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"Thanks to ye! God bless ye a', bairns! I've gotten out o' mony a snare when I was waur deserving o' deliverance I shall escape like a bird from the fowler. Play out your play, and never mind me I am mair grieved for the puir lad that's gane, than for aught they can do to me."
In fact, I was not a little pleased, after so long and dull a journey, to approach a region which promised to engage the imagination. My faithful squire, Andrew, did not seem to be quite of the same opinion, for he received the solemn information, "That is the Forth," with a "Umph! an he had said that's the public-house, it wad hae been mair to the purpose."
After aw, they're mair your enemies than mine." "I don't understand you; I have no coal to sell." Bell looked up with a sour grin. "There's worse ways o' hurting a proud man than touching his pocket. If you dinna ken what's going on, it's time you watched young Kit. I'll say nea mair, but aw t 'oad wives are cracking and you can ask Mr. Hayes. He kens!"
"It's my gudeman, sir," said the young woman, with a smile of welcome. "Will you alight, sir, and come into our puir dwelling? Cuddie, Cuddie," a white-headed rogue of four years appeared at the door of the hut "rin awa, my bonny man, and tell your father a gentleman wants him. Or, stay, Jenny, ye'll hae mair sense: rin ye awa and tell him; he's down at the Four-acres Park.
'Ay; but here am I lyin' upo' my bed, slippin' easy awa. An' there was he The old man ceased. The sacred story was too sacred for speech. Robert sat with the New Testament open before him on the bed. 'The mair the words o' Jesus come into me, the doctor began again, 'the surer I am o' seein' my auld Brahmin frien', Robert. It's true I thought his religion not only began but ended inside him.
His tall, powerful frame and his dark, handsome face, all aglow with a passionate conviction of right, and an invincible determination to do it, commanded his thorough admiration. He clasped his hands behind his back and said calmly, "Tallisker, you'll be sorry enough for your temper erelong. You hae gien way mair than I did. Ye ken how you feel about it." "I feel ashamed o' mysel', laird.
Sheriff-clerk!!! But I hae an auld account to settle wi' the carle; and to make amends for bye-ganes, the office shall just cost him as much time-serving and tide-serving as if he were to get it in gude earnest, of whilk there is sma' appearance, unless the Master learns mair the ways of this warld, whilk it is muckle to be doubted that he never will do."
But take your breakfast, Harry, and then lay by your new green coat, and put on your Raploch grey; it's a mair mensfu' and thrifty dress, and a mair seemly sight, than thae dangling slops and ribbands."
Saunders thereupon let go Flecky's tail, who instantly switched it into Meg's face with a crack like a whip. "Ye great muckle senseless hullion!" exclaimed Meg, "gin ye are nae use in the byre, gang oot till ye can learn to keep haud o' a coo's tail! Ye hae nae mair sense than an Eerishman!" There was a pause.
"Will ye no tak' it to please an auld man, bairn?" "Deed will I, sir, I wad do a hantle mair nor that to please you." And again the tears filled her blue eyes as she held out her hand receiving in it a shilling which Mr Cowie, for more relief to his own burdened heart, had substituted for the sixpence. "It's a shillin', sir!" she said, looking up at him with the coin lying on her open palm.
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