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Yes, I remember him a good-looking fellow in coloured pince-nez. But he'd 'no Sassenach. Weems had been talking to him just before, and had found out that. And so as he and I spoke in nothing else but English, I don't see how the other could have made out what we were jabbering about." "Do you always parade all your accomplishments, dear boy? Not much.
"Faith, he's caught me again! Wait till I get the sassenach into the annals of Tageruach, the hagiographer; I'll give him enough of the Irish idiom to make him more respectful." The light was out, and the small, brave voice bidding them good night from the dark room. They groped downstairs, and tore away from the garrulity of Mother Geehan.
'You shout, said a Highlander of a neighbouring clan to Evan Dhu, 'as if the Chieftain were just come to your head. 'O, then, it is the handsome Sassenach duinhe-wassel that is to be married to Lady Flora? 'That may be, or it may not be; and it is neither your matter nor mine, Gregor.
No one bade us welcome, nor did any one offer to take our horses, from which we had alighted; and to our various inquiries, the hopeless response of "Ha niel Sassenach," was the only answer we could extract. "If I gie ye a bawbee," said he to an urchin of about ten years old, with a fragment of a tattered plaid about him, "will you understand Sassenach?"
The Tulliwuddle slogan, pronounced with the most conscientious accuracy of which a Sassenach was capable, proved as effective a curtain as he had anticipated; and amid a perfect babel of cheering and bagpiping the chieftain was led to his host's carriage. "Well, the worst of it is over," said Bunker cheerfully. The Baron groaned. "Ze vorst is only jost beginning to gommence."
But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro. Ay, they drove out the peasants in hordes. Twenty thousand of them died in the coffinships. But those that came to the land of the free remember the land of bondage.
Hamish went on, without being disconcerted by her expected displeasure. "When I left you, dearest mother, it was to go to MacPhadraick's house; for although I knew he is crafty and worldly, after the fashion of the Sassenach, yet he is wise, and I thought how he would teach me, as it would cost him nothing, in which way I could mend our estate in the world."
When Mr Craham no, not Mr Craham, ta coot man; it was ta new Minister he speak an' say to her: 'Mr MacPhail, you ought to make your prayers in Enclish, I was fery wrathful, and I answered and said: 'Mr Downey, do you tare to suppose tat God doesn't prefer ta Gaelic to ta Sassenach tongue! 'Mr MacPhail, says he, 'it'll pe for your poy I mean it How's ta lad to learn ta way of salvation if you speak to your God in his presence in a strange tongue?
Their punishments drew blood, but they did not infer dishonour. Canst thou say, the same for the laws under whose yoke thou hast placed thy freeborn neck?" "I cannot, mother I cannot," said Hamish mournfully. "I saw them punish a Sassenach for deserting as they called it, his banner. He was scourged I own it scourged like a hound who has offended an imperious master.
They tell me the Sassenach tell me that in time I shall be able without a blush to make Albert say 'darling, and even gather her up in his arms, but I begin to doubt it; the moment sees me as shy as ever; I still find it advisable to lock the door, and then no witness save the dog I 'do' it dourly with my teeth clenched, while the dog retreats into the far corner and moans. Conceive Mr.
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