United States or Antigua and Barbuda ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
By all the gods, he of the laconic garment, the "thousand hill man," would have been careering on a cloud after his "freen" Ossian, with the moon shining through him, within that very hour. Still I would not have bothered you; but I know his Most Gracious Majesty King William, God bless him! "Poo, nonsense." Indeed!
My eye, Bill! what words you fakes! Bill. Ain't he her natural enemy, then? Ain't it yer father as bumps yer 'ed, an' cusses ye, an' lets ye see him eat? Afore he gets our Mattie, I'll bite! Tho. Poor lad! poor lad! Dunnot say that! Her feyther's th' best freen' hoo's getten. Th' moor's th' pity, for it's not mich he can do for her. But he would dee for her he would. Go along, Daddy-devil!
As soon as all was over, Malcolm set out to return home. As he passed Joseph Mair's cottage, he found Phemy waiting for him at the door, still in the mild splendour of her pearl-like necklace. "I tellt the laird what ye tellt me to tell him, Malcolm," she said. "An' what did he say, Phemy?" asked Malcolm. "He said he kent ye was a freen'." "Was that a'?" "Ay; that was a'."
I'll du naething till I'm doonricht sure it's the pairt o' a freen'." "That's just what makes you the only fit person to help me that I know. If I were to employ people in the affair, they might be rough with the poor fellow." "Like eneuch, mem," assented Malcolm, while the words put him afresh on his guard. "But I might be driven to it," she added. Malcolm responded with an unuttered vow.
The object o' my affections, on this occasion, was a pretty girl, whom I met wi' at the house o' a mutual freen. She was a stranger in oor toun, an' had come frae Glasgow o' which city she was a native on a short visit to a relation.
Malcolm thought he might take his own time to set the child right, and asked her to go and tell her father that he wanted to see him. In a few minutes Blue Peter appeared, rubbing his eyes one of the dead called too early from the tomb of sleep. "Freen' Peter," said Malcolm, "I'm gaein' to speak oot the day." Peter woke up.
Why, man, I've been lookin' for you ever since that unlucky accident, to offer you a change of clothes and a feed in my tent or I should say our tent, for I belong to a `party, like every one else here. Come along." "Thank 'ee kindly," answered Sandy, "but what between haverin' wi' thae Englishers an' drinkin' their whusky, my freen' Jerry an' me's dry aneugh already."
Sae, speakin' as a guid Whig, an honest freen' to you, and an anxious freen' to my ainsel', the plain fact is that I think ye'll just have to bide here wi' Andie an' the solans." "Andie," said I, laying my hand upon his knee, "this Hielantman's innocent." "Ay, it's a peety about that," said he. "But ye see, in this warld, the way God made it, we canna just get a'thing that we want."
"Very," answered I, in utter dismay at what seemed to me a magical process for getting at all my secret failings. "Hum, hum! Amative and combative organs sma' a general want o' healthy animalism, as my freen' Mr. Deville wad say. And ye want to read books?" I confessed my desire, without, alas! confessing that my mother had forbidden it.
"The very same," says I. "Mony's the time I've thocht upon you and your freen, and blithe am I to see you in your braws," she cried; "though I kennt ye were come to your ain folk by the grand present that ye sent me, and that I thank ye for with a' my heart."
Word Of The Day