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As they rode past the ruined cottages at Derncleugh, Dinmont said, 'I'm sure when ye come to your ain, Captain, ye'll no forget to bigg a bit cot-house there? Deil be in me but I wad do't mysell, an it werena in better hands. I wadna like to live in't, though, after what she said. Od, I wad put in auld Elspeth, the bedral's widow; the like o' them's used wi' graves and ghaists and thae things.
"Nay, Mother," said Seth, "thee mustna think me unkind, but I should be going against my conscience if I took upon me to say what Dinah's feelings are. And besides that, I think I should give offence to Adam by speaking to him at all about marrying; and I counsel thee not to do't. Thee may'st be quite deceived about Dinah.
For aw that, mending dyke is landlord's business." "I'll not stir a hand to save Osborn's crops," the miller declared when he met them at the door. "His oad rogue o' an agent promised me he'd build up brocken lade, but when time came I had to do't mysel'." Two of the others grumbled about promises Hayes had not kept, and then Kit said, "All this is not important.
"They hae dune the job for anes," said Cuddie, "an they ne'er do't again." "They flee! they flee!" exclaimed Mause, in ecstasy. "O, the truculent tyrants! they are riding now as they never rode before. O, the false Egyptians the proud Assyrians the Philistines the Moabites the Edomites the Ishmaelites!
Next time you and I are after aught the least amiss, let's do't in Heaven's name then and there, and not take time to think about it, far less talk; so then, if they take us to task we can say, alack we knew nought; we thought no ill; now, who'd ever? and so forth. For two pins I'd go thither in all their teeth." Defiance so wild and picturesque staggered Kate.
Louey at the time I was tellin' you, and it's allers a p'int of honor with me to keep my agreements." "Couldn't yees be doing that, and this same thing, too?" "Can't do't. S'pose I should git on the trail that is lost, can yer tell me how fur I'd have to foller it? Yer see I've been in that business afore, and know what it is.
Hendry looked at me apologetically while these instructions came up. "I winna dive my head wi' sic nonsense," he said; "it's no' for a man body to be sae crammed fu' o' manners." "Come awa doon," Jess shouted to him, "an' put on a clean dickey." "I'll better do't to please her," said Hendry, "though for my ain part I dinna like the feel o' a dickey on week-days.
What was passing in his mind, the boys did not suspect, and they feared lest he should refuse. But presently he got up, saying, with gruffness which was assumed to hide a sudden tenderness in the old sailor's heart, "I ken do't fur ye, lad, I s'pose! tho' I call ye foolish all the same. The 'Gull' be engaged fur the next run, but the next arter that ye shall hev yer boards an' yer carpenter."
"They hae dune the job for anes," said Cuddie, "an they ne'er do't again." "They flee! they flee!" exclaimed Mause, in ecstasy. "O, the truculent tyrants! they are riding now as they never rode before. O, the false Egyptians the proud Assyrians the Philistines the Moabites the Edomites the Ishmaelites!
"I've seen her do't mysel," said Sam'l. "There's no a lassie maks better bannocks this side o' Fetter Lums," continued Pete. "Her mither tocht her that," said Sam'l; "she was a gran' han' at the bakin', Kitty Ogilvy." "I've heard say," remarked Jamie, putting it this way so as not to tie himself down to anything, "'at Bell's scones is equal to Mag Lunan's."
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