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"Ye're in better spirits than I am," said Edie, addressing the bird, "for I can neither whistle nor sing for thinking o' the bonny burnsides and green shaws that I should hae been dandering beside in weather like this.
'But, 'deed, I got my information aboot the feet o' fowk frae naegate i' this warl'! The bonny man himsel sent word aboot them.
Splendid bracelets were on her arms, and one row of large white pearls encircled her throat. She looked like a queen, and Phyllis wished Richard could have seen her. "She'll be a varry proper mistress o' Hallam-Croft," thought the squire, with a passing sigh. But his eyes dwelt with delight upon Phyllis. "Eh!" he said, "but thou art a bonny lass!
Well, but your business, my bonny woman time and tide, you know, wait for no one." "Your honour I beg your Lordship's pardon I mean your Grace," for it must be noticed, that this matter of addressing the Duke by his appropriate title had been anxiously inculcated upon Jeanie by her friend Mrs.
On one side was a beautiful Queen mated with James VI, a pedant and a clown. On the other side were, first the Bonny Earl, then the Earl of Gowrie, both young, brave, handsome, both suddenly slain by the King’s friends: none knew why.
"My conscience!" exclaimed Andrew, "am I in existence! do I dream, or what? O Jenny, woman! O your Majesty! what shall I say?" "Nothing," replied the monarch, "but the king cam' in the cadger's way and Sir Andrew Gut-thrie and his bonny bride shall be provided for."
The caretaker and his wifie always came around the kirk on pleasant mornings to see the bonny sight of the gay soldiers going to church. To wee Bobby these good, comfortable, everyday friends of his must have seemed strange in their black garments and their serious Sunday faces. And, ah! the Sabbath must, indeed, have been a dull day to the little dog.
"Would you like to have your fortune told, my bonny sir?" she queried in a shrill voice. "I bring absent ones together, tell you how to gain the love of the one you want " "You do, eh?" cut in Jasper Wilde, sharply.
"Say my lady. That's how people speak to me." That'll be hoo ye're so terrible bonny," he returned, with some tremulousness in his tone. "But ye maun put on yer hose, my leddy, or ye'll get yer feet cauld, and that's no guid for the likes o' you." The form of address she prescribed, conveyed to him no definite idea of rank.
I will give her thanks as if she bid me stay with her a week. Now the stately Katharine entered, and Petruchio first addressed her with 'Good morrow, Kate, for that is your name, I hear. Katharine, not liking this plain salutation, said disdainfully: 'They call me Katharine who do speak to me. 'You lie, replied the lover; 'for you are called plain Kate, and bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the Shrew: but, Kate, you are the prettiest Kate in Christendom, and therefore, Kate, hearing your mildness praised in every town, I am come to woo you for my wife.
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