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Whackbairn is, he may live as lang as you, that are his assistant and successor." "Very like," replied Butler, with a sigh; "I do not know if I should wish it otherwise." "Nae doubt, it's a very vexing thing," continued the good lady, "to be in that dependent station; and you that hae right and title to sae muckle better, I wonder how ye bear these crosses."
"If you tell them who papa is," said Florimel, "they won't do us any harm, surely!" "I 'm nane sae sure o' that. Jist stan' ye back, my lord an' my leddy, an' dinna speyk a word. I s' sattle them. They're sic villains, there nae terms to be hauden wi' them."
"I wot that's true; and I may weel tak the tale hame to mysell, that hae led a misruled and roving life. But ye were aye a canny wife. We're a' frail but ye canna hae sae muckle to bow ye down."
'In God's name, said Bertram, 'let me have what is decent, and make any charge you please. 'Aweel, aweel, that's sune settled; we'll no excise you neither, though we live sae near the custom-house.
Dang my boottons! she looks faine and handsome o' hossback sits as upraight as a dart, wi' a figure like a statty! Misthress Sharp has promised to put me behaind one o' the doors when the ladies are comin' doon to dinner, so as I may sae the young un i' full dress, wi' all her curls an' that.
I wad hae been up and awa lang syne gien it hadna been for them! 'And what wud hae been comin o' hiz wantin ye, Steenie? 'Ye wad be duin sae weel wantin me, 'at ye wud be aye wantin to be up and efter me! A body's feet's nae doobt usefu to hand a body steady, and ohn gane blawin aboot, but eh, they're unco cummarsum! But syne they're unco guid tu to hand a body ohn thoucht owre muckle o' himsel!
An' a'm no sayin' he hed na reason if I'd been meanin' a' I said. It wud be a scan'al to the pairish if a likely lad cudna win tae college for the want o' siller. Na, na, neeburs, we hae oor faults, but we're no sae dune mean as that in Drumtochty."
They were books o' divinity, to be sure, or so they ca'd them; but the serious were o' opinion there was little service for sae mony, when the hail o' God's Word would gang in the neuk of a plaid.
When every one's talking sae much of Bolsheviki and Soviets it's hard to follow what it's just all about. It's a serious subject aye, I'd be the last to say it wasna that! But, man there's sae little in this world that's no got its lighter side, if we'll but see it! I'm a great yin for consistency. Men are consistent mair than women, I think.
It was a wipe at my character which I could by nae means submit to. So says I to him, says I "Freen, ye'll observe that I'm no denyin my name I'm only disputin yer richt to demand it. I'm no ashamed o' my name, sir, although it certainly has cost me some trouble in my day. My name, sir, is William Smith sae mak o't what ye like."
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