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"It's my belief and opinion, honest gentleman," said the corporal, "that if you were going to be hanged yourself, you would be in no such d d hurry." This by-dialogue prevented my hearing what passed between the prisoner and Captain Thornton; but I heard the former snivel out, in a very subdued tone, "And ye'll ask her to gang nae farther than just to show ye where the MacGregor is? Ohon! ohon!"
Pedlars, gipsies, tinkers, vagrants of all descriptions, roosted about his outhouses, or harboured in his kitchen; and the laird, who was "nae nice body," but a thorough gossip, like most weak men, found recompense for his hospitality in the pleasure of questioning them on the news of the country-side. A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the high-road to ruin.
"Don't you hear it?" she answered. "The wind is blowing the house down. There's just been a terrible fall, and every moment I hear it going. If my father were only come! We shall be all blown into the burn." "Nae fear o' that, my leddy!" returned Malcolm. "The wa's o' the auld carcass are 'maist live rock, an' 'ill stan' the warst win' 'at ever blew this side o' the tropics, ony gait.
Sorrow tak me if I thought there was a man in ten parishes could hae done the like! Gie's yer hand," said he, as he rose to his feet; "I'll thraw nor cudgel nae mair wi' you; but, as sure as my name's Andrew, I would bite my last coin through the middle, to gie ye the half o't, should ye want it.
'Ye micht hae let a body ken ye were comin'. Sic a potch, she said ruefully. 'My, but ye are a picter, an nae mistak'. Gladys laughed, and the sound rang through the place like sweetest music. 'Have you not been quite well? I think you are thinner, she said kindly. 'No, I've no' been up to muckle; fair helpless some days wi' rheumatics.
"Gude-e'en, if thou comes on a gude errand," said old Dame Alison, suspiciously; "but that's no thy custom, bailie." "I came, dame, to ask John anent Peter Fae." The dame laughed pleasantly. "If thou had asked him anent Margaret Fae, he could tell thee more about it." "This is nae laughing matter, dame. Peter Fae has been murdered yes, murdered!
"We're a' honest men," replied Thomas, "an' we're a' open to conviction, but I houp nane o' us'll be weak eneuch to be convickit. Oor faithers wadna hae been convickit." "It'll dae nae harm to hear the argyments," said Andrew Hogg, the silent member of the session.
But I canna prefer the commands of an earthly mistress to those of a heavenly master, and sae I am e'en ready to suffer for righteousness' sake." "It is very well," said Lady Margaret, turning her back in great displeasure; "ye ken my will, Mause, in the matter. I'll hae nae whiggery in the barony of Tillietudlem the next thing wad be to set up a conventicle in my very withdrawing room."
It's no for fear no for fear, but just for grief, for the puir blinded half-starved creatures that inhabit them but say nae mair about it it's ill speaking o' Hielandmen sae near the line.
She was by his side in a moment, with her lovely young hand on the bony expanse of his, as it covered his face. On the other side, Malcolm laid his lips to his ear, and whispered with soothing expostulation, "It's maist as weel 's ever daddy. It's nane the waur. It was but a bit o' a scart. It's nae worth twise thinkin' o'." "Ta turk went trough it, Malcolm! It went into ta table! She knows now!
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