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"But they would not be wearisome with love. With love in that valley it would smile like an Indian plain." "How do you ken?" said she, stopping suddenly at this. "It would make habitable and even pleasant," said he, "a dwelling where age and bitterness had their abode." "Faith, you're not so blate as I thought you!" she said, setting aside the last of her affected shy simplicity.
'Gin he was a loon, he wadna luik like a blate lass, ony gait, Betty. And there ye're wrang. 'Weel, weel, mem, hae 't yer ain gait, muttered Betty. 'I wull hae 't my ain gait, retorted her mistress, 'because it's the richt gait, Betty. An' noo ye maun jist gang up the stair, an' get the place cleant oot an' put in order. 'I wull do that, mem. 'Ay wull ye.
"Blate grazes I mean great blazes!" chuckled Rattleton, as he rubbed the war paint on his face. "Won't we make a bloodthirsty gang of roble ned men er, noble red men!" The boys aided each other, and Frank assisted them all. "Aren't you going to make up, Merry?" asked Bandy Robinson. "Not now. I am to be the decoy." "The decoy? What's in the wind, anyway?"
"The blundering fellows ne'er forget, About my trade to sport their fancies, As if, forsooth, I would look blate, At what my honour most advances. "Auld Homer sang for's daily bread; Surprising Shakspeare fin'd the wool; Great Virgil creels and baskets made; And famous Ben employed the trowel.
When Allan made wigs no longer, when all his occupations were about books, and everybody in Edinburgh, gentle and simple, knew him as the poet, he would be still more free to make his jokes and his compliments to all those fine people. But at no time was the genial little poet "blate," as he would himself have said. There was no shyness in him.
They will tell ye news o' your tutor and guardian, him that ye daur speak to me aboot committing the puir innocent bairns to what neither you nor a' the law in your black bag will ever tak' frae under the roof-tree o' Mary Lyon. Here, this way, lads dinna be blate! Step ben!" And so, without a shadow of blateness, there stepped "ben" Tom and Eben and Rob.
"That's not so blate, John Hielan'man!" said she again to herself. "And for yours too," she conceded, smiling. "When you find that I have taken it away from there you will know it is for your luck too." "And it will be at your breast then?" he cried eagerly. She laughed and blushed and laughed again, most sweetly and most merrily. "It will be at at at my heart," she said.
'Perhaps, said Mannering, 'at such a time a stranger's arrival might be inconvenient? 'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house is muckle eneugh, and decking time's aye canty time.
"How muckle? why, all." "A' the 'oo! ye blackguard, ye're no blate." "Keep your temper, farmer, it is not worth our while to shear sheep for less than that." "De'il go wi' ye then!" and he moved off in great dudgeon. "Stop," cried the captain, "you and I are acquainted you lived out Wellington way me and another wandered to your hut one day and you gave us our supper."
"Ye can du as yer lordship likes," answered Miss Horn, "but I wadna hae 't said o' me 'at I had ony dealin's wi' her. Wha kens but she micht say ye tried to bribe her? There's naething she wad bogle at gien she thoucht it worth her while. No 'at I 'm feart at her. Lat her lee! I'm no sae blate but Only dinna lippen till a word she says, my lord." The marquis hesitated.
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