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Here was the way of it. I was auctioneer, you ken but that was not enough to keep me from bidding myself. And so I worked them up and on and then I bid in the flag for myself for a hundred pounds five hundred dollars of American money. I had my doots about how they'd be taking it to have a stranger carry their flag away. And so I bided a wee.
Dyceworthy," said Macfarlane in his slow, deliberate manner, "that ye have before ye a young Frenchman who doesna believe in onything except himsel' and even as to whether he himsel' is a mon or a myth, he has his doots vera grave doots." Duprez nodded delightedly. "That is so!" he exclaimed. "Our dear Sandy puts it so charmingly! To be a myth seems original, to be a mere man, quite ordinary.
Maybe they've reached the leemit now, but I hae ma doots I'm never thinking a Yankee has reached a leemit, for I've ma doots that he has ane! I kenned fine that they'd heard o' me in America. Wull Morris and others had told me that. I knew that there'd be Scots there tae bid me welcome, for the sake of the old country.
"I told you they had come to a ticklish point in their careers," the Crow permitted himself to remind his friend, "and, 'pon my soul, I could not bet you one way or another how it will go. 'I hae me doots, as the Scotchman said." Meanwhile, Ethelrida, on the plea of letters to write, had retired to her room; and there, as the clock struck a quarter past three, she awaited what?
I'm thinking often, in these days, of hoo the soldiers must be feeling who are back frae France and the years i' the trenches. They've lived great lives, those o' them that ha' lived through it. Do ye think they'll be ready tae gang back to what they were before they dropped their pens or their tape measures and went to war to save the country? I hae ma doots o' that.
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