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He tried the prayer, an' the words wouldnae come to him; an' he tried, they say, to write at his book, but he couldnae mak' nae mair o' that. There was whiles he thocht the black man was at his oxter, an' the swat stood upon him cauld as well-water; and there was other whiles when he cam' to himsel' like a christened bairn and minded naething.
"Gudewife," said Davie, interrupting her, "these are but idle tales to tell me; fit for naething but to puff up our inward man wi' our ain vain acts. I stude beside blessed Alexander Peden, when I heard him call the death and testimony of our happy martyrs but draps of blude and scarts of ink in respect of fitting discharge of our duty; and what suld I think of ony thing the like of me can do?"
They also pointed out several advantages which were likely to accrue to him from adopting this theory, and several disadvantages which would infallibly result from his adoption of any other. "The place," they said, "was but sma', and the rent high; and as lang as he had only a servant, he had naething but her bit year's wage to pay at the term.
"Ha, ha!" she replied, "I aye thought it would come to this. It's but sitting silent when they examine me there's nae torture in our days; and if there is, let them rend me! It's ill o' the vassal's mouth that betrays the bread it eats." "Speak to her, Edie," said the Antiquary; "she knows your voice, and answers to it most readily." "We shall mak naething mair out o' her," said Ochiltree.
"For twa gude reasons," answered the beggar, who quietly kept his sitting posture; "first, because, as I said before, we have naething to dig wi', for they hae taen awa the picks and shules; and, secondly, because there will be a wheen idle gowks coming to glower at the hole as lang as it is daylight, and maybe the laird may send somebody to fill it up and ony way we wad be catched.
"Ay, what are thae to angels and archangels, powers and dominions, purity, faith, hope, charity? Naething at a'." "Maybe; but I wish I could see them, and I wish I could see the man who wrote anent them, and I wish you could write a book like it, Davie." "Me! I have an ambition beyond the like o' that. To be His messenger and speak the words o' truth and salvation to the people!
He had once seen in the Empire the Great Prince 'The Bounder King' bring down the house by appearing as 'The MacSlogan of that Ilk, and singing the celebrated Scotch song, 'There's naething like haggis to mak a mon dry! and he had ever since preserved in his mind a faithful image of the picturesque and warlike appearance which he presented. Indeed, if the true inwardness of Mr.
Corliss's voice was sharp and relentless. "I'll do naething o' the kind." He turned a rebellious face on his tormentor, and ground his teeth in anger and disappointment. The canoe was drifting down with the current, and Frona merely held it in place. Corliss crawled forward on his knees.
His hour had come, an' he had fallen in a fit, as 'twould seem, head-foremost amang the water o' the trough, where he had been smothered, an' sae ye see, the prophecy o' the kelpie availed naething." There was once a gentleman that lived in a very grand house, and he married a young lady that had been delicately brought up.
'Naething very particular; but I am feared that she's wearyin' here, an' that she wants to get away back to Glesca, said Teen, with a slight hesitation, it must be told, since such an insinuation appeared to savour of the deepest ingratitude. 'Oh, do you think so? I thought she was quite happy. She certainly looks much brighter and better, and feels so, I hope.
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