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I saw him gang by wi' Baubie Peterson." They made him no reply, understanding well enough that though the one premise might be true, the conclusion must be as false as it was illogical and spiteful. They did not go to George Macwha's, but set out for Clippenstrae. When they reached the cottage, they found Meg's nose in full vigour. "Na. She's no here. What for sud she be here?
"She will just bide where she is. It is her ain hame, and she is amang her ain folk." "Surely she will not live alone?" "Na, na, that wed gie occasion for ill tongues to set themsel's to wark. Aunt Janet Caird is coming to be company for her. She is fayther's sister, and no quite beyond the living wi'. I thocht o' taking the boat the morn, and going for her." "Where to?"
The lad, seeing that I was na to be jookit, upon this answered me, by saying, he would go and enquire if his master would be at home to me; and the short and the long o't was, that I got at last an audience o' my honourable friend.
"Ah, sir, to London." "What class?" "Second-class." "Had she luggage?" "An unco heavy black leather bag, sir, that was a'." "How do you know the bag was heavy?" "By the way she lugged it, sir. The porter offered to relieve her o' it, but she wad na trust it out o' her hand ae minute." "Ah! Was it a large bag?"
He was one who always took the opposite side a tolerably honest and trustworthy soul, with a good many knots and pieces of crossgrain in the timber of him. His old Adam was the most essential and thorough of dissenters, always arguing and disputing, especially on theological questions. "Na," said Girnel, "ye maun saitisfee me first wha ye are, an' what ye want o' me.
Our captain were a strange, wild man, but once he looked a little pale when he came upo' deck after his turn-in, and saw the green-gray ice going straight up on our beam. Many on us thought as the ship were bewitched for th' captain's words; and we got to speak low, and to say our prayers o' nights, and a kind o' dull silence came into th' very air; our voices did na' rightly seem our own.
While we were having tea she asked to see Mr. Headland, as many of the older of my friends did. I invited him in, and as he entered the dining-room the young woman stepped out into the hall. My friend greeted my husband, and with a mysterious nod of her head in the direction of the young woman she said: "Chiu shih na ke, that's it." The Social Life of the Chinese Woman
"No that yoong," returned Miss Horn. "She was upo' the edge o' aucht an' thirty." "Weel, she had a sair time o' 't." "No that sair, sae far as I see an' wha sud ken better? Na, na; it was nowther sae young nor yet sae sair."
He calls me scabbed, because I will not call him skade. He is blind that eats his marrow, but far blinder that lets him. Have God and have All. Honesty is na pride. He that fishes afore the net, long e're he fish get. He tint never a Cow, that grat for a needle. He that hes no geir to tine, hes shins to pine. Hea, will gar a deaf man hear.
Get the Bible we maun. And ye maun fess't to me direckly." Dow was a peaceable man, and did not much relish the commission. Cupples, thinking he too was a missionar, told him the story. "Weel," said Dow, "lat him sit there. Maybe they'll haud him frae doin' mair mischeef. Whan ye jabble a stank, the stink rises." "I thocht ye was ane o' them. Ye maunna lat it oot." "Na, na. I a' haud my tongue."
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