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You parliament gentlemen must hauve a vaust deal of trouble on your haunds very foine property I understaund yours is, sir. Sir, allow me to drink the health of your good lady!" "I thank you, Mr. , Mr. , what did you say your name was? I beg you a thousand pardons." "No offaunce in the least, sir; no ceremony with me this is perticler good madeira!" "May I ask how I can serve you?" said Mr.

You parliament gentlemen must hauve a vaust deal of trouble on your haunds very foine property I understaund yours is, sir. Sir, allow me to drink the health of your good lady!" "I thank you, Mr. , Mr. , what did you say your name was? I beg you a thousand pardons." "No offaunce in the least, sir; no ceremony with me this is perticler good madeira!" "May I ask how I can serve you?" said Mr.

"I hear they Gairmans send signals wi' their kirk-nocks," remarks Private M'Micking, who, as one of the Battalion signallers or "buzzers," as the vernacular has it, in imitation of the buzzing of the Morse instrument regards himself as a sort of junior Staff Officer. "They jist semaphore with the haunds of the nock "

The corners of his mouth turned down instead of up, thereby giving his grave countenance an unusually arch expression. "Why, what do you mean, you cynical Scot!" demanded John Skyd. "Our shoulders are broad enough, are they not? nearly as broad as your own." "Oo' ay, yer shoothers are weel aneugh, but I wadna gie much for yer heeds or haunds."

The Laird wis aye spakin' and spakin' o' getting yon things 'at they ca' lichthooses upo' wir isles, and he wad say hoo puir seafaring men wis drooned, and ships broken into shallmillins upo' the baus and skerries a' for want o' a licht upo' the laund. And, thinks I, there's plenty o' pates in Boden, and a gude pair o' haunds here tae mak a roogue 'at should lowe a muckle lowe ony nicht.

I had twa things to say to ye the nicht, an' I've said them. Ye needna fash to flyte; I'm no' feared. If ye are a rich man, as they say, ye're waur than oor auld yin, for he haunds oot the siller as lang as it lasts. 'You are a very impudent young woman, said Abel Graham, 'and not a fit companion for my niece. I can't let her go out with you.