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"None in the world," said Morton; "and if an opportunity occurs of doing so, depend on it I for one will not let it slip." "I'm blythe to hear ye say sae," answered Cuddie. "I'm but a puir silly fallow, but I canna think there wad be muckle ill in breaking out by strength o' hand, if ye could mak it ony thing feasible.
"Madge," said Ratcliffe, "hae ye ony joes now?" "An ony body ask ye, say ye dinna ken. Set him to be speaking of my joes, auld Daddie Ratton!" "I dare say, ye hae deil ane?" "See if I haena then," said Madge, with the toss of the head of affronted beauty "there's Rob the Ranter, and Will Fleming, and then there's Geordie Robertson, lad that's Gentleman Geordie what think ye o' that?"
"Sin' lang afore I had ony min' o' my ain!" responded Dawtie, turning to her vernacular. "Then let us be of one heart too, Dawtie!" She was so accustomed to hear Andrew speak in figures, that sometimes she looked through and beyond his words. She did so now, and seeing nothing, stood perplexed. "Winna ye, Dawtie?" said Andrew, holding out his hands. "I dinna freely un'erstan' ye, An'rew."
"As far 's I can gang wi' a clean conscience, I'll gang, no ae step ayont," said Malcolm. "You mean to say your judgment is a safer guide than mine?" "No, my lord; I micht weel follow yer lordship's jeedgment, but gien there be a conscience i' the affair, it's my ain conscience I'm bun' to follow, an' no yer lordship's, or ony ither man's.
'Die for the law! 'You HOPE such a death for your friend, Evan? 'And that do I e'en; would you have me wish him to die on a bundle of wet straw in yon den of his, like a mangy tyke? 'But what becomes of Alice, then? 'Troth, if such an accident were to happen, as her father would not need her help ony langer, I ken nought to hinder me to marry her mysell.
Mucklewrath, broke in upon and drowned his expostulations, taking his part with an abusive violence, which was all set down to Edward's account by those on whom it was bestowed. 'YE'LL stop ony gentleman that's the Prince's freend? for she too, though with other feelings, had adopted the general opinion respecting Waverley.
This evening the bag at his feet proved by its bulk that it contained just about one-half the rats Dannie carried. "I must set my traps in my own way," answered Dannie calmly. "If I stuck them into the water ony way and went on, so would the rats. A trap is no a trap unless it is concealed." "That's it! Go on and give me a sarmon!" urged Jimmy derisively.
I do assure you, dere is disturbance dere." "If ye're afraid of ghaists," answered the mendicant, coolly, "I'll do the job mysell, and bring your share o' the siller to ony place you like to appoint." "No no mine excellent old Mr.
And I have it from a sure hand, and that's ane wha saw it, and that's John Wilson, that was the Laird's groom, that Meg appeared to the Laird as he was riding hame from Singleside, over Gibbie's know, and threatened him wi' what she wad do to his family; but whether it was Meg, or something waur in her likeness, for it seemed bigger than ony mortal creature, John could not say.
"Look at these honds!" cried another; "Wi'n they ever be fit to go to th' factory wi' again?" Others turned up the soles of their battered shoon, to show their cut and stockingless feet. They were pacified at last; but, after the superintendent had gone away, some of the men said much and more, and "if ever he towd ony moor lies abeawt 'em, they'd fling him into th' cut."
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