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He asked for a match for his pipe, and the man who gave it wore a decent melancholy on his face and shook his head with unction. "This is a bad job, Lewie," he said, using the privileged name of the ancient servant. "Whae would have ettled sic a calaamity to happen in your ain countryside?
Syne the procurator-fiscal came and certifeed the death and the rest was left tae me. I got a wooden coffin made and put him in it, juist as he was, wi' his staff in his hand and his auld duds about him. I mindit o' my sworn word, for I was yin o' the four that had promised, and I ettled to dae his bidding.
And what is the difference between warsling below the water wi' a stane about your neck, and wavering in the wind wi' a tether round it? it's but choking after a', and he drees the doom he ettled for me.
When people first began to believe that I was in earnest, I cannot but acknowledge I was remonstrated with by many, and that not a few were pleased to say my resignation would be a public loss; but these expressions, and the disposition of them, wore away before Michaelmas came; and I had some sense of the feeling which the fluctuating gratitude of the multitude often causes to rise in the breasts of those who have ettled their best to serve the ungrateful populace.
And what is the difference between warsling below the water wi' a stane about your neck, and wavering in the wind wi' a tether round it? it's but choking after a', and he drees the doom he ettled for me.
Bide-a-Wee Cottage, Pettybaw, East Neuk o' Fife. To my trusty fieres, Mony's the time I hae ettled to send ye a screed, but there was aye something that cam' i' the gait. It wisna that I couldna be fashed, for aften hae I thocht o' ye and my hairt has been wi' ye mony's the day.
So it is fortunate to be a native of a hill parish in Scotland! "The Merry Men," as "a fantasia or vision of the sea," is excellent; the poor negro never was, to myself, "convincing." Descending from these heights, Stevenson, like every bookish Scot, "ettled at" a professorial chair that of "History and Constitutional Law," in the University of Edinburgh.
During the day they fancied that the cows had gone, to return no more. But they all came home. 'And now, says old Margaret Ogilvy, 'and now it has all come true like a dream. I can call to mind not one little thing I ettled for in my lusty days that hasna' been put into my hands in my auld age.
Is there any other modern writer who gets round you in this way? Well, he had given my mother the look which in the ball-room means, 'Ask me for this waltz, and she ettled to do it, but felt that her more dutiful course was to sit out the dance with this other less entertaining partner. I wrote on doggedly, but could hear the whispering.
I can call to mind not one little thing I ettled for in my lusty days that hasna been put into my hands in my auld age; I sit here useless, surrounded by the gratification of all my wishes and all my ambitions, and at times I'm near terrified, for it's as if God had mista'en me for some other woman. 'Your hopes and ambitions were so simple, I would say, but she did not like that.
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