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"I wad gang mysell, my leddy, for I could creep out at the window o' the pantry, and speel down by the auld yew-tree weel eneugh I hae played that trick ere now. I wadna stand for the walk I can walk ten miles by moonlight weel eneugh." "Is there no one you can think of, that, for money or favour, would serve me so far?" asked Edith, in great anxiety.
Say, I am getting so full of dead languages, and foreign palaver, that I shall have to have an operation on my tongue when I get home before I can speel the United States language again so you can make head or tail of it.
Ochiltree paused "I was a bauld craigsman," he said, "ance in my life, and mony a kittywake's and lungie's nest hae I harried up amang thae very black rocks; but it's lang, lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope and if I had ane, my ee-sight, and my footstep, and my hand-grip, hae a' failed mony a day sinsyne And then, how could I save you?
"Must we yield life," she said, "without a struggle? Is there no path, however dreadful, by which we could climb the crag?" "I was a bold cragsman," said Ochiltree, "once in my life; but it's lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope.
Peter couldn't walk his limbs refused their office. "Here, speel up on her back." Peter could do that. He did it, and hugged Dan round the neck with the tenacity of a shipwrecked mariner clinging to his last plank. The sturdy Celt went down the mountain as lightly as if Peter were a fly, and as if the vice-like grip of his arms round his throat were the embrace of a worsted comforter.
By climbing up the rocks close to the stream, the distance to the loch is considerably shortened; and Philips, who had often clambered to the top of the Bitch Craig, a high cliff on the Manor Water, proposed to his brother that they should "speel the height." The other, a supple agile lad, instantly consented.
Murtagh was very much inclined to deny that he could do it. "The nigger's makin' game of us, captin," he said. "It would be as much as a squirrel could do to speel up that tall trunk. Why, it's as smooth as the side of a copper-bottomed ship, an' nothin' to lay howlt on. He's jokin'." "No jokee, Mista Multa. Saloo that tlee climb soon. You help you see." "Oh, be aisy now!
"Who are you, my man, and where have we met?" I inquired. Imagine my chagrin at his replying: "In the jail at Sacramento." "How awful! What will these people think that I am an ex-jail bird?" Such were the thoughts that were running through my mind. "Yep; you gave me a speel there, and I don't forget it. Say, kids, this 'ere woman's all right.
Ochiltree paused "I was a bauld craigsman," he said, "ance in my life, and mony a kittywake's and lungie's nest hae I harried up amang thae very black rocks; but it's lang, lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope and if I had ane, my ee-sight, and my footstep, and my hand-grip, hae a' failed mony a day sinsyne And then, how could I save you?
"I wad gang mysell, my leddy, for I could creep out at the window o' the pantry, and speel down by the auld yew-tree weel eneugh I hae played that trick ere now. I wadna stand for the walk I can walk ten miles by moonlight weel eneugh." "Is there no one you can think of, that, for money or favour, would serve me so far?" asked Edith, in great anxiety.
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