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"I never kent ony guid come o' bein' ower sair upo' bairns," said he. "She's as easy guidit as a coo gaein' hame at nicht, only ye maun jist lat her ken that ye're there, ye ken." "Ow! ay," said Marget, a little nonplussed in her turn. "Wad ye like to see her?" "What ither did I come for?" "Weel, I s' gang and luik for her."
"Ou ay," responded that good woman, as she spread the counterpane over the pillows in the way I particularly dislike, "ou ay, but whiles I think it's a peety he couldna be guidit!" We were to make our bow to the Lord High Commissioner and the Marchioness of Heatherdale in the evening, and we were in a state of republican excitement at 22 Breadalbane Terrace.
So, after mature deliberation, the baillie addressed her as follows: "Aye, aye, Raby! An' sae I find that Dalcastle has actually refused to say prayers with you when you ordered him; an' has guidit you in a rude indelicate manner, outstepping the respect due to my daughter as my daughter. But, wi' regard to what is due to his own wife, of that he's a better judge nor me.
'He never said it, Kirsty! cried Phemy, her cheeks now glowing, now pale as death. 'He daurna! 'He daured; and he daured to me! He said, "I wudna merry her gien baith o' ye gaed doon upon yer knees to me!" 'Ye maun hae sair angert him, Kirsty, or he wudna hae said it! Of coorse he wasna to be guidit by you! He cudna hae meaned what he said! He wad never hae said it to me!
"Ye guidit him, nae doot?" inquired Carmichael's aunt, with interest. There 's maybe naethin' wrang wi' a denner, but the next thing 'll be an exchange o' poopits, and the day ye dae that ye may close the Free Kirk.
Only I doobt I'll be lang awa afore that, for it taks time to fess a man like that till's holy senses." The sixth of the family now entered, and his mother led him up to the bed. "The Lord preserve's!" cried Donal Grant, "it's the cratur! An' is that the gait they hae guidit him! The quaietest cratur an' the willin'est!" Donal began to choke. "Ye ken him than, laddie?" said his mother.
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