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A minute after, Sir John flings the body of the jackanape down to them, and cries that the siller is fund, and that they should come up and help him. And there was the bag of siller sure aneaugh, and mony orra thing besides, that had been missing for mony a day.
'Confusions! replied the farmer, laughing in derision. 'Lord, Captain, naething confuses my head. I ance jumped up and laid the dogs on the fox after I had tumbled from the tap o' Christenbury Craig, and that might have confused me to purpose. Na, naething confuses me, unless it be a screed o' drink at an orra time.
Frank Kennedy will show you the penalties in the Act, and ye ken yourself they used to put their run goods into the Auld Place of Ellangowan up by there." "Oh, dear, Mr. Bertram, and what the waur were the wa's and the vault o' the old castle for having a whin kegs o' brandy in them at an orra time? It will be lang or the King sends me onything, or Frank Kennedy either.
The ordinary course of life, with fine air and contented minds, was to do a full share of work till seventy, and then to look after "orra" jobs well into the eighties, and to "slip awa'" within sight of ninety.
It was an orra and remarkable gathering, convened surely by the trickery of a fantastic and vagabond providence, "not a great many, but well picked," as Mac-gregor the Mottled said of his band of thieves. Over this notable congregation presided the man of the house none of your fat and genial-looking gentlemen, but a long lean personage with a lack-lustre eye.
Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. David, is a sore embarrassment. But you are doubtless quite right to adhere to him; indubitably he adhered to you. It comes we may say he was your true companion; nor less paribus curis vestigia figit, for I daresay you would both take an orra thought upon the gallows.
Now, Phadrick, listen, for you must decide betune us." "Orra, have you no other larnin' than that to argue upon? Sure if you call upon me to decide, I must give it agin Dinny. Why my judgment won't be worth a hap'orth, if he makes an ass of me!" "What matther how you decide, man alive, if he proves you to be one; sure that is all we want.
He was a professor in the Revolution warld, but he liked an orra sough of the warld, and a tune on the pipes weel aneugh at a by-time; and, bune a', he thought he had gude security for the siller he len my gudesire ower the stocking at Primrose Knowe. Away trots my gudesire to Redgauntlet Castle wi' a heavy purse and a light heart, glad to be out of the laird's danger.
No longer then perplex the breast When thoughts torment, the first are best; 'Tis mad to go, 'tis death to stay! Away, to Orra, haste away. Lapland Love Song. While his comrades were sleeping, in perfect forgetfulness of their hardships and dangers, the slumbers of Dunwoodie were broken and unquiet.
Robert took the violin, and was about to play, but the soutar stretched out his one left hand, and took it from him, laid it across his chest and his arm over it, for a few moments, as if he were bidding it farewell, then held it out to Robert, saying, 'Hae, Robert. She's yours. Death's a sair divorce. Maybe they 'll hae an orra fiddle whaur I'm gaein', though.
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