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"Say my lady. That's how people speak to me." That'll be hoo ye're so terrible bonny," he returned, with some tremulousness in his tone. "But ye maun put on yer hose, my leddy, or ye'll get yer feet cauld, and that's no guid for the likes o' you." The form of address she prescribed, conveyed to him no definite idea of rank.
"An it's a guid thing," added Saunders, "that there's a new cemetery a-makkin'. There's no room for anither dizzen in yer auld kailyaird onyway an' that I'm tellin' ye. An' I'm promised the new job too. Ye can howk yer ain graves yersel's."
John has us both in hands and keeps us under fine. But that does not affect his cooking. He is as good as a woman in a house." "An' that's a lee," said the old lady. "The best man's no as guid as the warst woman in a hoose!" Winsome did not appear to be listening. Of what interest could such things be to her? Her grandmother was by no means satisfied with Ralph's report.
Guid nicht, me laird, and guid rest till ye," said Auld Saundie, as he withdrew himself and his subordinate from the cell, and locked his prisoner in finally for the night. When he got back to his office he summoned all of his officers around him and spoke to them. "Lads, I ha'e sair misgivings anent yon Laird Vincent.
"O Nelly, Nelly!" said Jock, "is't you is't you? gie's a haud o' yer hand, woman oh, gie's a haud o' yer hand, for I canna speak." "Atweel no," said Nelly; "if ye had on yer claes, and were butt at the kitchen fire, I micht maybe gie ye my hand, if it were to do ye guid; but, as lang as ye lie there, and roar and squall that gate, ye needna look for a hand o' mine."
Yir mother's bearin' her sorrow all alane in Ettrick and her laddie'll bear it ayont the ocean. We're a' in God's guid hands. Your loving mother, I returned the well worn letter to the unhappy hand from which I had received it. He tenderly wrapped it about his mother's picture and thrust the parcel back beside the loyal heart which shared, as it was bidden, the great sorrow and disgrace.
'D'ye think I'm completely mad? There's something wrang wi' ye when ye can sponge aft a girl, even supposin' she's fat. So ye can tak' ma offer or a dashed guid hammerin' when the first chance comes. 'Dinna be sae free wi' yer hammerin's, ma lord! Remember, it was a draw the last time. 'I wasna angry, an' I had gloves on. Willie considered for a moment and decided to compromise.
"It was a verra guid thing after a' said," he explained, "that it wasna my mouth, for it was an unco' ding. I'm half hungry yet, and, to be sure, breakfast and broillerie gang ill together." It was well said, and Margaret rewarded him with a smile and engaged him in merry conversation.
Do you remember that night long ago when Lizzie Hepburn and you took me to the Ariel Music Hall? 'Yes, I mind it fine. I was thinkin' o't no' a meenit syne. 'Well, don't you think that the girls we saw there might have some place a little pleasanter and safer for them to be in than a music hall? 'Yes, answered Teen, with unwonted seriousness. 'It's no' a guid place.
"Jeanie was a distant connexion o' my aunt's; an' she found us out that night, on her return to the village, an' tould us a' her grief. My aunt was a kind, guid woman, an' was indignant at the treatment she had received, an' loved and cherished her as if she had been her ain bairn.
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