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Glossin liked to tak an inventar o' the property, and gie her a receipt before the Deacon or, what she wad like muckle better, an it could be sealed up and left in Deacon Bearcliff's hands it wad mak her mind easy. She was for naething but justice on a' sides. Mrs.
The visitor unused to our ways shrinks from hearing these subjects discussed in the presence of the patient, but he himself listens philosophically, and, it would occasionally appear, with an odd pleasure in his own importance. "Eh, I sometimes think it 'ud be a mercy if th' Lord 'ud tak' him," says the middle-aged daughter of a paralysed labourer, eyeing him dispassionately.
"Soon as the wind begin to blow he cut me loose," she said. "He can't mak' the boat go. He tak' my gun and point to me and mak' me paddle." "The damned blackguard!" muttered Shand. Jack was still unconvinced. "But to-day," he said, "when my oar busted you laughed. I was lookin' at you." Bela hung her head. "He tak' me away," she murmured. "I t'ink he marry me then. I good girl.
"If they did," Thomas said, "I daur say they had mair sinse than sit down to eat their dinner in the middle o' snaw if they had a house to tak it in." "Her leddyship does na' tak the cauld easy," said John. "She has the constitution o' a horse," Thomas remarked. "Man," said John, "that shows a' that ye ken about horses: there's no a mair delicate beast on the face o' the earth than the horse.
O Baron! if you heard her fine counter-tenor admonishing Kate and Matty in the morning, you, who understand music, would tremble at the idea of hearing her shriek in the psalmody of Haddo's Hole. 'Lord forgie you, colonel, how ye rin on! But I hope your honours will tak tea before ye gang to the palace, and I maun gang and mask it for you. So saying, Mrs.
My fat'er say: 'This my house. This people my relations, my friends. My door is open to all. Then old man Gaviller is mad. He call my fat'er mal-content. He tak' away his discount." "Discount?" interrupted Ambrose. Tole frowned at the difficulty of explaining this in English. "All goods in the store marked by prices," he said slowly. "Too moch prices.
Those people are his slaves. But he pay a strong man good wages. I will tak' his wages and snap my fingers! "But wait!" cried Poly with a sparkling eye. "The 'mos' won'erful thing I see at Fort Enterprise Wa! the laktrek light! Her shine in little bottles lak pop, but not so big. John Gaviller, him clap his hands, so! and Wa! she shine! "Indians, him t'ink it is magic. But I am no fool.
"Nae doot, nae doot; have you bethocht yoursel o' what teetle ye're to tak'? Lord H n will never do; ye ken that's the teetle o' ane o' oor grandest dukes. Gudesake, for a bit session lordy, like you, to gang by that style and teetle o' ane high and michty prince! that wad be a bonny boorlesque on a' warldly honours and dignities. Weel a weel, let that be a pass over.
"There's the same sort of folks there as here, Harry," she said. "Folks are the same, here and there, the wide world ower. Tak' your chance if it comes ye'll no be losin' owt ye've got the noo if ye fail. But ye'll not fail, laddie I ken that weel." Still, resolving to tak' a chance if it came was not ma way. It's no man's way who gets anywheres in this world, I've found.
He could appropriate his grandfather's violin, to which, possibly, he might have shown as good a right as his grandmother certainly his grandfather would have accorded it him but her money was sacred. 'Shargar, ye vratch! he cried, 'fess that shillin' here direckly. Tak the twine wi' ye, and gar them gie ye back the shillin'.
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