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"Ay, ay, sir doon i' the fore," answered Davy, and Malcolm stood by his mistress. "She is like the Psyche," said Florimel, turning to him, "only the mast is not so tall." "Her topmast is struck, you see my lady to make sure of her passing clear under the bridges." "Ask them if we couldn't go down the river a little way," said Florimel. "I should so like to see the houses from it!"
"Weel, that's a' that a' mind, an' the rest a' leave tae yersel'. A've neither kith nor kin tae bury me, sae you an' the neeburs 'ill need tae lat me doon; but gin Tammas Mitchell or Saunders be stannin' near and lookin' as if they wud like a cord, gie't tae them, Paitrick.
'Haud yer tongue, my lord, and dinna bring doon a judgment upo' my hoose, for it wad be missed oot o' Rothieden, 'You're right there, Miss Naper. And here comes the whisky to stop my mouth. The Baron of Rothie sat for a few minutes with his feet on the fender before Miss Letty's blazing fire, without speaking, while he sipped the whisky neat from a wine-glass.
I had almost said it must be, for that the less only can look down but that would not hold absolutely in the kingdoms of this world, while in the kingdom of heaven it is all looking up. "Sit ye doon, Miss Horn," she said; "it 's a lang time sin we had a news thegither." Miss Horn seated herself with a begrudged acquiescence.
Here she lays us, and bids us, while she lies doon to rest, to take a snack ashore, and be thankful for a' the mercies showered on our unworthy heads. Good Mr. Austin is gone fra us, Madam, but surely there remains some amongst us to lift the song of praise and glory."
I can find 'im in half an hour. Five minutes delay might cost 'im his life." The man looked at Conway in doubt and wonder; he was hesitating between obedience and inclination. Then Bachelor Billy spoke up, "Why, mon!" he exclaimed, "what's orders when a life's at stake? We mus' go doon, I tell ye! An ye hold us back ye'll be guilty o' the lad's daith!"
"Well, well, captain, now!" cried Stephen Anerley, getting up after waiting to be spoken to, "the breath of us all is hard to get, with doing of our duty, Sir. Come ye in, and sit doon to table, and his Majesty's forces along o' ye." "Cadman, Ellis, and Dick, be damned!" the lieutenant shouted out to them; "you shall have all the victuals you want, by-and-by. Cross legs, and get your winds up.
"But I wasna to be gainsaid, and Tam took my airm as we gaed doon through the toon to Market Street. There they tried hard to keep him oot frae my sight. They tellt me he wasna fit to be seen, but there's nae law that can keep a wife frae seeing her husband's corpse.
I ken 'at they're there; but I'll sune be used till 't." "Weel, sit ye doon an' tak a cup o' tay wi' 's" "I haena muckle time to spare," said Malcolm; "but I'll tak a cup o' tay wi' ye. Phemy, who had been regarding him with compressed lips and suspended operations, deposited her bread and butter on the table, and slipped from her chair. "Whaur are ye gaein', Phemy?" said her mother.
For Donald was a belated Highlander, his parents having lapsed to the lowlands, where birth took him at a disadvantage; but he was ever struggling to recover Inverness. "I was a hielandman afore I was born and a lowlandman after. I kind o' flawed doon like, ye ken," he said.
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