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There's timber and a warld o' things aboot the place as wants proteection on behalf o' the heir. If your leddieship is minded to be quit o' my sarvices, I'll find a maister in Mr. Camperdoon, as'll nae alloo me to be thrown out o' employ. Coosins!" "Walk off from this!" said Frank Greystock, coming forward and putting his hand upon the man's breast. Mr.
"If you ask my will," he replied, with some pomposity, for who that has just gained an object of ambition can be humble? "it is that you shut up this whisky shop, and betake yourself to a more decent way of life in my parish." "Alloo me to tell ye, sir, ye're the first 'at ever daured threep my hoose was no a dacent ane." "I said nothing about your house.
That my father had a lass-bairn o' 's ain shawed mair nor onything the trust your father pat in 'im! Francie, the verra grave wud cast me oot for shame 'at I sud ance hae thoucht o' sic a thing! Man, it wud maist drive yer leddy-mither dementit! 'It's my business' Kirsty, wha I merry! 'And I houp yer grace 'll alloo it's pairt my business wha ye sail not merry and that's me, Francie!
"Your servant, all; an' if ye'll alloo it, Mr. Foster's friends are mine." Lawrence laughed. "A very proper sentiment, and a true Borderer! But you haven't told us how you found him, Jake." "It's a long tale," said Foster. "Besides, I'm hungry. So I expect is Pete." Lucy Stephen rang a bell. "Tea ought to be ready. We often take it here."
Mistress Faukner, honest lady, an' lang hae I kent her, 's no sae auld a frien' to you, Mr. Ericson, as oorsel's nae offence to her, ye ken. A'body canna be frien's to a'body, ane as lang 's anither, ye ken. ''Deed I maun alloo, Miss Naper, interposed Robert, 'it's only fair. Ye see, Mr. Ericson, I cud see as muckle o' ye almost, the tae way as the tither.
As we were afraid to offend him, we went to work with the powder, and dried it in the sun, and prepared our muskets for battle. The next morning we launched 15 or 16 canoes, containing in all about 200 natives, and set sail for Alloo; where we arrived and landed, and proceeded to a village in order to give battle to the enemy.
"What ken ye aboot him, gin it be a fair queston?" "I hae kent him, sir, sin he was a bairn. I perilled his life�-no my ain�-to gar him do his duty. I trust in God it wad hae been easier for me to hae perilled my ain. Sae ye see I do ken aboot him." "Weel," said Mr Cupples, to whom the nature of Thomas had begun to open itself, "I alloo that. Whaur do ye bide? What's yer name?
Because I mak nae secret o' what I hae nae reason to be ashamed o'. I dinna ken how you feel, Mr Waldie, but I think it's the pleasantest thing on earth to be, as it were, compelled to alloo yersel to be taen care o', and defended, and nursed, and petted, and ruled, by a guid wife. In my opinion, to be loved by a wife is only the half o' oor right.
Having in due form and with suitable solemnity commended his soul to the divine mercy, he, after a brief pause, assumed his ordinary colloquial tone of voice, and nodding humorously to his old friend, observed "And noo, Jammie, I think ye'll alloo that I hae checkmated you for ance." In one of his Imitations of Horace, Pope says In the same spirit the poet penned the lines of the 'Dunciad'
'Weel, that's something as I think. An' until I'm sure that a man has had the trowth shawn till him in sic a way 's that, I canna alloo mysel' to think that hooever he may hae sinned, he has finally rejeckit the trowth.
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