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"That'll be the end o' them the day," said Dougal, as he helped Heritage to pull up the ladder and stow it away. "We've got the place to oursels, now. Forward, men, forward." He tried the handle of the House door and led the way in.
"O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!" These abominable Atheists are by no means scarce, for, says his Grace, "practical Atheists we have everywhere, if Atheism be the denial of God." Just so; that is precisely what we "infidels" have been saying for years.
This seems to me the second finest passage in English fiction, and the finest is when Jeanie Deans went to London and pleaded with the Queen for the life of her condemned sister, for is there any plea in all literature so eloquent in pathos and so true to human nature as this, when the Scottish peasant girl poured forth her heart: "When the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body and seldom may it visit your ladyship and when the hour of death that comes to high and low lang and late may it be yours oh, my lady, then it is na' what we hae dune for oursels but what we hae dune for ithers that we think on maist pleasantly.
It was their custom never to let a body leave this strond alive, and they can only hairm us by making us eat oursels to death." "Nearly a hundred years ago, wasn't it, they lived here and made counterfeit money and drew silly folks in to buy it of them?
"I didna like to express my warm approbation of you before the lads, for fear of making them jealous." "They be No!" "I ken what ye wad say, sirr, an it wad hae been a vara just an' sprightly observation. Aweel, between oursels, I look upon ye as a young gentleman of amazing talent and moedesty. Man, ye dinna do yoursel justice; ye should be in th' Academy, at the hede o' 't." "Mr.
But if making our own acquaintance would give some of us a good deal of surprise and even pain, it would also do most of us a useful turn as well. Burns put the case quite clearly in his familiar lines: O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us: It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion.
I did not say that I had done with everybody, said Anne; 'but, perhaps, whatever I might think, I might not have presumed 'O Rupert! said Lady Merton, 'Could some fay the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us 'Mamma's beloved Burn's Justice again, interrupted Rupert. 'No, no, we do not mean to let our mouths be stopped, said Lady Merton; 'such a challenge must be answered.
A Street Waifs' Benefit for Street Waifs! If the crude young person who stands with such eager feet where the brook and river meet that she has wetted her pretty shoon in her haste to be in the society of men could only have the wit to sing: "O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us,"
"Wal, we want most evrything, but I guess we kin help oursels. Hey boys?" "Callate we kin make aout tew," echoed one of his followers, not a Stockbridge man, and then as his eye caught Desire, as she stood pale and beautiful, with wild eyes and disheveled hair, by her mother, he made a dive at her saying: "Guess I'll take a kiss tew begin with."
We rarely "see oursels as ithers see us," and are inclined to regard our virtues and our vices with equal equanimity, and to paint ourselves in too alluring colours; but I will do my best to tell my tale with strict veracity, and with all the modesty I can muster.
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