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"Why, Grizel," said the sage, somewhat abashed at this unexpected attack, "I thought I made a very fair bargain." "A fair bargain! when ye gied the limmer a full half o' what she seekit! An ye will be a wife-carle, and buy fish at your ain hands, ye suld never bid muckle mair than a quarter. And the impudent quean had the assurance to come up and seek a dram But I trow, Jenny and I sorted her!"

Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin' auld Provost Jervie's time and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.

She spak sair against me when the King's advocate claimed for his Majesty my auld turret o' Gilnockie. I owe that quean an auld score. How lang do you want her lodged in Græme's Tower?" "Three months would maybe change her tongue," replied the Warden; "but the enterprise seems desperate, Will." "Desperate! my Lord," replied the other "that word's no kenned on the Borders.

The horseman delivered one last vicious cut with his whip and came on at a canter. 'My father! He reigned back ten yards and dismounted. The old man was off his pony in an instant, and they embraced as do father and son in the East. Good Luck, she is never a lady, But the cursedest quean alive, Tricksy, wincing, and jady Kittle to lead or drive. Greet her she's hailing a stranger!

Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin' auld Provost Jervie's time and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.

Cold-blooded, iron-hearted fanatic deceitful villain! Cuddie, fetch refreshments food wine, if possible whatever you can find." "Whisky is gude eneugh for her," muttered Cuddie; "ane wadna hae thought that gude meal was sae scant amang them, when the quean threw sae muckle gude kail-brose scalding het about my lugs."

After that, they abode no long while ere they departed from Rome and took their leave of the Apostle, who much had honoured them; and he gave them his blessing, and commended them to God. So went they in great joy and in great pleasance, and praised God and his mother and the hallows, both carl and quean, and gave thanks for the goods which they had done them.

But 'twas out of the frying-pan, as the word goeth. For the boatman had scarce told us the matter, and that it was a man and a woman for stealing glazed windows out of housen, and that the man was hanged at daybreak, and the quean to be drowned, when lo! they did fling her off the bridge, and fell in the water not far from us. And oh! Margaret, the deadly splash! It ringeth in mine ears even now.

As matters are with me now, I am an altered man for these many, many months; and so, my quean, you and I must part sooner than perhaps a light o' love such as you expected to part with a likely young fellow." Louise wept silently, with her eyes still cast on the ground, as one who felt an insult which she had not a right to complain of.

"Haud your peace, ye auld jade," said Dumbiedikes; "the warst quean e'er stude in their shoon may ca' you cousin, an a' be true that I have heard. Jeanie, my woman, gang into the parlour but stay, that winna be redd up yet wait there a minute till I come down to let ye in Dinna mind what Jenny says to ye."