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"The foreigner?" said he, as if there were so many in his experience that some discrimination was called for. "Oh ay, the Coont. A gey queer birkie yon! He's no' awa yet. He's sittin' on his dowp yet, waitin' a dispensation o' Providence that'll gie him a heeze somewhere else." "Is he is he with her?" said Simon. "Oh, thereaboots, thereaboots," admitted Mungo, cautiously.
In came the doctor, and wi' him a nurse, all starched and clean. "Weel, Jamie, an' hoo are the patients the day? None so braw, Annie, I'm fearin'. 'Tis a hard thing, my lassie, but the best in the end. We'll hae ye on yer feet again in no time the noo, and ye can gie yer man a bonnier bairn next time! It's glad I am ye'll let me tak' the wean and care for him." Annie could not answer.
He could appropriate his grandfather's violin, to which, possibly, he might have shown as good a right as his grandmother certainly his grandfather would have accorded it him but her money was sacred. 'Shargar, ye vratch! he cried, 'fess that shillin' here direckly. Tak the twine wi' ye, and gar them gie ye back the shillin'.
Noo, tak ye anither bit sup, for ye ha'e na tasted it. Wull ye no gie Ellen the letter, love? 'Twill save ye tellin' her." Hester passively took the whisky as she was bid, and presently sat up and finished reading the letter. "Peter has been hiding something from me for three years and now " "Yes, an' noo.
To gie her her due, she's cracky, and as for her being a cuttie, you've said yoursel, Mr. Dishart, that we're all desperately wicked, But we're sair tried. Has it ever struck you that the trouts bites best on the Sabbath? God's critturs tempting decent men." "Come alang," cried the Tilliedrum man, impatiently. "I'm coming, but I maun give Mr. Dishart permission to pass first. Hae you heard, Mr.
"Troth, Laird, and there was muckle want o' you, and the like b' you; for there was a whin bonnie lasses there, forbye mysell, and deil ane to gie them hansels." "Weel, Meg, and how mony gipsies were sent to the tolbooth?" "Troth, but three, Laird, for there were nae mair in the fair, bye mysell, as I said before, and I e'en gae them leg-bail, for there's nae case in dealing wi' quarrelsome fowk.
Weel, gie me a sovereign, an' I s' never come near ye. Poor Shargar in his despair turned half mechanically towards Robert. He felt that it was time to interfere. 'You forget, mother, said Shargar, turning again to her, and speaking English now, 'it was I that claimed you, and not you that claimed me. She seemed to have no idea of what he meant.
It was very right to let her bite on the bridle when she was living, and it's very right to gie her a secent burial now she's dead, for that's a matter o' credit to yoursell rather than to her.
Meg kept silence a while, then she said coaxingly, 'Si is a pretty name eneuch; 'tis short an' sweet; gie me a kiss, Si, she wheedled, with a gentle clasp about his waist. 'I'll kiss ye when we win home, replied her husband cautiously. 'But just ae kiss to gang on wi', coaxed Meg further. Si turned half about and smacked his wife upon her rosy cheek, which seemingly he found satisfactory.
There's a note or twa in that drawer a' savit, an' if ye kent ony man that wud gie her a bite o' grass and a sta' in his stable till she followed her maister "Confoond ye, Weelum," broke out Drumsheugh; "its doonricht cruel o' ye to speak like this tae me.
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