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Wisely done or not, it was truth and tenderness that made her offer her lips instead. He turned in silence, comforted for the time, though the comfort would evaporate long before the trouble would sink. "Curly!" cried Annie, and he came back. "I think that's young Robert Bruce been to Clippenstrae to speir efter me. Dinna lat him come farther. He's an unceevil fallow."
"Well, my good excuse me, but I forget your name." "Elspeth, or mair commonly, Elspie Murray. And no an ill name, doctor. The Murrays o' Perth were" "No doubt no doubt, Mrs. Elsappy." "Elspie, sir. How daur ye ca' me out o' my name, wi' your unceevil English tongue!" "Well, then, Elspie, or what the deuce you like," said the doctor, vexed out of his proprieties.
"I gaed alang to Mistress MacMorrine's, an' says I, 'Guid-mornin' till ye, mistress, an' hoo's a' wi' ye the day? for I'm a ceevil chiel when folks are ceevil to me." "'Nane the better for seein' you, Jock Gordon, says she, for she's an unceevil wife, wi' nae mair mainners nor gin she had just come ower frae Donnachadee the ill-mainnered randy.
"You ere an unceevil lad," he replied, "but strange as it may seem, I'm glad as you is sorry to see me, boy; it shows as you fears me; as you is guilty, as well you may think yerself, and you knows as Anton can bring yer to justice. You shall fear me more afore you has done, Master Joe. You 'scaped me afore, but there's no escape this time.
"That's rale unceevil o' ye, noo, Granny Whitemutch!" she said, speaking in the coaxing tones to which the Scots' language lends itself so easily, "an' it's just because I hae been sae lang at the blanket-washin', seein' till that hizzy Meg.
Tam turned the key reluctantly and admitted the visitors. "A'm no' wishin' to be unceevil, Mr. Brandspeth, but Captain Blackie will strafe ye if he finds ye here." "Rubbish! I want you to meet Mr. Laramore." Tam looked at the keen-faced young athlete and slowly extended his hand. "I think you know my sister," said the smiling youth, "and certainly we all know you."
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