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"I'm thinkin' ye'll fin' the puir lassie whaur I left her," remarked Malcolm. "I doobt she daured na gang hame." That night it was all over the town, that Lizzy Findlay was in a woman's worst trouble, and that Malcolm was the cause of it. Annie Mair had a brother, a carpenter, who, following her to Scaurnose, had there rented a small building next door to her cottage, and made of it a workshop.
But I am not so sure about it now." "Tak ye nae thoucht anent it, Cosmo, my bairn," said the old woman, taking up the word; "it's no a hair ayont what he deserved 'at daured put sic a word to the best man in a' the country. By the han' o' a babe, as he did Goliah o' Gath, heth the Lord rebuked the enemy. The Lord himsel' 's upo' your side, laird, to gie ye siccan a brave son."
"Some wad be gien they daured!" faltered Elspeth. "Was ye content wi' my getherin' to ye to your scythe, I mean, laird?" "Wha could hae been ither, Miss Elsie? Try 'at I wad, I couldna lea' ye ahin' me." "Did ye want to lea' me ahin' ye?" rejoined Elsie, with a sidelong look and a blush, which Cosmo never saw. "I wadna seek a better to gether til. But maybe ye dinna like my han's!"
"Lassie," he whispered, and his voice was infinitely soft, "it's lang sin' I've daured look at ye. But it's no that ye're forgotten, dearie." Then he covered his eyes with his hand as though he were blinded. "Dinna look at me sae, lass!" he cried, and fell on his knees, kissing the picture, hugging it to him and sobbing passionately.
I never said I wad wed you, and I dinna believe I ever sall say it. Think shame o' yoursel' for speaking o' marrying before the tide has washed the footmarks o' the dead off the sea sands. Let go my hand, Angus." "It is my hand, and I'll claim it as long as you live. And it will be ill for any ither body that daurs to touch it." "Daurs indeed! I'll no be daured by any body, manfolk or womanfolk.
Gien ever ye get a scart o' 's pen, it'll surprise me. But gien ever ye hae the chance, which may God forbid, tell him I said I had gien him his licks, and daured him to come and deny't to my face. He winna du that, Phemy! He kens ower weel I wad jist gie him them again! 'He wud kill ye, Kirsty! You gie him his licks! 'He micht kill me, but he'd hae a pairt o' his licks first!
Maggie and Angus stood on one side of them, Allan on the other. He was as yet unseen, but half-a-dozen steps would bring them together. Maggie was by this time in a passion. "It is weel for you, Angus Raith, that my fayther is at the bottom o' the sea," she said. "If Will was alive, or John, or Sandy, this day, ye hadna daured to open your ill mouth to me."
And under this conviction I got up and covered the glass, in which I felt sure I should presently "see sic sights as I daured na tell."
Tell Jock he'll not have to bother with my car!" he said, coming to her where she waited at the door. She had picked up the slip of paper which he had dropped in his haste to attend to the telephone. "I daured to peep at yer bit poem, Stewart, so that my ear might not seem to be put to o'erhearing your business discourse," she apologized, stanch in her adherence to the rules of the Morrisons.
"If you ask my will," he replied, with some pomposity, for who that has just gained an object of ambition can be humble? "it is that you shut up this whisky shop, and betake yourself to a more decent way of life in my parish." "Alloo me to tell ye, sir, ye're the first 'at ever daured threep my hoose was no a dacent ane." "I said nothing about your house.
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