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She was ane o' the warst agin me at first, but she telt me i' the buryin' ground 'at when a man mairit he should please 'imsel. Oh, they're comin' round." What Kitty told Jess was "I minded o' the tinkler wuman 'at he gae a shillin' to, so I thocht I would butter up at the auld fule too.
"But the brood-hen," remonstrated Mysie "ou, she's sitting some gate aneath the dais in the hall, and I am feared to gae in in the dark for the dogle; and if I didna see the bogle, I could as ill see the hen, for it's pit-mirk, and there's no another light in the house, save that very blessed lamp whilk the Master has in his ain hand.
Ye've got the Auld and New Testaments in your bedchambers, and the natural history o' Pairthshire on the coffee-room table and if that's no' reading eneugh for ye, ye may een gae back South again, and get the rest of it there." This was the inn at which Anne Silvester had appeared alone, with nothing but a little bag in her hand.
"How dare you ask me to take back what I once gave?" "Ye cudna hae kent what ye was doin' whan ye gae 't, my leddy. Tak it back, an tak a hunnerweicht aff o' my hert." He actually mentioned his heart! was it to be borne by a girl in Lady Florimel's mood? "I beg you will not annoy me," she said, muffling her anger in folds of distance, and again sought her book.
Mary's Loch, the hills, the moors, the yellow flowers. He heard, or fancied he heard, his sister Janet calling him home. "And what have ye for supper?" he muttered between his teeth. "Parritch and milk," answered the lassie gently. "Parritch and milk! Whist! say nae mair! Lang, lang may ye wait for Wild Robin: he'll not gae back for oat-meal parritch!" Next a sad voice fell on his ear.
When I hae a saxpence under my thumb, Then I get credit in ilka town; But when I am puir they bid me gae by Oh, poverty parts good company! While the departure of the page afforded subject for the conversation which we have detailed in our last chapter, the late favourite was far advanced on his solitary journey, without well knowing what was its object, or what was likely to be its end.
There's Davit Lunan 'at can speak like as if he had learned it aff a paper, an' yet I canna thole 'im." "Davit," said Hendry, "doesna speak in a wy 'at a body can follow 'im. He doesna gae even on. Jess says he's juist like a man ay at the cross-roads, an' no sure o' his wy. But the stock has words, an' no ilka body has that."
He bit his lip before replying, to help hold back his mingled feeling of pleasure at the bright prospect opening for Ralph, and of pain for the separation which must follow. "I dinna ken," he said at last, "how aught could be better for the lad than bein' wi' ye. Ye're ower kin' to think o' it. It'll be hard partin' wi' im, but, if the lad wishes it, he s'all gae.
I wonder muckle that yer thouchts are sae set on the vanities o' young men. And such are all that delight in them." "An' I'll gae redd up the dairy, an' kirn the butter, grannie!" said Winsome Charteris, breaking in on the flow of her grandmother's reproaches. No lassie in all the hill country went forth more heart-whole into the June morning than Winsome Charteris.
I tak' back nothing that was deserved; there were toons, and fine they'll ken themselves wi'oot ma naming them, that ought to be ashamed of themselves. There was the book I wrote. Every nicht I'd auction off a copy to the highest bidder the money tae gae tae the puir wounded laddies in Scotland. A copy went for five thousand dollars ane nicht in New York!
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