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He pulled a couple of sandbags off the parapet and seated himself on them. "To go on wi' this begging pardon business," he said, "If a couple o' ye will just stand ower him wi' your fixed bayonets.... Thank ye.
An' I suppose it's natural, considerin' ye're little more than a child, an' I'm a'most old enough to be yer father, he retorted, with blunt bitterness. 'But ye know yer mother's took that dislike t' me. She'd never abide the sight o' me at Hootsey. He remained silent a moment, moodily reflecting. 'She'd jest ha't' git ower it. I see nought in that objection, he declared. 'Nay, Mr.
"If you begin to pay compliments, Marjorie, I 'll tell you what I think of that cap; for the pink is just the very shade for your complexion, and it's a perfect shape." "Ma young minister, Maister Carmichael, seleckit it in Muirtown, an' a' heard that he went ower sax shops to find one to his fancy; he never forgets me, an' he wrote me a letter on his holiday.
"And then," quo' he, "ye'll be ill-sorted to hear that he's like to be in the prison at Portanferry, if he disna tak a' the better care o' himsell, for there's been warrants out to tak him as soon as he comes ower the water frae Allonby.
"We'll follow the track o' Earnscliff's horses ower the waste," cried one Elliot. "I'll prick them out through the blindest moor in the Border, an there had been a fair held there the day before," said Hugh, the blacksmith of Ringleburn, "for I aye shoe his horse wi' my ain hand." "Lay on the deer-hounds," cried another "where are they?"
Saunders breathed on his buckle and polished it with the tail of his coat, after which he rubbed it on his knee. Then he held it up critically in a better light. Still it did not please him, so he breathed on it once more. "'Deed, an' wha could expect it? It's no in youth to think o' thae things no till it's ower late.
Robbie had risen once more, and was tramping across the floor in his excitement. "What's come over Robbie?" whispered Reuben to Matthew. "What fettle's he in doldrums, I reckon." "Tak na note on him. Robbie's going off agen I'm afeart. He's broken loose. This awesome thing is like to turn the lad's heed, for he'd the say ower it all." "Come, lass, quick with the ale."
He was ower deep in our secrets, that's true; and had it not been so, Stirling and Edinburgh Castles would have been baith in our hands by this time, or briefly hereafter, whilk is now scarce to be hoped for. But there are ower mony engaged, and far ower gude a cause to be gien up for the breath of a traitor's tale, and that will be seen and heard of ere it be lang.
'He's ower guid to the likes o' me. And she lifted up her voice and wept. She had been informed of his coming, but she had not expected him till the evening; he was much altered, and old age is slow. He had hardly placed her in her chair, when Betty came in. If she had shown him respect before, it was reverence now.
"The moment the priest's horse set fut upo' the drawbrig, the puir leddy gae anither ougsome cry, a hantle waur nor the first, an' up gat a suddent roar an' a blast o' win' that maist cairried the castel there aff o' the cliff intill the watter, an' syne cam a flash o' blue licht an' a rum'lin'. Efter that, a' was quaiet: it was a' ower afore the priest wan athort the coortyaird an' up the stair.
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