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"Ay an' I would not have thought, from the look o' you," retorted Andrew, "that ye could hae sell't yersel' to gang skulkin' aboot the hills as a spy upon the puir craters that are only seekin' to worship their Maker in peace." Without further remark Andrew Black, leaving his coat and plaid to keep company with the sword and stick, led his prisoner down the hill.
'Eh! that his puir mother, that died in grief and in doubt about him, had but lived to see this day! exclaimed some female voices. 'But we'll help him to his ain, kimmers, cried others; 'and before Glossin sail keep the Place of Ellangowan we'll howk him out o't wi' our nails!
I'm far eneuch frae jeistin'. Ye dinna ken fervour frae jokin', Jeames Johnstone." "He micht tak' the law upo's for defamin' o' 's character; and that wad be an awfu' thing for puir fowk like us, Thamas." "Aye the same thing ower again, Jeames! That's the pairt o' a colt and no o' a Christian." "But arena we tellt to be wise as serpents?" "Ye wad tak' a heap o' tellin' upo' that heid, Jeames."
Puir Cuddie! he's gane, puir fallow, that wad hae dune aught in the warld I bade him, and ne'er asked a reason an' I've had nae time to draw up wi' the new pleugh-lad yet; forby that, they say he's gaun to be married to Meg Murdieson, illfaur'd cuttie as she is." "You must find some one to go, Jenny; life and death depend upon it."
The Bailie's doing what he can to save something out of the wreck for puir Rose; but I doubt, I doubt, I shall never see her again, for I maun lay my banes in some far country.
"Saxty years o' madness! saxty years o' madness! How lang, O Lord, before thou bring these puir daft bodies to their richt mind again?" We stood watching him, and interchanging looks expecting something, we knew not what. Suddenly he sank forward on his knees, with his hands on the bars of the grate; we rushed forward, and caught him up.
It's evident this puir callant of yours will never be able to do an usefu' day's wark, unless it be as an ambassador from our Master; and I will make it my business to procure a license when he is fit for the same, trusting he will be a shaft cleanly polished, and meet to be used in the body of the kirk; and that he shall not turn again, like the sow, to wallow in the mire of heretical extremes and defections, but shall have the wings of a dove, though he hath lain among the pots."
"Na," replied she, "I dinna say that; I merely meant that he was an independent man like you, wha, if ye asked him to do it, wouldna refuse on such a ground as the want o' consent o' his wife. Oh, what will my puir faither do? I canna live if he is in sorrow and perplexity." He asked kindly for ye. Ye haena visited him for a lang time.
For this business'll not be near as dear as ye suppose not even the ship part of it." I made him a sign that his clerk was within hearing. "Hoot, ye neednae mind for Robbie," cries he. "A Stewart too, puir deevil! and has smuggled out more French recruits and trafficking Papists than what he has hairs upon his face. Why, it's Robin that manages that branch of my affairs.
What's a' this aboot Mrs Forbes and you?" "Grit fowk maunna ride ower the tap o' puir fowk like me, Miss Anderson." "She's a widow, Mr Bruce"-�Annie could not add "and childless"�-"and lays nae claim to be great fowk. It's no a Christian way o' treatin' her." "Fowk maun hae their ain. It's mine, and I maun hae't. There's naething agen that i' the ten tables.
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