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This was only for the time it takes to ask a question with the eyes, however, for Corp was looking very miserable. "I'm sweer to say it," he announced to Tommy and David, "but it has to be said. We canna keep her." Evidently something had happened, and Tommy rose to go to Grizel without even asking what it was. "Wait," David said, wrinkling his eyebrows, "till Corp tells us what he means by that.
"But, Jeanie, consider your word and plighted faith to me; and would you undertake such a journey without a man to protect you? and who should that protector be but your husband?" "You are kind and good, Reuben, and wad take me wi' a' my shame, I doubtna. But ye canna but own that this is no time to marry or be given in marriage. Na, if that suld ever be, it maun be in another and a better season.
"Ower late, Willie, ower late," sighed the exhausted woman, as she still lay in his arms. "But if all this should please my Will I canna use another name, though you are now a gentleman I will do even as you list, and that which has been by a cruel fate denied us here we may share in heaven." "And who shall witness this strange marriage?" said he.
Since I was condemned to seek a protector through the world, which is to me a wilderness, I may thank God that I have come by no worse." "And that is sae sensibly said," replied the king, "that, by my saul, I'll try whether I canna make him better. Kneel down, Richie somebody lend me a rapier yours, Mr.
"'Deed, Mistress Catanach," persisted Malcolm, "I canna say I like to hae my ain fish flung i' my face, nor yet to see ill-faured tykes rin awa' wi' 't afore my verra een." After the warning given him by Miss Horn, and the strange influence her presence had had on his grandfather, Malcolm preferred keeping up a negative quarrel with the woman.
During the war, of course, we were at their mercy they could get work any time they wanted it in a munitions plant ." And so on. These good ladies think that girls should work for whatever their mistresses are willing to pay. And yet I canna see why a girl should be a servant because some lady needs her. I canna see why a lassie hasna the richt to better herself if she can.
Few hae been brought farther ben, and ye grudge your son suld gie me a day's service in the field?" "Na, my leddy na, my leddy, it's no that," exclaimed Mause, greatly embarrassed, "but ane canna serve twa maisters; and, if the truth maun e'en come out, there's Ane abune whase commands I maun obey before your leddyship's.
I pet them on mibby to rin an errand or twa, till they get the set o' my fit, an' syne I can manish them to the kirk. But I canna sit wi' noo buits; they're that uneasy. I got a noo pair lest Fursday, an' tried them on on Sabbath mornin'. But na, na!
Then she stilled it, and Allan saw that the hand she laid upon it trembled violently. "You should gae hame, sir; and you should be as plain and trustful wi' your cousin, as you hae been wi' me. Tell the leddy just hoo you love her, and ask her to tak' you, even though you arena deserving o' her. Your fayther canna blame you if she willna be your wife.
Just for a minute, now and then, I have felt a little anxious, perhaps; but it is not at all because I think there is anything seriously wrong with Rosie, or indeed anything that will not do her good rather than harm. But oh, Janet! it is sad that we cannot keep all trouble away from those we love." "I canna agree with you, my dear.
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