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"Eh, guide us!" interrupted the maid, "our young leddy at the feet o' Trooper Tam, and speaking to him about his soul, when the puir chield hardly kens whether he has ane or no, unless that he whiles swears by it that will never do; but what maun be maun be, and I'll never desert a true-love cause And sae, if ye maun see young Milnwood, though I ken nae gude it will do, but to make baith your hearts the sairer, I'll e'en tak the risk o't, and try to manage Tam Halliday; but ye maun let me hae my ain gate and no speak ae word he's keeping guard o'er Milnwood in the easter round of the tower."
I've learned, since then, that American reporters, and especially those that meet the ships that come in to New York, have had cause to form impressions of their ain of a gude many famous folk that would no be sae flattering to those same folk as what they usually see written aboot themselves. Some of my best friends in America are those same reporters.
And then for the spiritual, Huntly is Huntly still, in a great degree, but the gude that's been done in it is a' through her." All that was mortal of this mother in Israel was laid to rest in Elgin Cathedral. That noble fane contained the remains of no one more loved than she. "I can't understand how people should love me," she used to say. Others could understand it.
Another answered him: "'Tis a gude enough bag for me!" They passed him, the whites of their eyes gleaming out of faces black as ink. Pippin drove him home at a furious pace, not uttering a single word. As they turned into the main street, a young woman starting out before the horses obliged Pippin to pull up. The glance he bent on Scorrier was ludicrously prescient of suffering.
Is your honour mad?" exclaimed Andrew. "No; but I think you mean to make me so I give you a third above your demand, and you stand staring and expostulating there as if I were cheating you. Take your money, and go about your business." "Gude safe us!" continued Andrew, "in what can I hae offended your honour?
But when I can find a true friend to the king and his cause, and a moderate episcopacy; when I find a man, as I say, that will stand by church and crown as I did mysell in my master's life, and all through Montrose's time, I think there's naething in the cellar ower gude to be spared on him."
Norton bowed, smiled, and reseated himself near the invalid. In the mean time, Mr. Dubois and his daughter went through the rain to the stables; his wife replenished the tea-urn and began to rearrange the table. Mrs. McNab, during the scene that had thus unexpectedly occurred, had been waddling from one part of the room to the other, exclaiming, "The Lord be gude to us!"
"Ay, ay vera true," exclaimed the caustic old courtier "Impertinent coxcombs they are, that thus intrude themselves on the society of their betters; but your lordship kens how to gar them as gude ye have the trick on't.
Mr. Biddy. Oh, it's not up at all, your honour, sure! but down here through this ways. Mr. H. One word more, my gude lassy. As soon as we shall have all dined, and you shall have ta'en your ane dinner, I shall beg of you, if you be not then too much tired, to show me the way to that bush of Bannow, whereat this Widow Larken's cottage is. Biddy.
The ends of it hung down over his coat, and the general effect of smock, comforter, gaitered shanks, boots tied up in straw, long nose, and shining spectacles, was that of some huge and ungainly bird, hopped from out a fairy-tale or a nightmare. "Be Maister Chappie here likewise?" inquired Billy. "I'm waitin'; an' I've got a fowling-piece, tu." "That's gude then.
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