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"I'st true Elspeth scuffled wi' her feet at the laist head and gar'd him close?" "A'll neither deny nor affirm, Drumsheugh; but there's nae doot when the mune began tae shine aboot nine, and Mactavish started aff on the Devil, somebody scrapit aside me. It wesna Jeems; he daurna for his life; and it wesna me. A'll no say but it micht be Elspeth, but she wes sair provokit.
"The puir bairn!" said auld Edie, "an he sleeps in this damp hole, he'll maybe wauken nae mair, or catch some sair disease. It's no the same to him as to the like o' us, that can sleep ony gate an anes our wames are fu'. Sit up, Maister Lovel, lad! After a's come and gane, I dare say the captain-lad will do weel eneugh and, after a', ye are no the first that has had this misfortune.
"I am amaist persuaded it's the ghaist of a stane-mason see siccan band-statnes as he's laid i An it be a man, after a', I wonder what he wad take by the rood to build a march dyke. There's ane sair wanted between Cringlehope and the Shaws.
When Hillocks' brother so far forgot himself as to "slip awa" at sixty, that worthy man was scandalized, and offered laboured explanations at the "beerial." "It's an awfu' business ony wy ye look at it, an' a sair trial tae us a'. A' never heard tell o' sic a thing in oor family afore, an' it's no easy accoontin' for't.
"Na, na, Ringan," cried his friends, "haud sae, man, haud sae. Ye'll be clean dung-ower; ye're ower sair spent to fecht thenow." But this only goaded Ringan the more. "As the Lord liveth, he shall lick the dust. Hinder me not, friends, withstand me not; I maun do battle with this Philistine." And with that, he rushed into the street, broadsword in hand. "Diaoul!
"She'd have nane so many to share. I know ye think I'm old-fashioned, Mr. Keppel and it may be I am; but I do assure you I would be sair harassed, if stricken to my bed which, please God, I won't be to receive the veesits of a pairsonable young bachelor " "Er Mrs. M'Gregor!" interrupted Stuart, coughing in mock rebuke "quite so!
"Nae doubt, neighbour," he said, "it's a sair thing to hae to do wi' courts of law, unless it be to improve ane's knowledge and practique, by waiting on as a hearer; and touching this unhappy affair of Effie ye'll hae seen the dittay, doubtless?" He dragged out of his pocket a bundle of papers, and began to turn them over.
"I suppose, because I know nobody here. It seems so very hard to get teaching in London. But I beg your pardon." "I beg yours," said Miss Balquidder not without a certain dignity "for asking questions of a stranger. But I was once a stranger here myself, and had a 'sair fecht, as we say in Scotland, before I could earn even my daily bread.
"Salemina, dear," I said penitently, kissing her grey hair, "I apologise: you are not absolutely ignorant about Love, after all, when you call him the master architect; and that is very lovely and very true about the oak-tree and the sunshine." "Love, I maun gang to Edinbrugh, Love, I maun gang an' leave thee!" She sighed right sair, an' said nae mair But "O gin I were wi' ye!" Andrew Lammie.
Just then the wheelwright roared out, with one hand to his cheek: "Sair rah! Ale. Here you, Jake, go and fetch it." The short thickset lad of nineteen, who now came from behind the house with a fagot of wood, threw it down, and went in, to come back in a few moments with a large brown jug, at the top of which was some froth, which the wind blew off as the vessel was handed to the wheelwright.
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