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He was 'roosed' by Craigen-Gillan; Dugald Stewart, the celebrated metaphysician, and one of the best-known names in the learned and literary circles of Edinburgh, who happened to be spending his vacation at Catrine, not very far from Mossgiel, invited the poet to dine with him, and on that occasion he 'dinnered wi' a laird' Lord Daer. Then came the appreciative letter from Dr.
You might have come a little quicker, that's all I've got to say. "We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, and a' saw MacLure wes roosed. "'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to Mrs. 'Opps "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me though it be only a headache."
"Andrew Black was an auld freend o' mine, an' a big, stoot, angry man he is kindly disposed, nae doot, when ye let him alane, but a perfe't deevil incarnate when he's roosed. He did me an ill turn ance that I've no paid him off for yet." "I suppose, then," said the officer, "that your guiding us so willingly to his cottage is in part payment of this unsettled debt?"
You might have come a little quicker, that's all I've got to say. "We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, and a' saw MacLure wes roosed. "'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to Mrs. 'Opps "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me though it be only a headache."
"Well, Jean," said Will, sympathising with the struggle it evidently cost the girl to speak to him "don't hesitate to confide in me. What would you have me do?" "Only to keep him back frae the sodgers if ye can. He's such an awfu' man to fecht when he's roosed, that he's sure to kill some o' them if he's no' killed himsel'. An' it'll be ruin to us a' an' to the Mitchells too, if "
Na, na, the grass 'ill no grow on the road atween the college and the schule-hoose o' Drumtochty till they lay me in the auld kirkyard." "Sall, Domsie was roosed," Drumsheugh explained in the Muirtown inn next market. "'Miserly wratch' was the ceevilest word on his tongue. He wud naither sit nor taste, and was half way doon the yaird afore I cud quiet him.
"Noo this roosed ma suspicions, for it's against reason for a man tae be dividing intae classes till the end o' his sermon. Tak my word, it's no chancy when a minister begins at the tail o' his subject: he'll wind a queer pirn afore he's dune.
They're bad to hold, the Gray Dogs, when they're roosed." "Ay, ma word, that they are!" corroborated Tammas, speaking from the experience of sixty years. "Once on, yo' canna get 'em off." The little man turned away. "Ye're all agin me," he said, and his voice shook. A pitiful figure he made, standing there with the water dripping from him.
The truth is, it was the fault of the Intelligence Department that nearly wrecked us, and it was McNeill's prudence and our pluck that saved us, and yet these quill-drivers at home bah!" The soldier rose in hot indignation and strode from the room. "He's a wee thing roosed!" remarked Sutherland, with a good-humoured yet slightly cynical grin. "But guid-nicht to ye, ma man.
You might have come a little quicker, that's all I've got to say. "'We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach, and a' saw MacLure was roosed. "'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to Mrs. 'Opps, "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me though it be only a headache."
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