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"Hoot, laird! nae offence!" returned Mrs Catanach. "I thocht ye was luikin' whaur ye cam frae," returned the man in tones apologetic and hesitating. "'Deed I fash wi' nae sic freits," said Mrs Catanach. "Sae lang's ye ken whaur ye're gaein' till," suggested the man "Toots!
He wasna a man to hae fancies, or stan' upo' freits, but he cudna help the creep that gaed doon his backbane ilka time his ee encoontert that o' the prence it was aye sic a strange luik the prence cuist upon him a luik as gien him an' the yerl had been a'ready ower weel acquant, though the yerl cudna min' 'at ever he had set ee upo' him.
You let ghosts alone, they will let you alone! 'Freits follow them that look for them!" We were poor, very poor indeed in these days.
It was Bryde who had mind of all the freits. "Something old and something new, Something borrowed and something blue," he would be singing, for it will not be lucky to be married without the due observance of these old sayings.
Was it ever yet heard that brownie or bogle mixed colours for a painter? Nay, touch me, and see whether I am not of sinful Scots flesh and blood"; and thereon I laughed aloud, knowing what caused his fear, and merry at the sight of it, for he had ever held tales of "diablerie," and of wraiths and freits and fetches, in high scorn.
There are auld prophecies about this house I wad like ill to see fulfilled wi' my auld een, that has seen evil eneugh already." "Pshaw! never mind freits," said his brother butler; "if the young folk liked ane anither, they wad make a winsome couple. But, to say truth, there is a leddy sits in our hall-neuk, maun have her hand in that as weel as in every other job.
"They that look to freits, my master dear, Their freits will follow them." I will stick to my purpose. Answered a letter from Gillies about establishing a foreign journal; a good plan, but I fear in sorry hands. Of those he names as his assistants they who can be useful will do little, and the labours of those who are willing to work will rather hold the publication down. I fear it will not do.
And mayhap she loves not the sight of the wenches whom she was wont to drive from the camp, above all now that she has broken the Holy Sword of Fierbois, smiting a lass with the flat of the blade." "I like not the omen," said I. "Freits follow them that freits fear," said Randal, in our country speech. "And the Maid is none of these.
Freits are folly, to my thinking, and fools they that follow them. Lad, you gave me a gliff; pass me another stoup of wine! Freits, forsooth!" I served him, and he sat and chuckled in his chair, being pleasured by the thought of his own wisdom. "Not a word of this to Elliot, though," he said suddenly; "when there is a woman in a house blessings on her! it is anything for a quiet life!
"I counted them," said the other, with the eagerness of a person to whom the spectacle had afforded too much interest to be viewed with indifference. "But ye did not see," said Ailsie, exulting in her superior observation, "that there's a thirteenth amang them that they ken naething about; and, if auld freits say true, there's ane o' that company that'll no be lang for this warld.
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