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I called them a' together, ye ken, and tauld them I was gratefu' to them for the way they'd worked wi' me and for me, and wanted to gie 'em something they could ha' to remember me by. "Sae here's my picture, laddies," I said, "and when I come again next year I'll sign them for you." Weel, noo, that's true enough, nae doot I've done just that, more than the ane time. Did I no gie them money, too?
That she should be doing so on a Sunday would have shocked few in Scaurnose at that time, for the fisher folk then made but small pretensions to religion; and for his part Joseph Mair could not believe that the Almighty would be offended "at seein' a bairn sittin' douce wi' her playocks, though the day was his." "Weel, Phemy, ye're busy!" said Malcolm.
He folded and sealed this note and delivered it to Cuthbert, saying: "Conceal it somewhere about your person, and go to the warden's office and ask leave to see your old fellow-servant, and no doubt you will get it. And when you see him deliver this note secretly, as I told you." "Verra weel, me laird," said the old man, going and knocking on the door of the cell to be let out.
Sae haud up your heart, an' I'se warrant we'll do a' weel eneugh yet." When employed as a supervisor on the coast of Galloway, at a time when the immunities of the Isle of Man rendered smuggling almost universal in that district, this gentleman had the fortune to offend highly several of the leaders in the contraband trade, by his zeal in serving the revenue.
"Ye'll excuse me, Fergus," replied Donal, " for the sake o' auld langsyne, whan I was, as I ever will be, sair obligatit till ye but i' that ye say noo, ye're sair wrang: ye wasna speykin' poetically, though I ken weel ye think it, or ye wadna say 't; an' that's what garred me tak ye up.
'Weel, weel, mem; gin ye'll keep it till I speir for 't, that'll du weel eneuch, answered Robert, with a smile. He laboured diligently; and his progress corresponded to his labour. It was more than intellect that guided him: Falconer had genius for whatever he cared for.
But that ane should look at her in presence of her sister! He maun be mair of a monk than a man! Such was, in truth, Jean's own opinion when she flounced into her chamber at the Priory and turned upon her sister. 'Weel, Elleen, and I hope ye've had your will, and are a bit shamed, taking up his Grace so that none by yersell could get in a word wi' him.
"Weel, weel! we'll see," said Malcolm. On his way back to the House, he knocked at Mrs Catanach's door, and said a few words to her which had a remarkable effect on the expression of her plump countenance and deep set black eyes. When he reached home, he ran up the main staircase, knocked at the first door, opened it, and peeped in.
"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.
I got them not more than an hour ago." The smugglers glanced at each other and were struck dumb; but they were now too much on their guard to let any further evidence of surprise escape them. "Weel, I wush ye success, sirs," said Swankie, sitting down to his oar. "It's likely ye'll come across mair if ye try Dickmont's Den. There's usually somethin' hidden there-aboots."
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