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"Oh, it's juist a mainner o' speakin', sir; I was takin' a personal example. Weel, ye gang hame to the wife aboot the gloamin', an' ye open the door, an' ye says, says you, pleesant like, bein' warm aboot the wame, Guid e'en to ye, guidwife, my dawtie, an' hoos a' thing been gaim wi' ye the day? D'ye think she needs to luik roon' to ken a' aboot the Black Bull?
Thomas, as soon as he understood Mr Cupples's sacrifice, caught the delicate hand in his granite grasp�-like that with which the steel anvil and the stone block held Arthur's sword�-and said solemnly, "Ye hae done a great deed, which winna gang wantin' its reward. It canna hae merit, but it maun be pleesant in His sicht.
"It iss a pleesant night, whatever," remarked old McKay, lighting his pipe with a brand plucked from the fire which his family and the Davidsons shared in common; "an' if it wass always like this, it iss myself that would not object to be a rud savitch." "I don't know that a rud savitch is much worse than a white wan," growled Duncan junior, in an under-tone.
Forthwith the southern tyro, greatly exasperated at his own failures, burst out, "So far as I know I haven't said a word to the infernal thing, but the irritation of this beastly game is enough, and if I have any more of your confounded tongue you may repent it!" Then the caddie murmured to himself, "I dinna like 'is look. I'll better get 'm roond as pleesant as possible."
So I kept about Lossie House as long as I could, hoping to see my way to some plan or other. But when at length Mr Crathie turned me away, what was I to do but come to your ladyship? And if your ladyship will let things be as before in the way of service, I mean I canna doot, my leddy, but it'll be pleesant i' the sicht o' yer father, whanever he may come to ken o' 't, my lady."
Nevertheless, it is my opeenion that we've had treebulation enough in Rud Ruver since we came oot, an' I would be ferry gled of a luttle prosperity now if only by way of a pleesant change."
Their canoes are big and have strong men in them. They would overtake us soon and our scalps would be swinging at their belts to-morrow." "Not pleesant to think of whatever," said Fergus. "What, then, do you advise?" asked Dan. "You understand the ways of the wilderness, and we will follow your lead." The chief appeared to think for a few moments.
And she had a hantle to speir at me aboot; and it took a' the knowledge I had o' buiks in general to answer her questions. In fac I was whiles compelled to confess my ignorance, which is no pleesant whan a man wants to stan' weel wi' a bonny crater that spiers questons. Whan she gaed, I gaed efter her, followin' aboot at her i' my thochts, I mean like a hen efter her ae chucken.
She was bonnier this time than the last. She had tired o' the rosy clood, and she had on a bonny goon o' black silk, sae modest and sae rich, wi' diamond buttons up the front o' the briest o' 't. Weel, to mak a lang story short, and the shorter the better, for it's nae a pleesant ane to me, she cam aftener and aftener.
'Do you ken who you had wi' you t' other night? 'Naa, but he was a pleesant shentleman. 'It was Tennyson, the poet. 'An' what may he be? 'Oh, he is the writer o' verses such as you see i' the papers. 'Noo, to think o' that, jest a pooblic writer, an' I gied him ma best bedroom! Of Mrs. Tennyson, however, the landlord remarked, 'Oh, but she was an angel!
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