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Flockhart, sighing, as she observed the direction of his eyes, 'the puir Colonel bought a new ane just the day before they marched, and I winna let them tak that ane doun, but just to brush it ilka day mysell; and whiles I look at it till I just think I hear him cry to Callum to bring him his bonnet, as he used to do when he was ganging out.
I wad fain hae gotten a fancy oot o' my heid that's been there this mony a lang day; but please yersel', mem, gien ye winna be neebourly." "Ca cannie! ca cannie! "Dinna anger me ower sair, for I am but mortal.
"Hoot, hoot! dinna say sae, bairn," added her mother; "there is nae saying what may betide ye yet. Ye think ye winna be married before ye are six and twenty; but, truly, my dear, there has mony a mair unlikely ship come to land. Now, what wad ye think o' the young laird o' Harden?" "Mother! mother!" said Agnes, "wherefore do ye mock me? I never saw ye do that before.
He slipped the cross into her hand. "Repeat after me," he said. "I promise I will get well, Dannie." "I promise I will get well, Dannie, if I can," said Mary. "Na," said Dannie. "That winna do. Repeat what I said, and remember it is on the cross. Life hasna been richt for ye, Mary, but if ye will get well, before the Lord in some way we will make it happier. Ye will get well?"
"He was weel eneuch," said Birse, "for a heap o' fowk speired at Jean if he had ta'en his porridge as usual, and she admitted he had. But the lassie was skeered hersel', and said it was a mercy Mrs. Dishart wasna in the kirk." "Why was she not there?" I asked anxiously. "Oh, he winna let her out in sic weather." "I wish you would tell me what happened," I said to Elspeth.
"Ye are welcome to your ain opinion, sir," said the sexton; "but ye winna persuade me that he did his duty, either to himsell or to huz puir dependent creatures, in guiding us the gate he has done; he might hae gien us life-rent tacks of our bits o' houses and yards; and me, that's an auld man, living in you miserable cabin, that's fitter for the dead than the quick, and killed wi' rheumatise, and John Smith in my dainty bit mailing, and his window glazen, and a' because Ravenswood guided his gear like a fule!"
Boh may be ye winna loike Mester Ruchot to hear what ey ha' getten to tell ye." "I will leave you," said Richard, about to depart. "Oh! no, no!" cried Alizon, "she can have nothing to say which you may not hear." "Shan ey go back to Granny Demdike, an tell her yo're too proud to receive her message?" asked the child. "On no account," whispered Richard. "Do not let her anger the old hag."
But I may call them as I may, "Youth winna return, nor the days of lang syne." January 26. I have Skene and Mr. M'Culloch of Ardwell, to the relief of my spirits and the diminishing of my time. Mr. Laidlaw joined us at dinner. Bitter cold. January 27. So fagged with my frozen vigils that I slept till after ten.
"I winna greit, Cosmo; I'll say YET, the will o' the Lord be dune, though it be sair upo' me the noo, whan I haena a drap o' milk aboot the place to set afore my only-begotten son whan he comes hame to me frae a far country!
"I will not I will not," replied Effie; "and if there were as mony dances the morn's night as there are merry dancers in the north firmament on a frosty e'en, I winna budge an inch to gang near ane o' them." "Dance!" echoed Jeanie Deans in astonishment. "O Effie, what could take ye to a dance?" It is very possible, that, in the communicative mood into which the Lily of St.
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