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Nothing in the Leaf family was ever cast off till its very last extremity of decay; the talent that "Gars auld claes look amaist as gude's the new" being specially possessed by Hilary. She counted over her own wardrobe and Johanna's but found nothing that could be spared. "Yes, my love, there is one thing.
"Man!" said the Highlander, "ane word's as gude's a thousand. Gang back! Gang hame! There's the bit siller here that's to tak ye, and the love yonder that's waiting ye. Listen to a dying man, laddie, and gang hame!" "I doubt if they'd have me," sobbed John Broom, "I gave 'em a deal of trouble, M'Alister."
The conviction of guilt and grace cam in on Tam like the deep sea; he flang doun the pike that was in his hands "I will nae mair lift arms against the cause o' Christ!" says he, and was as gude's word.
His heroes endure rough handling, but they fight their way, for the most part, to the essential qualities of gentlemen. They are no saints; but excellent comrades, honest lovers, and brave tars. See further Preface to F M. From Nodes Ambrosianæ: Peter Simple in his ain way's as gude's Parson Adams ... He that invented Peter Simple's a Sea-Fieldin'.
The conviction of guilt and grace cam in on Tam like the deep sea; he flang doun the pike that was in his hands "I will nae mair lift arms against the cause o' Christ!" says he, and was as gude's word.
"I've nae objection to onything o' that kind, whaur gude's genna be done," says I. "But it's no' nane o' your electric oxey hydropathic kind o' bisnesses, is't? I winna lippen Sandy wi' onything o' that kind, for I tell ye " "Dinna you bather yoursel, Bawbie," brook in Sandy. "This is a parafin lantern; juist as easy wrocht as your washin' machine there."
He added: "He may bless yon lassie's fowr banes, for she's ta'en him oot o' Death's maw, as sure as Gude's in heaven!"
Now he would repeat to himself with maudlin iteration, 'Sic a fecht as they had sic a sair fecht as they had, puir lads, puir lads! and anon he would bewail that 'a' the gear was as gude's tint, because the ship had gone down among the Merry Men instead of stranding on the shore; and throughout, the name the Christ-Anna would come and go in his divagations, pronounced with shuddering awe.
The conviction of guilt and grace cam in on Tam like the deep sea; he flang doun the pike that was in his hands "I will nae mair lift arms against the cause o' Christ!" says he, and was as gude's word.
"Ye're owre douce a like man, I think, to hae been either art or part in this headstrong Reformation, unless ye had some great cause to provoke you; and I doubt na ye hae discretion enough no to contest without need points o' doctrine; at least for me, I'm laith to enter on ony sort o' polemtic, for it's a Gude's truth, I'm nae deacon at it."
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