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He came by yestreen, and I thought, 'For a' there is sae muckle o' ye, ye look as though ye walked on air!" Thomas groaned. "Muckle tae be saved, muckle tae be lost!" Jarvis Barrow spoke from the head of the table. "If fowk canna talk on the Sabbath o' spiritual things, maybe they can mak shift to haud the tongue in their chafts!
"Now we ken what he was doing in the country yestreen," said Snecky Hobart, "the which has been, bothering us sair." "The manse is fu' o' the flowers she sends him," said Tibbie Craik. "Jean's at her wits'-end to ken whaur to put them a'." "Wha is she?" It was Rob Dow who spoke. All saw he had been drinking, or they might have wondered at his vehemence.
"Te-he!" squeaked Petullo with an irritating falsetto. "You must have your bit joke, Mr. MacTaggart. Did his Grace did his Grace I was just wondering if his Grace said anything to-day about my unfortunate accident with the compote yestreen." He looked more cunningly than ever at the Chamberlain. "In his Grace's class, Mr.
The world passed away, and behold, at the voice of a trumpet, it hath come back. Beauty faded yestreen from colour into darkness, from life to death, and to-day it hath out-blossomed once again; the Sun was its father, dear gentle Night its mother...." And running with me, he clambered upon a rock and outstretched his arms to the sun as if he were a woman looking to a strong man.
How dare ye touch a feather o' my Peter's wing?" "Dinna kill the cat, sir," I interposed, reminding him that I was there to take the animal aboard the Lydia. "Man, Halcro," said Andrew, sobering down, "I wish you had taken him away yestreen. But come, let us catch the brute and away with him, for he shall not bide in this house another hour." While Mr.
"Well, Ericson, tell me, how came you to be mixed up in this affair? I thought I saw you on board that coasting schooner, the Falcon, the other night. Have you turned smuggler since then?" "No, sir; I was in the cave for something else. I was down seeking for Thora." "For Thora? What's that some sort of birds?" "Birds! No; for the lass that was lost in the snow yestreen."
"For that you are in the debt of my son Sholto, who, seeing a lady wait for you in the greenwood, climbed a tree, and there from amongst the branches he was witness of your encounter." "So " said the Douglas, grimly, "it is to Master Sholto that I am indebted somewhat." "Aye," said his father, "do not forget him. For he is a good lad and a bold, as indeed he proved to the hilt yestreen."
You may read it for yourselves, my dears, in the life of John Paul Jones. "Wae's me!" he said, with a heave of his big chest, "I reca' as yestreen the night Maxwell cam aboord. I tauld the captain 'twas a' the faut o' Maxwell. I ne'er cad bide the blellum. Dour an' din he was, wi' ae girn like th' auld hornie.
So my thoughts turned all money-wise, till it became fixture and habit with me; and I took nae time for pleasures. But when I heard of your fight yestreen, and how you begawked him that we are to mention no more, and of your skirmishes and by-falls with these gentry of your own land, my silly auld blood leapit in my briskit.
"Weel, then," the gypsy said, hoping still to soften his heart, and making up her story as she told it, "yestreen I met the shirra, and he tolled me a' I hae telled the Thrums folk this nicht." "You can scarcely expect me to believe that. Where did you meet him?" "In Glen Quharity. He was riding on a horse." "Well, I allow he was there yesterday, and on horseback.
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