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Mr Stewart was on his feet instantly. "I maun awa'. Tak care o' Phemy," he said hurriedly. "Na, na, sir," said Malcolm, laying his hand on his arm; "there's nae sic hurry. But ye hae garred mair fowk nor me luik, an' that's the pity o' 't." "I tauld ye, sir, ye sudna cry oot," said Phemy. "I couldna help it," said Stewart apologetically.
'Hoot, my leddy, says he, 'the puir thing was a human cratur! 'Gien she had been a God's angel, says she, 'ye had no richt to keep me waitin'. 'Gien she had been an angel, says he, 'there wad hae been little occasion, but the wuman stude in want o' help! 'Gien 't had been to save her life, ye sudna hae keepit me waitin', says she.
"If they don't know what they are about, how can you be so foolish as talk of their design?" "Ilka thing has a design, an' gien it dinna ken't itsel', that's jist whaur yer true an' lawfu' personification comes in. There's no rizon 'at a poet sudna attreebute till a thing as a conscious design that which lies at the verra heart o' 'ts bein', the design for which it's there.
And with that she slipped from the saddle, threw her arms round Aggie's neck, and kissed her. Aggie returned her embrace with simple truth, then drawing gently away, said, putting her hand before her eyes as if she found the sun too strong, "It's verra weel for you, my lady; but it's some sair upo' me; for I tellt him he sudna merry his mither, an' ye're full as auld as I am." Joan gave a sigh.
Lat her gang whaur she likes, and gin she does what she sudna do, I'll tak a' the wyte o' 't." Now there was no great anxiety about Annie's welfare in the mind of Mr or Mrs Bruce.
Eh! but she was a bonnie wuman as ever I saw, an' that quaiet! It's my belief she never thocht aboot her ain beowty frae week's en' to week's en', and that's no sayin' little is 't, Aggy? 'I never preten't ony richt to think aboot sic, returned Miss Lammie, with a mild indignation. 'That's richt, lass. Od, ye're aye i' the richt though I say 't 'at sudna.
A tried ta hit 'em all baith gert an lile." There was a pause, then he added placidly: "A likely suden't suit them varra weel. Theer was a mon beside me, as pooed me down afoor a'd hofe doon." "Tha sudna taak o' 'paid preests, Daffady," said Mrs. Mason severely. "Tha doosna understand nowt o' thattens."
"An' what for sudna I be jist like the lave?" returned Peter, fiercely.
He's jist a Jonah in oor ship, an Achan in oor camp. But I sudna speyk sae to ane that's no a member." "Never ye min'. I'm auld eneuch to hae learned to haud my tongue. But we'll turn till a better subjec'. Jist tell me hoo ye made Alec peril's life for conscience sake. Ye dinna burn fowk here for nae freely haudin' by the shorter Carritchis, do ye?" And hereupon followed the story of the flood.
Sudna ye hae come faster up yoursells, instead of flyting at huz?" This excuse would hardly have passed current; but Kettledrummle, who now awoke from his trance of terror, and was known to, and reverenced by, most of the wanderers, together with Mause, who possessed their appropriate language as well as the preacher himself, proved active and effectual intercessors.
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