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"Weel, neibor Deans, ye ken best; but I maun say that, I am sure you are glad to see my bairn again the halt's gane now, unless he has to walk ower mony miles at a stretch; and he has a wee bit colour in his cheek, that glads my auld een to see it; and he has as decent a black coat as the minister; and" "I am very heartily glad he is weel and thriving," said Mr.
Stay" she continued, stretched her head toward the gleam of light that shot through the narrow slit which served for a window "is he not there? stand out o' the light, and let me look upon him ance mair. But the darkness is in my ain een," she said, sinking back, after an earnest gaze upon vacuity "it's a' ended now. 'Pass breath, Come death!"
Partly to show my knowledge, and so relieve the party from an awkward strain, partly because I was curious, I pursued the subject. "You mean the fish?" I asked. "Whatten fish?" cried my uncle. "Fish, quo' he! Fish! Your een are fu' o' fatness, man; your heid dozened wi' carnal leir. Fish! it's a bogle!"
Luik them straucht i' the een, and say what at the moment ye think and feel; and dinna hesitate to gie them the best ye hae." "Thank you, thank you, sir! I think I understand," replied James. "If ever I speak again, I should like to begin in your school!" "Ye sall this vera nicht, gien ye like," rejoined the soutar.
Probably not many seconds had passed, but his situation was becoming intolerable, when a well-known voice rose clear above the confused murmur; and glancing to the lower end of the room, he saw Cosmo Cupples standing at the end of the table. "I ken weel eneuch, gentlemen," he said, "that I hae no richt to be here. Ye a' ken me by the sicht o' the een.
Now, if this mode of travelling was not very pleasant, the object did not particularly recommend it; for, you understand, young man, that they did not trust these poor rebel bodies to be tried by juries of their ain kindly countrymen, though ane would have thought they would have found Whigs enough in Scotland to hang us all; but they behoved to trounce us away to be tried at Carlisle, where the folk had been so frightened, that had you brought a whole Highland clan at once into the court, they would have put their hands upon their een, and cried, "hang them a'," just to be quit of them.
"Yer een and lugs are better than mine, then," returned the ill-favoured comrade, who answered, when among his friends, to the name of Big Swankie, otherwise, and more correctly, Jock Swankie. "Od!
I maun be settin' out back the morn, if the Lord spares me." I mindit fine that the body wad tak nae drink like an honest man, but maun aye draibble wi' burn water, and noo he had got the thing on the brain. I never spak a word, for the maitter was bye ony mortal's aid. For lang he sat quiet. Then he lifts his heid and looks awa ower the grey sea. A licht for a moment cam intil his een.
It was a painful operation, for his thatch was a stubborn mat of crisp waves and knotty tangles to his plumy tail and down to his feathered toes. He braced himself and took the punishment without a whimper, and when it was done he stood cascaded with dark-silver ripples nearly to the floor. "The bonny wee!" cried Mistress Jeanie. "I canna tak' ma twa een aff o' 'im."
Sir Giles and Harry were only admitted to the outer court, whence the portress went with their message of inquiry. They waited a long time, and then the Greystone lay Sister who had been the companion of their journey came back in company with the portress. 'Benedicite, dear gentles, she said; 'oh, you are a sight for sair een.
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