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"But," urged Swankie, "he's a smuggler, and a cross-grained hound besides. It's no' like robbin' an honest man." "An' what are we but smugglers'!" retorted Spink; "an' as to bein' cross-grained, you've naethin' to boast o' in that way. Na, na, Swankie, ye may do't yersel, I'll hae nae hand in't. "Ay, man, but ye've turned awfu' honest all of a suddent," said the other with a sneer.

"Didn't I bid ye hau'd your tongue?" "Ay." "Do't then." MacRummle dropped a worm gently into the head of the pool, and let it go with the current. Instantly the line straightened, the rod bent, the reel spun, and from the other side of the pool there leaped a lovely bar of silver, which fell back to its native element with a considerable splash.

Why, a mule has wit enough in's head to do't with his hoofs, an' ye could drive him into the tub. Come, off doublet, and try." "I am your man," said the brave old soldier, stripping for the unwonted toil. "I'll risk my arm in soapsuds, an you will risk your glory." "My what?" "Your glory and honour as a washerwoman."

"Dinna take on in that way, dawtie," he would say, "I'll be good to you." "But you're no Tommy," Elspeth answered. "I'm not, I'm but a stunted tree, blasted in my youth, but for a' that I would like to have somebody to care for me, and there's none to do't, Elspeth, if you winna.

"Let me bide, laddie," he said. "You've doon your best to save me, but you canna do't mair; gang awa' and save your ain sel'." "No I won't, Mr Macdougall," I cried, stopping and treading water for a minute or two, while he imitated my example. "If I'm saved, you shall be saved; and if you drown, I'll drown too!"

"And are we to part in this way," said Jeanie, "and you in sic deadly peril? O Effie, look but up, and say what ye wad hae me to do, and I could find in my heart amaist to say that I wad do't." "No, Jeanie," replied her sister after an effort, "I am better minded now.

"Leeby," said Jamie, "dinna greet, an' I'll never do't again." He put his arms round her, and she kissed him passionately. "O, Jamie," she said, "hae ye prayed to God to forgie ye?" Jamie did not speak. "If ye was to die this nicht," cried Leeby, "an' you no made it up wi' God, ye wouldna gang to heaven. Jamie, I canna sleep till ye've made it up wi' God." But Jamie still hung back.

Well, I will do't: Yet were there but this single plot to lose, This mould of Marcius, they, to dust should grind it, And throw it against the wind; to the market-place; You have put me now to such a part, which never I shall discharge to the life. Com. Come, come, we'll prompt you. Vol. Cor. Well, I must do't. Away my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit!

"Ye were going to say Morris," said Rob Roy coolly, for he was too much accustomed to deeds of violence for the agitation he had at first expressed to be of long continuance. "I used to laugh heartily at that reik; but I'll hardly hae the heart to do't again, since the ill-far'd accident at the Loch. Na, na his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.

Where he gets the gear to do't nane can say; he lives high, and far abune his rents here; however, he pays his way Sae, if there's ony out-break in the country, he's likely to break out wi' the first and weel does he mind the auld quarrels between ye, I'm surmizing he'll be for a touch at the auld tower at Earnscliff."