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It was a sair trial, and I dinna think ony father has a right to put doon his foot and mar the happiness of twa young folks in the way mine did.
After being turnit frae the castle like a thief, or a beggar, or a dog! after being threatened wi' a constable and a prison if I ever showed my face here; but once mair I hae come agen, in obedience to your bidding! Come creeping, creeping, creeping ander the castle wa', by night, like ony puir cat afeared o' scauding water! Ay, me laird, I'm here, mair fule I!" replied a woman's voice.
"Why, honey, I can 'sport you an' Missus widout pinchin', an' who gwine to know 'bout it?" "I'd know about it," said Mara, rising and putting her hand caressingly on the woman's shoulder, "yet I feel your kindness in the very depths of my heart. Come, I have a thought. Let me see what's in your basket." "Ony cakes dis mawnin', honey. Help you's sef."
Mind you," went on Balcarres hastily, as he saw the black gloom gathering on Dundee's face, "I say not that is my way of it, for I am with you while ony hope remains, but we maun do justice." "Justice!" broke in Claverhouse, irritated beyond control by Balcarres's apologies and his hint of compromise.
She didna ax nor hope neyther; an' when theer coom fresh hurt to her she wur ready an' waiting knowin' as it moight comn ony day.
"Na, na, never a queston!" interposed Peter; "no ane afore even the shaidow o' deith has left the hoose! Draw ye up to the table, my bonny bairn: this isna a time for ceremony, and there's sma' room for that ony day!"
And men clepen the olifantes, warkes. And in that yle there is a gret marvayle, more to speke of than in ony other partie of the world.
'I mean Miss Bradwardine, said Edward. 'Ou aye, the laird's daughter, said his landlady. 'She was a very bonny lassie, poor thing, but far shyer than Lady Flora. 'Where is she, for God's sake? 'Ou, wha kens where ony o' them is now?
An' nether did I, for that pairt o't, for she byochy-byochied awa' the feck o' the nicht, an' I cudna get fa'in' ower. But I didna say onything, for I doot I'm to blame, although I've never lutten dab that I jaloosed ony thing had happened.
The boat continued its course close under the point upon which the castle was situated, which frowned from the summit of its rocky site upon the still agitated waves of the bay beneath. 'I believe, said the steersman, 'ye'll get ashore here as dry as ony gate.
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