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"Na! ane o' them was inclined to be impident, but the ither, a guid-lookin' young felly, accordin' to Jean, took their pairt an' quarrelled wi' his comrade, sae that they cam to loggerheeds at last, but what was the upshot naebody kens, for the bairns took to their heels an' left them fechtin'." "An' what if they sud fin' yer hoose an' the bairns unproteckit?" asked the shepherd.
'Na, yer didn't want ter 'ear me, did yer? Yer don't mind if I dies with rheumatics, do yer? I know. Liza did not answer, but took the bottle, and, pouring some of the liniment on her hand, began to rub it into Mrs. Kemp's rheumatic joints, while the invalid kept complaining and grumbling at everything Liza did. 'Don't rub so 'ard, Liza, you'll rub all the skin off.
You have, both of you, been valued servants both to my cousin and her nieces. I wish to make you a little present each." Here Sir John fumbled in his pocket, and took out a couple of sovereigns. But the old pair drew back in some indignation. "Na, na!" they exclaimed; "it isn't our love for them or for her as can be purchased for gowd." "Well, as you please, my good people.
Barret walked straight up to the door of the hut, and the collies withdrew from the attack as most noisy demonstrators do when treated with silent indifference. "Is there any one inside?" he asked of a bare-legged, shaggy-headed boy, who came out and gazed at him, apparently with his mouth as well as his eyes. "Na," answered the boy. "Any other cottages or houses near this?" "Ay; yonder."
From his leisurely first appearance in the story, "a huge mastiff, sauntering down the middle of the causeway, as if with his hands in his pockets," to the unanswerable last question "His teeth and his friends gone, why should he keep the peace, and be civil?" we follow Rab's pathetic career with the growing conviction that "his like was na atween this and Thornhill," however distant Thornhill may have been.
An' yet I'm sair afraid for they puir feckless French. I ha' na faith, ye ken, in the Celtic blude, an' its spirit o' lees. The Saxon spirit o' covetize is a grewsome house-fiend, and sae's our Norse speerit o' shifts an' dodges; but the spirit o' lees is warse. Puir lustful Reubens that they are! unstable as water, they shall not excel.
I knaw I'm na scholar, an' mabbe ye think I'm rough-mannered. I knaw I've spoken sharply to ye once or twice lately. But it's jest because I'm that mad wi' love for ye: I jest canna help myself soomtimes He waited, peering into her face.
I was surprised to see her, but I durstna speak first, mair than if I had seen a phantom Na, I durst not, my lord, I that hae seen mony sights of terror, and never shook at them. Here she made a deep pause. "And what followed? what followed? For Heaven's sake, good woman But why should I use that word? Yet, good or bad, I command you to tell me."
"Aweel, me leddy, ye ken that your leddyship and your puir serving bodies are strangers here, and me laird and a' his family are well kenned folk, and, mare than that, they are o' the auld nobility mare the shame for me laird, na better to do honor till his race.
But I didna approve o' John Bunyan's doctrine. It's rank Armenianism." "I have just finished a volume of Scott's poems. Have you read any of them?" "Na, na; I hae nae skill o' poetry, sir, an' it be na the Psalms o' David." "Let me read you a stanza, that I think you will enjoy."
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