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"It's been said, on the best authority, that there was a seemilar flood i' the year seeventeen hunner an' seeventy-sax, anither in seeventeen ninety, an' anither in aughteen hunner an' nine." "Hoots! haud yer gab. What div ye ken aboot floods?"
'Haud your peace, gudeman, said Meg, looking sternly over her shoulder; 'is this a time or place for you to speak, think ye? 'But, my good friend, said Bertram, 'as I have no doubt in your good faith or kindness, which I have experienced, you should in return have some confidence in me; I wish to know where you are leading us. 'There's but ae answer to that, Henry Bertram, said the sibyl.
"I doobt Jean has her full share o' a' feelin's belangin' to fallen human natur'," said Mrs Mellis, with a slow horizontal oscillation of the head. "But ye jist come an' see wi' yer ain een, an' syne jeedge for yersel': it 's nae business o' mine." "I'll come the nicht, Mrs Mellis. Only lat it be atween 's twa." "I can haud my tongue, mem, that is, frae a' but ane.
-Repente ad studium hunc se applicasse musicum Amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua-. And in the later prologue to the -Adelphi- he says
"Aweel, then, he's swallowed himself and digested it." "I ca' it fair miracle! The Lord touched him in the night." "Do ye haud that he'll gang to kirk the morn?" "I dinna precisely ken. He micht, and he micht not." He went, entering with Mrs. Grizel, Alice, and Strickland, sitting in the House pew.
"I don't wish no talk 'bout it, Lizay," Alston said. His tone was half sad, half peremptory. "Yer mustn't feel haud agin me ef I tells you somethin', Als'on. Yer's been puttin' cotton in my baskit unbeknownst ter save me some lashes, an' yer throw'd it up ter me yistiddy. Now, look yere, Als'on: I's been he'pin' yer all this week, ever since Mr. Buck said yer got ter git a hunderd.
Christina, teapot in one hand, kettle in the other, burst out laughing. 'Mind ye dinna burn yersel'! cried Macgregor, starting into life. 'Haud the kettle, Mac, said she. 'It's no fair o' Wullie to be sae funny. 'I wasna funny! Willie protested. 'It's yer notion o' the optimistic that tickled me, she said. 'Pour, Mac; I'm steady noo. But ye're quite richt, Wullie.
Yell hae heard o' the muckle kist o' gowd that Sir Arthur has fund down by at St. Ruth? He'll be grander than ever now he'll no can haud down his head to sneeze, for fear o' seeing his shoon." "Ou ay a' the country's heard o' that; but auld Edie says that they ca' it ten times mair than ever was o't, and he saw them howk it up. Od, it would be lang or a puir body that needed it got sic a windfa'."
When the boy ventured to ask a question about where he was, or when he would return, she always replied 'Bairns suld haud their tongues. Nor would she vouchsafe another answer to any question that seemed to her from the farthest distance to bear down upon that subject. 'Bairns maun learn to haud their tongues, was the sole variation of which the response admitted.
Then the cart was stopped for the wee maid to scramble up over a wheel, and there were sweet little sounds of kissing and muffled little cuddlings under the warm plaid. When these soft endearments had been attended to there was time for another yearning. "May I haud wee Bobby, faither?" "Nae, lassie, a bonny bit bairnie couldna haud 'im in 'er sma' airms.
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