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I will ensconce me behind the cairn, as behind a strong wall of defence." "He's but a coward body after a'," said Cuddie, who was himself by no means deficient in that sort of courage which consists in insensibility to danger; "he's but a daidling coward body. He'll never fill Rumbleberry's bonnet. Odd! Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
Each of these little valleys has a walk winding up to its recesses, rendered more easy by the labours of the poor during the late hard season, and one of which bears the name of Pattison's path, while the other had been kindly consecrated to my own memory, by the title of the Dominie's Daidling- bit.
"A lady," she added, "who came to you about the middle of last month." "Could yer leddyship condescend on her name?" Lady Lundie put a still stronger constraint on herself. "Silvester," she said, sharply. "Presairve us a'!" cried Mrs. Inchbare. "It will never be the same that cam' driftin' in by hersel' wi' a bit bag in her hand, and a husband left daidling an hour or mair on the road behind her?"
"The deil's in the daidling body," muttered Jeanie between her teeth; "wha wad hae thought o' his daikering out this length?"
Davie, my dear, I think we'll have to make a match of it if it was just to see the weans. And now," she went on, "there's no manner of service in your daidling here, for the young woman is from home, and it's my fear that the old woman is no suitable companion for your father's son.
The Presbyterian clergy generally made war on the belief, but one of them, as Mrs. Grant reports in her Essays, had an experience of his own. This good old pastor's 'daidling bit, or lounge, was his churchyard. In an October twilight, he saw two small lights rise from a spot unmarked by any stone or memorial.
I will ensconce me behind the cairn, as behind a strong wall of defence." "He's but a coward body after a'," said Cuddie, who was himself by no means deficient in that sort of courage which consists in insensibility to danger; "he's but a daidling coward body. He'll never fill Rumbleberry's bonnet. Odd! Rumbleberry fought and flyted like a fleeing dragon.
"The deil's in the daidling body," muttered Jeanie between her teeth; "wha wad hae thought o' his daikering out this length?"
Davie, my dear, I think we'll have to make a match of it if it was just to see the weans. And now," she went on, "there's no manner of service in your daidling here, for the young woman is from home, and it's my fear that the old woman is no suitable companion for your father's son.
He got no further. My grandmother swooped upon the names, as perhaps he expected. It was by no means the first time that, in order to draw off the hounds of his wife's wrath, he had skilfully drawn a red herring across the trail. "Shepstone Shepstone!" she cried, "a useless, daidling body! What was he ever good for in this world but to tie his neckcloth and twirl his cane?
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