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But with the latch in his hand he turned, and, lo, there in the middle of the floor, with the child in her arms, stood the beautiful Maggie, as if in act to follow him: both were staring after him. "Dinna anger him, father," said Maggie; "he disna ken better!" "Weel ken I, my dautie, that he disna ken better; but I canna help thinkin he's maybe no that far frae the waukin.
"His honour," said the chairman, "will be at Clerihugh's about this time Hersell could hae tell'd ye that, but she thought ye wanted to see his house." "Well, then, show me to this tavern I suppose he will see me, as I come on business of some consequence?" "I dinna ken, sir," said the girl; "he disna like to be disturbed on Saturdays wi' business but he's aye civil to strangers."
"Ye haena that censorious body, Lachlan Campbell, wi' ye the nicht," thrusting his head in on the thirds. "There's naething Peter disna ken," Hillocks remarked with admiration afterwards; "he's as gude as the Advertiser." When Flora had come home, and Drumtochty resumed freedom of criticism, I noticed for the first time a certain vacillation in its treatment of Lachlan.
But ye'll better come up wi' me to my room first," he went on, "for the maister disna like to see me in onything but the kilt." "And why will he no pe in ta kilts aal as now?" "I hae been ridin', ye ken, daddy, an' the trews fits the saiddle better nor the kilts." "She'll not pe knowing tat.
Disna he ken there's ten times mair to be made o' ae gentleman like you, wi'siller at his back, nor ten common men sic as he's like to get for his dothers? Weel kens he it's nae faut o' you or yours 'at ye're no freely sae weel aff as some 'at oucht an' wull be waur, gien it be the Lord's wull, or a' be dune!
I ken the way, dark or light, as weel as blind Ralph Ronaldson, that's travelled ower every moor in the country-side, and disna ken the colour of a heather-cowe when a's dune." I highly approved of Andrew's amendment on my original proposal, and we agreed to meet at the place appointed at three in the morning. At once, however, a reflection came across the mind of my intended travelling companion.
"It's a pity he disna get his hair tied and pouthered," said the ancient friseur, when he had got once more into the kitchen, in which, on one pretence or other, he spent three parts of his idle time that is to say, of his whole time "it's a great pity, for he's a comely young gentleman."
"I dinna like to hear folk swearin' at a'. I wonner the Lord disna open the grun' to swallow the half o' the folk noo-a-days; for I never heard sic swearin' a' my life." "Och, there's nae harm meant," returned Annie, taken aback by the old woman's admonition. "It's jist a habit that folk get into an' they canna help it. But listen to her," she broke off, alluding to Mag Robertson again.
"Tak' care hoo ye affront him, whan ye tak' it," said Andrew Constable to his wife, who was setting out to carry him some dish of her own cooking for Andrew's wife belonged to the missionars "for weel ye ken Thamas likes to be unner obligation to nane but the Lord himsel'." "Lea' ye that to me, Anerew, my man. You 'at's rouch men disna ken hoo to do a thing o' that sort.
You are a new man here and so I will excuse you the impudence of charging me with indifference to the well-being of my men." "You put wur-r-ds in my mouth, Mr. Maitland. A said nae sic thing," said McNish. "But your foreman disna' know his place, and he must be changed." "'Must, eh?" The word had never been used to Mr. Maitland since his own father fifty years before had used it.
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