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But whether it was made for man's devices or God's service, I have seen ower muckle sin done in it in my day, and far ower muckle have I been partaker of ay, even here in this dark cove. Mony a gudewife's been wondering what for the red cock didna craw her up in the morning, when he's been roasting, puir fallow, in this dark hole And, ohon! I wish that and the like o' that had been the warst o't!
Not at all, he assured her delicately, but she was maybe no quite so neatly dressed as she used to be, and her hair wasna braided back so smooth, and he didna think that bonnet quite set her. "Gavinia has been saying that to you!" "I noticed it mysel', Grizel; I'm a terrible noticher." "Perhaps you are right," she said, reflecting, after looking at herself for the first time for some days.
Didna I see thee, Elleen, clavering with that muckle Archduke that nane can talk with? 'Ay, said Eleanor. 'He is come here a-courting Madame Yolande, with his father's goodwill, for Alsace and Tyrol be his, mountains that might be in our ain Hielands, they tell me. 'Methougnt, said Eleanor, 'she scunnered from him, as Jeanie does at shall I say whom? 'And reason gude, said Margaret.
There they might not understand you, and you would suffer a great blow to your prestige if you went there and failed." I didna think that, e'en were I to fail in America, it would prevent me frae coming back to Britain and doing just as well as ever I had. But, then, too, I didna think much o' that idea.
"Ye may say I was a muckle gowk. And ye may lauch at a bairn for greitin' efter the mune; but I doot that same avarice o' the wee man comes frae a something in him that he wad be ill aff wi'oot. Better greit for the mune than no be cawpable o' greetin' for the mune. And weel I wat, I grat for the mune, or a' was dune, and didna get it, ony mair than the lave o' my greedy wee brithers."
'It was awfu' dacent o' Wullie to clear oot, Macgregor remarked happily, as he moved his chair close to the one on which Christina had just seated herself. Christina's chin went up. 'It wud ha'e been dacenter o' him to ha'e waited till the time he was invited to wait. 'But he meant weel. I'm sure he didna want to gang, but he fancied it wud be nice to let you an' me ha'e a a . . .
But I was yet mair astonished and ashamed, when the auld body, sleeking down his hair and his chin, had the assurance to make love to me! 'There is the door, sir! cried I. And when he didna seem willing to understand me, I gripped him by the shouthers, and showed him what I meant.
"Gie me your hand, Meg," cried the old knight; "I didna think ye had as muckle spirit and gumption in ye as to say what ye hae said. But your request is useless; for he has already, point blank, refused to hae ye; an' there is naething left for him, but, before sunset, to strike his heels against the bark o' the auld elm tree."
Twenty-two runs and s-seven wickets to fall. G-good s-sport, my Speug; read it in the newspaper." "It wasna bad. I didna think the 'Bumbees' had as muckle spunk in them; seven wickets, did ye say, against the English? If I had kenned that, Nestie, ye little scoundrel, I would have given them a cheer. Seven wickets they did the job properly." And Speug took his "gundy" with relish.
"I was in the cookhouse, sir, when a shell struck it, smashing everything in sight, and I lost complete control o' my nerves and started for the wagon lines wi'out knowing what I was doing or where I was going, and didna' come to mysel' until Grant ran across me in the dugout." "That won't go, Henderson. Orderly room at ten-thirty in the morning.
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