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'And can you expect, answered Maxwell, in the same tone, 'that I am to place my friend's safety, not merely in your hands, but in those of any person you may choose to confide in, and who may use the knowledge to his destruction? Na na I have pledged my word for your safety, and you must give me yours to be private in the matter giff-gaff, you know.
"Ey, man," said the king, "come ye to me there? I thought ye wad e'en be like the rest of them. One would think our subjects' lives and goods were all our ain, and holden of us at our free will; but when we stand in need of ony matter of siller from them, which chances more frequently than we would it did, deil a boddle is to be had, save on the auld terms of giff-gaff.
Christina; I'll never tell him, not I! I know well you slipped the words to pleasure me. But giff-gaff makes us good friends, and so you must just walk to the door with me and pass a word with my aunt, and say neither this nor that about me, and I will forget you ever said Andrew had such a thing as a 'plan' about me."
Na, na! when I was in that way I played at giff-gaff with the officers: here a cargo taen vera weel, that was their luck; there another carried clean through, that was mine; na, na! hawks shouldna pike out hawks' een. 'And this Colonel Mannering? said Brown.
If Miss Armacost is a real lady, as I think, she will appreciate the motive of our gift, if not the gift itself. And if she's not a gentlewoman her opinion would not matter." "But she is, mother; she is. I'm so glad I can do something for her! She was nice to me, and 'giff-gaff makes good friends." On the morning of the blizzard, at that dark hour which comes just before daylight, Dr.
My grandfather says 'giff-gaff makes good friends, an' 'one kind turn 'serves another. He knows a lot, grandpa does; an' me an' him both thanks you, Meg-Laundress you darlin'!" Away around the big neck of the woman at the tub went Glory's slender arms, and when the patient toiler released herself from this inconvenient embrace, there was something besides soapsuds glistening on her hot cheek.
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