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Lammie, and lat's hear yer news. 'I cam frae Aberdeen last nicht, Mistress Faukner, he began. 'Ye haena been hame sin' syne? she rejoined. 'Na. I sleepit at The Boar's Heid. 'What for did ye that? What gart ye be at that expense, whan ye kent I had a bed i' the ga'le-room? 'Weel, ye see, they're auld frien's o' mine, and I like to gang to them whan I'm i' the gait o' 't.
You said, Gart, yes you said that their faces were entirely different from the faces of our people, and that is true. Oh, how true it is! Our people have handsome faces, too don't think our fishermen are ugly, but they haven't these deep, terrible sears. I like them very much, I assure you, Gart. I suppose you are a friend of Haggart's you have such stern, fine eyes? But you are silent?
And now my father is calling me. Where will be the end of my sorrow, Mariet? Where the end of the world is. And where is the end of the world? Do you want to take my sorrow, Mariet?" "I do, Haggart." "No, you are a woman." "Why do you torture me, Gart? What have I done that you should torture me so? I love you." "You lied." "My tongue lied. I love you."
Tod was a wabster to his trade; his loom stood in the but. There he sat, a muckle fat, white hash of a man like creish, wi' a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner. The hand of him aye cawed the shuttle, but his een was steeked. We cried to him by his name, we skirted in the deid lug of him, we shook him by the shou'ther. Nae mainner o' service!
Sir John Pringle, as Boswell says, escaped, but the controversy between Tory and Covenanter raged with great fury, and ended in Johnson's pressing upon the old judge the question, what good Cromwell, of whom he had said something derogatory, had ever done to his country; when, after being much tortured, Lord Auchinleck at last spoke out, 'God, Doctor! he gart kings ken that they had a lith in their neck' he taught kings they had a joint in their necks.
"It's no 'at I'm no willin' to be your freen', mem; but I'm yer son's freen' a'ready, an' gien he war to hear onything 'at gart him mislippen till me, it wad gang to my hert." "Then you can judge what I feel!" said the lady. "Gien it wad hale your hert to hurt mine, I wad think aboot it, mem; but gien it hurtit a' three o' 's, and did guid to nane, it wad be a misfit a'thegither.
"Suppose we send Gart to the city what then?" Desfoso goes on, without looking at Haggart. "Well, the city people will hang him and then what? The result will be that a man will be gone, a fisherman will be gone you will lose a son, and Mariet will lose her husband, and the little boy his father. Is there any joy in that?" "That's right, that's right!" nods the abbot, approvingly.
And when he came there he gart unarm them, and beat them with thorns all naked, and after put them in a deep prison where were many more knights, that made great dolour.
Soft voices say: "The sea is coming." "High tide has started." "The sea is coming." Mariet kisses her father's hand. "Woman!" says the priest tenderly. "Listen, Gart, isn't it strange that this a woman" he strokes his daughter tenderly with his finger on her pure forehead "should be born of me, a man?" Haggart smiles. "And is it not strange that this should have become a wife to me, a man?"
I may not say nay, said King Mark; now choose at your adventure. And so Sir Bleoberis did choose Sir Segwarides' wife, and took her by the hand, and so went his way with her; and so he took his horse and gart set her behind his squire, and rode upon his way.
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