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"'Deed, then, I'm unco sair afeard that your opeenion is no a'thegither that improbable," answered Sandy with a drawl of unusual solemnity. I was alone in my cell. Three years' imprisonment! Thirty-six months! one thousand and ninety-five days and twenty-four whole hours in each of them! Well I should sleep half the time: one-third at least. Perhaps I should not be able to sleep!
But the Michty cairried me throu'. An' hoo's wee Sir Gibbie? Come in I dinna ken yer name but we're jist at the door o' my bit garret. Come quaiet up the stair, an' tell me a' aboot it." "Weel, I wadna be sorry to rist a bit, for I hae tint mysel a'thegither, an' I'm some tiret," answered Donal. "I but left the Mains thestreen."
Here is yer leddyship's necklace, whilk I took fra the craig o' the struggling cratur, and here are the claes it had on, marked wi' draps o' blude that cam frae its little mouth. I show thae things no as proofs on whilk I mean a'thegither to rest, but only to testify to ye what ye sae weel ken, that what I say is true.
He took oor sins upo' him, for he cam into the middle o' them an' took them up by no sleicht o' han', by no quibblin' o' the lawyers, aboot imputin' his richteousness to us, and sic like, which is no to be found i' the Bible at a', though I dinna say that there's no possible meanin' i' the phrase, but he took them and took them awa'; and here am I, grannie, growin' oot o' my sins in consequennce, and there are ye, grannie, growin' oot o' yours in consequennce, an' haein' nearhan' dune wi' them a'thegither er this time.
''Cause theirs was a great muckle toon, wi' sic a heap o' hooses that there wasna room for kirkyards; sae they tuik them ootside the toon, and gaed aneth wi' them a'thegither. For there they howkit a lot o' passages like trances, and here and there a wee roomy like, wi' ither trances gaein frae them this gait and that.
'Ye can almost see my bit biggin', said Si, as he halted and pointed eastward of Larriston Fell to a patch of black peat and heather high on the rolling moorland. ''Tis gey ootbye, said Meg; 'clean aff the map a'thegither.
I s' hae nae sic doin's i' my hoose. 'It's nae your hoose, Betty. Dinna lee. 'Weel, I s' hae nae sic things gang by my kitchie door. There, Robert! what 'll ye mak' o' that? There's nae offence, there, I houp, gin it suldna be a'thegither my ain hoose. Tak Shargar oot o' that, or I s' awa' benn the hoose, as I tell ye.
Habits grow stronger, nature weaker, and resolution offers less and less resistance; and ye may come to make four, five, or six glasses your set; and frae that to a bottle your grave and my bairn a broken-hearted widow. "'Really, ma'am, says I, ye talked very sensibly before, but ye are awa wi' the harrows now quite unreasonable a'thegither.
"It was not a'thegither on foot, sir," answered Jeanie; "for I sometimes got a cast in a waggon, and I had a horse from Ferrybridge, and then the coach" "Well, never mind all that," interrupted the Duke "What reason have you for thinking your sister innocent?" "Because she has not been proved guilty, as will appear from looking at these papers."
But curse on the warld's gear Had it not been the week before the bridal But I am nae babe, to sit down and greet about it. If I can but find Grace, and my grandmother, and my sisters weel, I can go to the wars in Flanders, as my gude-sire did, under the Bellenden banner, wi' auld Buccleuch. At ony rate, I will keep up a heart, or they will lose theirs a'thegither."
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