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Ye 'ill lat me pay the half, bit by bit a' ken yir wullin' tae dae't a', but a' haena mony pleesures, an' a' wud like tae hae ma ain share in savin' Annie's life." Next morning a figure received Sir George on the Kildrummie platform, whom that famous surgeon took for a gillie, but who introduced himself as "MacLure of Drumtochty."
Ye 'ill lat me pay the half, bit by bit a' ken yir wullin' tae dae't a' but a' haena mony pleasures, an' a' wud like tae hae ma ain share in savin' Annie's life." Next morning a figure received Sir George on the Kildrummie platform, whom that famous surgeon took for a gillie, but who introduced himself as "MacLure of Drumtochty."
He took up the hammer, struck a stone, dropped the implement with an oath, and put both hands to his ears. 'Mercy on me! My heid's burstin'! he cried. He was a wild figure, about my own size but much bent, with a week's beard on his chin, and a pair of big horn spectacles. 'I canna dae't, he cried again. 'The Surveyor maun just report me. I'm for my bed.
But we're to dae't wi'oot loss o' life on oor ain part, if possible; ye'll therefore approach the place cannily and get as close up to it as maybe wi'oot bein' discovert; and, that done, ye'll be pleased tae keek roun' and ascertain if there's ony way o' gettin' intil it wi'oot haein' to stor-r-m it. If we can creep up and tak' the gairrison by surprise, sae muckle the better.
The sunlight of habitual benevolence began to break through the cloud of wrath upon the good minister's face. 'If I let you off, laddie, what will you do for me in return? An answering gleam of generosity broke upon the sage face of the child. 'I'll fair teach ye how to dae't ye'sel'. The lad grew apace.
Oh, Miss Gladys, excuse me for sayin't, but if ye had seen his face when I telt him ye were maybe to be mairried in September or October, ye wadna dae't. 'Why not? That could not possibly make any difference to me, Christina, replied Gladys quite coldly, though a slight tremor shook her. 'Well, I must go and change my gown. Bourhill is looking lovely to-day, I think.
"It's come," said the shepherd in a tone of fate, "and there's fifteen no ower yet, and Lord kens how they'll dae't. They'll hae to gang roond by Gledsmuir Brig, and that's twenty mile o' a differ. 'Deed, it's no like that Sandy Jamieson will get a guid price the morn for sic sair forfochen beasts."
'Ay, but naebody but a born fule will kill himsel' unless he's made dae't, was the reply. 'I wouldn't keep a man who didn't do a fair day's work for a fair day's wage, nor would you, said Walter. 'I believe that nobody would make more tyrannical masters than working men themselves, just as women who have been servants themselves make the most exacting mistresses.
Ye 'ill lat me pay the half, bit by bit a' ken yir wullin' tae dae't a' but a' haena mony pleasures, an' a' wud like tae hae ma ain share in savin' Annie's life." Next morning a figure received Sir George on the Kildrummie platform, whom that famous surgeon took for a gillie, but who introduced himself as "MacLure of Drumtochty."
'She can't think we will allow her to go back to Glasgow without knowing what she is going to do; we had too much anxiety on her account before, said Gladys, with decision. 'There is no doubt her brother's house is the place for her. I must talk to her myself. 'Dinna dae't the nicht, Miss Gladys, or she'll think I've been tellin' on her, suggested the little seamstress.
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