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"That's not answering my question," retorted Florimel. "Weel, the second thing I wad du," said Malcolm, thoughtfully, and pausing a moment, "wad be to get Mr Graham to gang wi' me to Ebberdeen, an' cairry me throu' the classes there. Of coorse, I wadna try for prizes; that wadna be fair to them 'at cudna affoord a tutor at their lodgin's."
"We are anxious to have a walk before the weather changes, if possible, but we shall be out for luncheon and in for dinner, and Mrs. M'Collop may give us anything she pleases. Do you know where Miss Francesca is?" "I cudna s " "Certainly, of course you couldn't; but I wonder if Mrs. M'Collop saw her?" Mrs.
We naturally wish to identify all the national dishes; so, "Is this cockle soup, Susanna?" I ask her, as she passes me the plate at dinner. "I cudna say." "This vegetable is new to me, Susanna; is it perhaps sea-kale?" "I canna say, mam."
I believe Kirsty came pretty near knowing, but even she was not always sure where wilful oddity and where misapprehension was at the root of a remark. 'Gien ye set yer fit upon a hole, said Kirsty, 'what can the puir thing du but gang doon intil 't? Ye maunna be oonrizzonable wi' the craturs, Steenie! Ye maun be fair til them. 'But there was nae hole! returned Steenie. 'There cudna hae been.
And yet whiles i' the nicht, although I'm sure I didna sleep a wink, I thocht I was fumblin' awa' at the lock o' the press an' cudna get it opened. And the press was a coffin set up upo' its en', an' I kent that there was a corp inside it, and yet I tried sair to open't.
Malcolm told her all the story, rousing thereby a mighty indignation in her bosom, a great fire in her hawk nose, and a succession of wild flashes in her hawk eyes; but when he showed her his hand, "Lord, Malcolm!" she cried; "it's a mercy I was made wantin' feelin's, or I cudna hae bed the sicht. My puir bairn!" Then she rushed to the stair and shouted, "Jean, ye limmer! Jean!
"A' said she cudna be cured, and it wes true, for there's juist ae man in the land fit for't, and they micht as weel try tae get the mune oot o' heaven. Sae a' said naethin' tae vex Tammas's hert, for it's heavy eneuch withoot regrets.
I cudna move or say a word, though I felt my hair rising on my heed; but at lang-last I gev a yelloch, and say I, 'La! what is that? And he himsel' looked round on me, like the devil he is; and, wi' a skirl o' a laugh, he strikes the lantern out o' my hand. When I cum to myself we were outside the coach-house door.
"Weel, ye see, Tibbie," answered Thomas, "it's nearhan' as ill for the like o' us to unnerstan' your blin'ness as it may be for you to unnerstan' oor sicht." "Deed maybe neyther o' 's kens muckle aboot oor ain gift either o' sicht or blin'ness. Say onything ye like, gin ye dinna tell me, as the bairn here ance did, that I cudna ken what the licht was.
'To hear ye, mother, a body wud think I cudna ride! 'Forbid it, bairn! Yer father says, man or wuman, there's no ane i' the countryside like ye upo' beast-back. 'They tak to me, the craturs! It was themsels learnt me to ride! answered Kirsty, as she took a riding whip from the wall, and went out of the kitchen. The mare looked round when she entered the stable, and whinnied.
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