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What's a' this aboot Mrs Forbes and you?" "Grit fowk maunna ride ower the tap o' puir fowk like me, Miss Anderson." "She's a widow, Mr Bruce"-�Annie could not add "and childless"�-"and lays nae claim to be great fowk. It's no a Christian way o' treatin' her." "Fowk maun hae their ain. It's mine, and I maun hae't. There's naething agen that i' the ten tables.
"For that, he maun be pleast wi' ye!" "I dinna think nane aboot that; I jist tak my life i' my han', and awa' wi' 't til Him; and he's never turned his face frae me yet. Eh, sir! think what it would be gien ever he did!" "But we maunna think o' him ither than he would hae us think." "That's hoo I'm aye hingin aboot his door, luikin for him." "Weel, I kenna what to mak o' ye!
Fareweel fareweel, Effie! Dinna speak to me I maunna greet now my head's ower dizzy already!" She tore herself from her sister's arms, and left the cell. Ratcliffe followed her, and beckoned her into a small room. She obeyed his signal, but not without trembling. "What's the fule thing shaking for?" said he; "I mean nothing but civility to you. D n me, I respect you, and I can't help it.
And O, Reuben, the poor lassie in yon dungeon! but I needna bid your kind heart gie her what comfort ye can as soon as they will let ye see her tell her But I maunna speak mair about her, for I maunna take leave o' ye wi' the tear in my ee, for that wouldna be canny. God bless ye, Reuben!"
* Inch-Cailleach is an island in Lochlomond, where the clan of MacGregor were wont to be interred, and where their sepulchres may still be seen. It formerly contained a nunnery: hence the name of Inch-Cailleach, or the island of Old Women. "Say nae mair, Robin say nae mair We'll see what may be dune. But ye maunna expect me to gang ower the Highland line I'll gae beyond the line at no rate.
I will wait in the Park till nightfall, and join you when you set out." "It is impossible," said Jeanie; "there maunna be mortal creature within hearing of our conference." "Have you considered well the nature of what you are going to do? the time the place an unknown and suspicious character?
* The lads with the kilts or petticoats. And, unless it just fa' in the preceese way o' your duty, ye maunna see me oftener, Nicol, than I am disposed to be seen."
But then she did not know what it was to be contradicted; and if she had been married, and had had sons, perhaps a sternness not dissimilar might have shown itself in her nature. 'Noo ye maunna gang awa' till ye get something, she said, after taking the receipt in request from a drawer within her reach, and laying it upon the table.
"My, how weel aff ye are!" one woman would exclaim, "I'm telt that ye maunna use a scrubbin' brush on't, or the pattern will rub off." "Oh, ay," Nellie would laugh with a hint of superior wisdom in it. "Ye'll soon waste it gin ye took a scrubber to it. An' ye maunna use owre hot water to it either," she would add. "Oh my!" would come in genuine surprise. "Do you tell me that.
There is the historic case of the caddie on the Scottish links who warned a beginner, dallying too much on the tee, that he "maunna address the ba' sae muckle."
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