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"Eh, sirs!" he said, having accomplished this task, "look out yonder, Milnwood; saw ye ever mortal fight like the deevil Claver'se? Yonder he's been thrice doun amang them, and thrice cam free aff. But I think we'll soon be free oursells, Milnwood. Inglis and his troopers look ower their shouthers very aften, as if they liked the road ahint them better than the road afore."
But my son Saunders was readin' to me the ither nicht in a fule history buik, an' there it said that amang the Papists they used to hae fowk that didna do as they did an' believe as they believed. What say ye to that?" Mrs. Mowdiewort's lecture on church history was not at all appreciated by the session. The minister rose. "We will close this sederunt," he said; "we can mak' nocht o' these two.
But it's not so much for that, as to gie him a lesson not to let his tongue gallop ower freely about his betters. I trow he will hae lost the best pen-feather o' his wing before to-morrow morning. Farewell, Elshie; there's some canny boys waiting for me down amang the shaws, owerby; I will see you as I come back, and bring ye a blithe tale in return for your leech-craft."
"Little good, little ill, like a spale amang parritch, was that chap Trummle," said Jamie Howison. "I am sorry I have been so short a time in the district, so that I am so imperfectly known to you, but I hope in time to show that I deserve your confidence," said Francis. "But what about the ballot?" asked Jamie Howison. "I have not quite made up my mind about the ballot," said Francis.
'Say? echoed the postilion, 'he said naething at a'; he just stared at them as they walked round the loch upon the ice, as if he could have eaten them, and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word, or gave another glance at the bonspiel, though there was the finest fun amang the curlers ever was seen; and he turned round and gaed aff the loch by the kirkstile through Woodbourne fir-plantings, and we saw nae mair o' him.
Wauverley, ye never kend that a' the eggs that were sae weel roasted at supper in the Ha'-house were aye turned by our Davie? there's no the like o' him ony gate for powtering wi' his fingers amang the het peat-ashes and roasting eggs. Davie all this while lay with his nose almost in the fire, nuzzling among the ashes, kicking his heels, mumbling to himself, turning the eggs as they lay in the hot embers, as if to confute the proverb, that 'there goes reason to roasting of eggs, and justify the eulogium which poor Janet poured out upon
There are some no bad folk amang the gipsies too, to be sic a gang, added Dandie; 'if ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again, I 'll gie her something to buy tobacco. I have a great notion she meant me very fair after a'.
I'm thinking a good deal of him mysel; and with your permission, Shaws, I'll be getting a wee yont amang the bents, so that I can see what way James goes." One after another went, till I was left alone beside the breakfast table; James to Dunkirk, Alan dogging him, Catriona up the stairs to her own chamber.
"Ay," said Elspeth; but rather from a general idea of misfortune, than any exact recollection of what had happened, "there has been distress amang us of late I wonder how younger folk bide it I bide it ill.
And she went on muttering to herself with the wayward spitefulness of age "They maun hae lordships and honours, nae doubt set them up, the gutter-bloods! and deil a gentleman amang them." Then again addressing the sitting magistrate, "Will your honour gie me back my puir crazy bairn? His honour! I hae kend the day when less wad ser'd him, the oe of a Campvere skipper."
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