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'His horse shied, she called across the waters, 'and fell into the lynn with him. You search that side and I this. So saying she got down from her horse, tied the bridle to a tree, and sought as best she could for any trace of her husband's body on her side of the black cauldron of waters. 'Ye hae been his deid, Kitty had shouted above the tumult of the lynn.
"Ay, he's living yet; but how lang he'll live however, dinna ye mind his coming and asking after you in the spring, and leaving siller?" "It may be sae, Magge I dinna mind it but a handsome gentleman he was, and his father before him. Eh! if his father had lived, they might hae been happy folk!
"Because, sae far as I see, she canna think that ye hae left a' for him." "Ah, that is what you have been teaching her! She does not say that of herself! You have not left her free to choose!" "The queston never came up atween's. She's perfecly free to tak her ain gait and she kens she is!
Bide-the-Bent, can a man do mair than stand reproved?" said the cooper; "but jest let me ask the women what for they hae dished the wild-fowl before we came." "They arena dished, Gilbert," said his wife; "but but an accident " "What accident?" said Girder, with flashing eyes. "Nae ill come ower them, I trust? Uh?"
But, what I feel as strongly as a' the rest, Eachen we hae done meikle ill thegither. I can hardly think o' a past sin without thinking o' you, an' thinking too, that, if a creature like me may hope he has found pardon, you shouldna despair. Eachen, we maun be friends." The features of the stern old man relaxed.
Lammie back his shillin', an' tell 'im 'at I wadna hae ye learn sic ill customs as tak siller. Are they a' weel? 'Ay, brawly, answered Shargar, putting the shilling in his pocket. In another moment Shargar had, without a word of adieu, embezzled the shoes, and escaped from the house without seeing Betty.
The superintendent would be a medical man appointed by Parliament, and he would hae men-servants to do his biddin'." "Not all men-servants, surely?" "Every one o' them. Man, geniuses is no to be trusted wi' womenfolk. No, even Robbie Bu " "So he did; but would the inmates have to put themselves entirely in the superintendent's hands?"
Na, na, I should hae been glad to lend a helping and a willing hand to ony practicable plan, but it would be madness to throw away our lives where there couldna be the slightest possibility o' success." "Listen," said Madge; "I ken what is possible, and what is impossible, as weel as ony o' ye.
Would ye hae me ashamed o' ane o' God's elec' a lady o' the Lord's ain coort?" "Eh, but I'm feart it's a' the compassion o' yer hert, sir. Ye wad fain mak' up to me for the disgrace. Ye could weel do wantin' me."
But I hope, young man, ye deal na rashly in this matter? I hope ye hae secured the approbation of your ain friends and allies, particularly of your uncle, who is in loco parentis?
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