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They winna gang to a harmless stage play an' richt they for fear o' countenancing the sin that's dune there, an' I winna gang to the kirk, for fear o' countenancing the sin that's dune there, by putting down my hurdies on that stool o' antichrist, a haspit pew!" I was, therefore, altogether surprised at the promptitude with which he agreed to go and hear Crossthwaite's new-found prophet.
But I'm talling ye, I simply will noat go to his house to put up with a wheen damned insults!" he puffed in angry recollection. "To tell the truth," said Wylie, "I don't like to call upon Gourlay either. I'm aware of his eyes on my back when I slink beaten through his gate, and I feel that my hurdies are wanting in dignity!" "Huh!" spluttered Brodie, "that never affects me.
The congregation, one and all, simultaneously stoop; the dog's wickedness has made him well acquainted with the meaning of that act; it is a symbol but too significant to his conscience; and he takes to his heels with the belief that a whole salvo of one hundred and one chermadia are fastening on his devoted 'hurdies.
He's easy wi' a' body that will be easy wi' him; but if ye thraw him, ye had better thraw the deevil." "And by his exploits in these vocations," I continued, "I suppose he has rendered himself amenable to the laws of the country?" "Amenable? ye may say that; his craig wad ken the weight o' his hurdies if they could get haud o' Rob.
He's easy wi' a' body that will be easy wi' him; but if ye thraw him, ye had better thraw the deevil." "And by his exploits in these vocations," I continued, "I suppose he has rendered himself amenable to the laws of the country?" "Amenable? ye may say that; his craig wad ken the weight o' his hurdies if they could get haud o' Rob.
We have swords at our hurdies, and here is the King's Park at hand. Will ye walk first, or let me show ye the way?" I returned his bow, told him to go first, and followed him. As he went I heard him grumble to himself about Cot's English and the King's coat, so that I might have supposed him to be seriously offended. But his manner at the beginning of our interview was there to belie him.
But still it was the dread disgrace of the stool of repentance that bulked most largely in the culprit's imagination. "Na, na," interjected Mistress Mowdiewort, "nae siccan things for ony bairns o' mine. Nae son o' mine sall ever set his hurdies on the like o't." "Be silent, woman!" said the minister severely; "them that will to black stool maun to black stool.
Sandy could hardly get his hat aff for glowerin' aboot him; an' when he did get it aff, he handit it to ane o' the loons; an', afore you cudda sen Jeck Robison, they were oot at the back door scorin' goals wi't throo' atween the claes-poles on the green. Meg was at the hurdies o' them wi' a switch gey quick, an' sune had Sandy's lum hingin' aside his greatcoat in the lobby.
We have swords at our hurdies, and here is the King's Park at hand. Will ye walk first, or let me show ye the way?" I returned his bow, told him to go first, and followed him. As he went I heard him grumble to himself about Cot's English and the King's coat, so that I might have supposed him to be seriously offended. But his manner at the beginning of our interview was there to belie him.
Here have I been moving one for young Ardsheil, my cousin; claimed the estate under the marriage contract a forfeited estate! I told them it was nonsense: muckle they cared! And there was I cocking behind a yadvocate that liked the business as little as myself, for it was fair ruin to the pair of us a black mark, DISAFFECTED, branded on our hurdies, like folk's names upon their kye!
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