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And that night when she put the child to bed "Now, my dear, ye see!" she said, "I told you what your faither would think of it, if he heard ye had fallen into this dreidful sin; and let you and me pray to God that ye may be keepit from the like temptation or strengthened to resist it!" The womanly falsity of this was thrown away.

With that he carried me again to my adventures, which he heard all over again with more particularity, and extraordinary approval, swearing at intervals that I was "a queer character of a callant." "So ye were frich'ened of Sym Fraser?" he asked once. "In troth was I!" cried I. "So would I have been, Davie," said he. "And that is indeed a dreidful man.

"O, my dear, this is the most dreidful thing that my lord can never be contented in his own house!" she would begin; and weep and pray with the cook; and then the cook would pray with Mrs. It was often wondered that Lord Hermiston bore it as he did; indeed, he was a stoical old voluptuary, contented with sound wine and plenty of it. But there were moments when he overflowed.

"I ken naething else, as the French folk say. But this is a dreidful case of heids or tails. O! if I could but ken where your gentry were!" "Alan," said I, "this is no like you. It's got to be now or never." "This is no me, quo' he," sang Alan, with a queer face betwixt shame and drollery. "Neither you nor me, quo' he, neither you nor me. Wow, na, Johnnie man! neither you nor me."

"I ken naething else, as the French folk say. But this is a dreidful case of heids or tails. O! if I could but ken where your gentry were!" "Alan," said I, "this is no like you. It's got to be now or never." "This is no me, quo' he," sang Alan, with a queer face betwixt shame and drollery. "Neither you nor me, quo' he, neither you nor me, Wow, na, Johnnie man! neither you nor me."

'Here, he could not but reflect, 'here is another link in the Judicial Error. 'And ye look dreidful bad the-day, sir, I must say that, he continued. 'There's nothing like a dram for ye if ye'll take my advice of it; and bein' as it's Christmas, I'm no' saying, he added, with a fatherly smile, 'but what I would join ye mysel'. John had listened with a sick heart.

"Here," he could not but reflect, "here is another link in the Judicial Error." "And ye look dreidful bad the-day, sir, I must say that," he continued. "There's nothing like a dram for ye if ye'll take my advice of it; and bein' as it's Christmas, I'm no' saying," he added, with a fatherly smile, "but what I would join ye mysel'." John had listened with a sick heart.

"I ken naething else, as the French folk say. But this is a dreidful case of heids or tails. O! if I could but ken where your gentry were!" "Alan," said I, "this is no' like you. It's got to be now or never." "This is no' me, quo' he," sang Alan, with a queer face betwixt shame and drollery, "Neither you nor me, quo' he, neither you nor me, Wow, na, Johnnie man! neither you nor me."

With that he carried me again to my adventures, which he heard all over again with more particularity, and extraordinary approval, swearing at intervals that I was "a queer character of a callant." "So ye were frich'ened of Sim Fraser?" he asked once. "In troth was I!" cried I. "So would I have been, Davie," said he. "And that is indeed a dreidful man.

And that night when she put the child to bed "Now, my dear, ye see!" she said, "I told you what your faither would think of it, if he heard ye had fallen into this dreidful sin; and let you and me pray to God that ye may be keepit from the like temptation or stren'thened to resist it!" The womanly falsity of this was thrown away.