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"When we were about to depart for the chapel, the auld leddy rose to gie us her blessing, and placed Jeannie's hand within mine. "'Dearsake, ma'am! said I, for I was out o' a' patience, 'we'll do very weel wi' what we've heard just now, and ye can say onything ye like when we come back.
"I shall ask ye to meet me before ye dare," said the stranger; and leaving the coin upon the table as he left the house, "the gowd," added he, "will buy a gown and a bodice for the bosom of bonny Janet." "I insist, sir, that you tak back the siller," cried Andrew. "Dearsake, Andrew," said old Nancy, "he's no offering it to you! It's no you that has ony richt to refuse it."
It was a dreadful sound to arouse a man from his sleep in our peaceful land. "Robie!" cried I to my son, "rise, my man, rise, and run down to the town, and see what is the matter, that they are beating the alarm drum at this time of night. I fear that" "Oh, dearsake, Roger!" cried Agnes, grasping my arm, "what do ye fear?" "That that there's a fire in the town," said I.
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