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'Na, then he's bewitched for certain, said the housekeeper, letting go her hold; 'he's bewitched, or he's daft, and ony way the Colonel maun just guide him his ain gate. Wae's me! Hech, sirs! It's a sair thing to see learning bring folk to this! And with this compassionate ejaculation she retreated into her own premises.
"You're a pack o' liars," roared Rob, desperately, "and if you say again that ony wandering hussy has haud o' the minister, I'll let you see whether I can loup at throats." "But what makes you look for Mr. Dishart here?" he demanded, with an uneasy look at the light in the mudhouse. "Go hame," replied the precentor, "and deliver up the machine you stole, and leave this Session to do its duty.
At last he looked keenly at Captain Corbet. "He's not ben heard tell of for about twelve days?" "No." "An it's ben ony moderate weather?" "Ony moderate, but foggy." "O, of course. Wal, in my 'pinion, fust an foremust, he ain't likely to hev gone down." "That thar's jest what I say." "An he had them biscuit?" "Yes a hull box." "An the sail for shelter?" "Yes." "Wal; it's queer.
That's how I'm half an hour late; it took us four hours' stiff work for sixteen miles, mostly in the drifts, of course." "It wes gude o' yir lordship, tae mak sic an effort, an' the hale Glen wull be gratefu' tae ye, for ony kindness tae him is kindness tae us."
"Let you out?" said Morton; "they'll make your life answer it." "Ne'er a bit," replied Jenny; "Tam daurna tell he let ony body in, for his ain sake; and I'll gar him find some other gate to account for the escape."
"Na, na'" replied the old lady, "I maun e'en gang while I ha'e company, I dinna expec' to leeve muckle longer at ony rate, but wouldna' like to be eaten by the bears;" and for several years the one who ventured alone to the house of a neighbour after dark was looked upon as possessing more courage than prudence.
North," he said, dejectedly, "and ez I told you before and warned ye, when that gal hez an idee, fower yoke of oxen and seving men can't drag it outer her. She's got a idee o' larnin' never hevin' hed much schoolin', and we ony takin' the papers, permiskiss like and she says YOU can teach her not hevin' anythin' else to do. Do ye folly me?" "Yes," said North, "certainly."
'Well, but when you were in King George's pay, Evan, you were surely King George's soldiers? 'Troth, and you must ask Vich Ian Vohr about that; for we are for his king, and care not much which o' them it is. At ony rate, nobody can say we are King George's men now, when we have not seen his pay this twelve-month.
When Bell Baxter saw Saunders alive, and the coffin of the doctor that saved him on her man's shoulder, she bowed her head on the dyke, and the bairns in the village made such a wail for him they loved that the men nearly disgraced themselves. "A'm gled we're through that, at ony rate," said Hillocks; "he wes awfu' taen up wi' the bairns, conseederin' he hed nane o' his ain."
"Heard ever ony body the like o' this!" interrupted Cuddie; "we'll be driven out o' house and ha' again afore we ken where to turn oursells.
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