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"It's just the like o' her the auld villain likes best," rejoined Christy. "He doesna gie a doit for a gizzened sinner, wha will fa' into his hands at the lang run without trouble.
"So that, if I like," concluded my grandfather, hammering out his words, "I can leave every doit I die possessed of to the Great Magunn?" meaning probably the Great Mogul. "No doubt of it," replied Gregg, with a shadow of a smile. "Ye hear that, Aadam?" asked my grandfather. "I may be allowed to say I had no need to hear it," said my uncle. "Very well," says my grandfather.
He told us that, at Berlin, just before a dinner at which were all the principal ambassadors of Europe, Madame de Stael, who had been invited to meet them, turned to a picture of Buonaparte, then at the height of his power, and addressed it with Voltaire's lines to Cupid: Qui que ce soit, voici ton maitre, Il est, le fut, ou le doit etre.
So much wine, and no more, should they have; when they frowned, I let them see that their frowning and their half-drawn knives mattered no doit to me. It was their whim a huge jest of which they could never have enough still to make believe that they sailed under Kirby.
His new scarlet coat imparts a healthy hue to his face, and good boots and breeches hide the imperfections of his bad legs. His hounds seem to partake of the old man's gaiety, and gather round his horse or frolic forward on the grassy sidings of the road, till, getting almost out of earshot, a single 'yooi doit!
"Pay it I say; pay it: 'tis fairly won." "Fifty pounds!" "Every doit," said I: "I'm sick of schooling." "Be hang'd if I do!" snapp'd Master Carter. "Then be hang'd, sir, but all the town shall hear to-morrow of the frog and the pool! No, sir: I am off to see the world "'Says he: "This is better than moping in school!""
"You can readily get English coin changed in the town," he observed with a smirk, as in sheer bewilderment I gazed upon this paltry doit. I was desperately minded to Fling it at him, knock him and the Chaplain down, and leave the precious pair to pick themselves up again, but I forebore. "Well," I said, "if that's the value you put upon your life, I can't grumble at your Guerdon.
And it had, I suppose, at the long last, to go by RIGHT OF WINDFALL to somebody or other: unless, perhaps, it still lie, overwhelmed under dust and lumber, in the garrets of the old Rathhaus yonder, waiting for a legal owner? What became of it, no man knows; but that no doit of it ever went Freytag's or King Friedrich's way, is abundantly evident.
On this creature of his art he has lavished the last doit of human capacity for expression; with what bearing shall he face the exacting realities of life?
"Three!" cried Gaspard, and his voice broke. Hippolyte looked insulted. "M'ssieurs," he shouted, "they are from the Canaries. Diable, un berger doit etre genereux." Another laugh, and Gaspard wiped the perspiration from his face. "Five!" said he. "Six!" said Nick, and the villagers turned to him in wonderment. What could such a fine Monsieur want with two yellow birds?
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