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"It would have cost him sae little fash," she said to herself; "for I hae seen his pen gan as fast ower the paper, as ever it did ower the water when it was in the grey goose's wing. Wae's me! maybe he may be badly but then my father wad likely hae said somethin about it Or maybe he may hae taen the rue, and kensna how to let me wot of his change of mind.
"Nae doot Glen Lynden has come off better than ither places, for we've managed to haud oor ain no' that ill, but wae's me for the puir folk o' the low country! We've taken a gude slice o' land frae the thievin' craters, for it's said Sir Benjamin D'Urban has annexed all the country between the Kei and the Keiskamma to the colony.
In the dramatic scene when Jeanie Deans faces the wretched George Staunton, who has so shamed the household, she exclaims: "O sir, did the Scripture never come into your mind, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay it? " "Scripture!" he sneers, "why I had not opened a Bible for five years." "Wae's me, sir," said Jeanie "and a minister's son, too!"
And all his underlings followed his example by pulling their red forelocks and scraping their right feet backwards. "Your hamlet seems to be deserted to-day, landlord. What fair or what else is going on?" inquired the young duke, as he followed the bowing host to the neat little parlor of the inn. "Ah! wae's the day! Dinna your grace ken!
He wrote several poems, but the only one which has survived is his Jacobite ballad, Wae's me for Prince Charlie. Poet and dramatist, was a London merchant, and M.P. for Weymouth. A scholarly man with a taste for literature, he wrote two poems in blank verse, Leonidas , and The Athenaid . Though not without a degree of dignity, they want energy and interest, and are now forgotten.
I like it far better than the town, for there isna a wheen duddie bairns to be crying after ane, as if ane were a warld's wonder, just because ane maybe is a thought bonnier and better put-on than their neighbours though, Jeanie, ye suld never be proud o' braw claiths, or beauty neither wae's me! they're but a snare I ance thought better o'them, and what came o't?"
Ye'll hae to gang up an' gie them the message." "So I will; but that's like somethin' to eat, I think?" Spink pointed to the soup. "Ay, it's a' we've got, so let's fa' to; and haste ye, lad. It's a sair heart she'll hae this night wae's me!"
"Then it's doctrine wae's me, wae's me! I wuss it had been the lasses. What wull his faither say? Gin it had been ill-doin', he micht hae pitten it doon to the sins o' yer youth; but ill- doctrine he canna forgie. "John, John, indeed I cannot allow it. Besides, you're a sailor- man, an' even in Galloway they do not have kirns till the corn's ripe," replied Ralph with a smile.
"And now we're settled ance mair," said: Cuddie to his mother, "and if we're no sae bien and comfortable as we were up yonder, yet life's life ony gate, and we're wi' decent kirk-ganging folk o' your ain persuasion, mither; there will be nae quarrelling about that." "Of my persuasion, hinnie!" said the too-enlightened Mause; "wae's me for thy blindness and theirs.
Then a furious gust arose and passed away, a dark cloud covered the sky as night fell, and soon boats and whale were utterly lost to view. "Wae's me!" cried the big Scotch mate, as he ran up and down the quarter-deck wringing his hands, "what is to be done noo?"
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