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"Ay, man, and it would be all right if the bit dog would just tak' to me." This pleasantry annoyed a good man who had small sense of humor, and he remarked testily "The barkin' disturbs my customers so they canna read." The place was a resort for student laddies who had to be saving of candles. "That's no' right," the landlord admitted, sympathetically.
'They say that minister's a great one for the music. One of them sort as is that musical he canna play. There'll be a tea. 'Eh! said Hazel, 'it'll be grand to be in a gentleman's house agen! 'When've you bin in a gentleman's house? Hazel was taken aback. 'Yesterday! she flashed. 'If Albert inna a gent I dunno who is, for he's got a watch-chain brass-mockin'-gold all across his wescoat.
Who can look on 't, sir, and fairly tell a man 'tis not a muddle? 'Of course, said Mr. Bounderby. 'I donno, sir. I canna be expecten to 't. 'Tis not me as should be looken to for that, sir. 'Tis them as is put ower me, and ower aw the rest of us. What do they tak upon themseln, sir, if not to do't? 'I'll tell you something towards it, at any rate, returned Mr. Bounderby.
Maybe ye micht put a verse o' Scripter aneath't, ye ken." "What verse would you like?" He thought for a little. "Isna there a text that says, 'The deid shall hear his voice'?" "Yes: 'The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God." "Ay. That's it. Weel, jist put that on. They canna do better than hear his voice," he added, with a strange mixture of Scotch ratiocination.
It was still light enough to see the little creature on the snowy mound and, indeed, Bobby got up and wagged his tail in friendly greeting. At that all the bluster went out of the man, and he began to argue the matter with the dog. "Come awa', Bobby. Ye canna be leevin' i' the kirkyaird." Bobby was of a different opinion.
One red-headed, red-nosed individual had apparently resented parting with the drink that he had paid for; as in one decidedly-shaky elevated hand he still clutched his glass, its whiskey and water contents slopping down the neck of his nearest unfortunate neighbour. "Mon!" he apologized, in tearful accents, "Ah juist canna help it!" "Pitch up!" the "bad man" was shrieking, "Pitch up! yu' s!
The only thing that puzzles me is the man that Ericson saw lying in the captain's room." "Maybe he went aboard in Iceland, Peter a passenger," suggested Flett. "Ye canna tell." "Ay, that'll just be it," mused Peter, "a passenger, no doubt. Ay, I well believe that will just be what he was." Lieutenant Fox at this point moved away from the circle to get a light for his pipe at the stove.
While she was kneeling on the floor and putting on the beauty's boots she said: "I think some of these men might have the modesty to turn their backs, if they canna leave the room. Ah, my poor dear! now you remind me of my own countrywoman, poor Queen Mary Stuart, when she complained on the scaffold of having to undress before so many men! Now you have to dress before so many."
The minister met me next day when I was a' blue and yellow, and, says he, 'John Laverlaw, what have ye been daein'? Ye're a bonny sicht for Christian een. How do ye think a face like yours will look between a pair o' wings in the next warld? I ken I'm no bonny," added the explanatory Jock; "but ye canna expect a man to thole siccan language as that."
"No, Kirstie, I canna promise ye that," he replied. "I have promised enough, God kens!" "May the blessing of God lift and rest upon ye, dear!" she said. "God bless ye, my old friend," said he. It was late in the afternoon when Archie drew near by the hill path to the Praying Weaver's Stone. The Hags were in shadow.
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