whan the Lord wad lift the burden, it wad be baith senseless and thankless to grup at it! In His name lat it gang, lass!" "And noo," said Mr. Blatherwick, again taking up his probe, "ye hae but ae thing left to confess and that's wha's the father o' 'im!"
Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words 'in the dead-thraw! as if he could not comprehend their meaning, suffered the old man to drag him towards his horse. During the ride home he only said, 'Wife and bairn baith mother and son baith, sair, sair to abide!
"Rin ye awa doun to Melrose, Daniel," said he, "an' I'll awa up to Selkirk, an' inquire for him, an' bring him back. Yer faither has allowed passion to get the better o' him, an' to owercome baith the man an' the Christian." "Run, Daniel, run!" cried Mary eagerly. And the old man and his son went out in search of him. Their inquiries were fruitless.
And, indeed, my gudesire, of his ain accord, lang forswore baith the pipes and the brandy it was not even till the year was out, and the fatal day past, that he would so much as take the fiddle or drink usquebaugh or tippenny. Sir John made up his story about the jackanape as he liked himsell; and some believe till this day there was no more in the matter than the filching nature of the brute.
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