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Sae, speakin' as a guid Whig, an honest freen' to you, and an anxious freen' to my ainsel', the plain fact is that I think ye'll just have to bide here wi' Andie an' the solans." "Andie," said I, laying my hand upon his knee, "this Hielantman's innocent." "Ay, it's a peety about that," said he. "But ye see, in this warld, the way God made it, we cannae just get a'thing that we want."
Faith! they think mair o' 't than ye do, I'm thinkin', efter a'; only it's no a thing to say muckle aboot. An' it's no to stan' for a'thing, efter a'. Silence followed. John sat down again, and buried his face in his hands. At length he murmured from between them, 'The lassie's weel? 'Ay, answered Robert; and silence followed again.
"It's your turn, I'll admit; but I will pay you well " Macalister interrupted him-"Ye'll maybe think it's a bit mair than fooling ere I'm done wi' ye," he said. "But speakin' o' pay... and thank ye for reminding me. Ower there they riped ma pooches, an' took a'thing I had."
"On Tuesday aifternoon John wud juist drap in tae see that a'thing wes ready, and the next aifternoon the Doctor comes himsel', an' the first thing he dis is tae lay the stick on the table an' gin he hed never said a word, tae see it lyin' there wes a veesitation. But he 's a weel-meanin' bit craturie, Maister Peebles, an' handy wi' a magic lantern.
He gazed after her long and earnestly. "It's an awfu' thing to ha'e a wuman like that angert at ye!", he said to himself when at length she had disappeared, " as bonny as she is angry! God be praised 'at he kens a'thing, an' 's no angert wi' ye for the luik o' a thing! But the wheel may come roon' again wha kens? Ony gait I s' mak' the best o' Kelpie I can. I won'er gien she kens Leddy Florimel!
Mercy save us, the auld man's gaen clean and clear wud wi' the thunner!" "Haud your tongue, ye b !" said Caleb, in the impetuous and overbearing triumph of successful invention, "a's provided now dinner and a'thing; the thunner's done a' in a clap of a hand!"
'She telt me a'thing she didna keep to hersel'. But I dinna think mysel' there's a beau in this business. The theatre wad be mair like it; she had aye a desire to be an actress. 'Indeed! said Walter, in surprise. He had never before heard such a thing hinted at, but no doubt it was true. He really knew very little about his sister, although they had always been the best of friends.
Sae, speakin' as a guid Whig, an honest freen' to you, and an anxious freen' to my ainsel', the plain fact is that I think ye'll just have to bide here wi' Andie an' the solans." "Andie," said I, laying my hand upon his knee, "this Hielantman's innocent." "Ay, it's a peety about that," said he. "But ye see in this warld, the way God made it, we cannae just get a'thing that we want."
I could neither mak the parritch, nor wash, nor spin, nor mak up a hasp o' yarn no, nor soop in the very house, to please her; and, though I tried, as far as was in my power, to do a'thing her way, it gae me mony a sleepless nicht, and cost him that's awa nae little vexation.
"Wurk is a gude handy test," suggested Jamie; "the English hae barely ae r, and the Scotch hae aboot sax in 't." "She wudna say 't, Jamie, though a' gied her a chance, speakin' aboot ae wumman daein' a'thing in the manse, sae a' fell back on church, an' that brocht oot the truth. She didna say 'chich, so she 's no English born, and she didna say 'churrrch, so she 's been oot o' Scotland.
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