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His relation to the state, secular and ecclesiastical, is best gauged by his admission that when it came to marriage, he and his wife Scottish like himself "just took ane anither's word on't." Crime, on the whole, considering the elements out of which the community had been formed, was surprisingly little in evidence. In certain regions it had a natural fertility.
"Ay," she replied, "it's a weary wark and a lanely to carry it oor lane, but it's an awfu' grief to hear o' anither's sin. An awfu' grief," she repeated to herself. "But," burst out Hughie, "I'll never be right till I tell my mother." "Ay, and then it is she would be carrying the weight o' it." "But it's against her," said Hughie, his hands going up to his face. "Oh, Mrs.
"Aye there's keepers enow, and stern dells they are, too!" Will ye no picture Mac and me, hangin' on to one anither's hands in the darkness, and feelin' the other tremble, each guilty one o' us? So it was poachin' we'd been, and never knowing it! I saw a licht across the moor. "What's yon?" I asked our host, pointing to it. "Oh, that's a keeper's hoose," he answered, indifferently.
But that very resemblance made me recognize the Scotch pretender, Rupert of Glasgow. Yet he would have been called a "braw laddie," and his handsome face showed a laughing good humor, even while he opposed me, claymore in hand. "Bide a wee, Maister Rupert Razorbill," he said lightly, lowering his sword, "before we slit ane anither's weasands.
Their dress betokened plainness of nature, though that of the Australian might indicate prosperity. Both would seem uncultured, except in heart. "A speecial occasion!" cried the one addressed as Gavin, "a speecial occasion! I should say it is verra speecial! It's twa an' forty years sin we claspit ane anither's hand man, Andra, friendship's sweet, an' God's guid!
"The man's been sorry for't this mony a day," said Thomas; "sae we maunna come ower't again, Tibbie." "Verra weel, Thamas; I s' haud my tongue. What about the laddies?" "They war fechtin' i' the verra street; ruggin' ane anither's heids, an' peggin' at ane anither's noses, an' doin' their verra endeevour to destroy the image o' the Almichty it wasna muckle o' 't that was left to blaud.
But we'll no beat them by quarrelling amang oorselves, any more than we'd ever have beaten the Hun if France and Britain had stopped the war, every sae often, to hae oot an argument o' their own. We had differences with our gude friends the French, fraw time to time. Sae did the Americans, and whiles we British and our American cousins got upon ane anither's nerves.
It's a sair hert ye hae as weel as me i' yer body this nicht; and we maun beir ane anither's burdens! The dauty may lie as we hae laid her, the nicht throuw, and naething said: there's little to be dene for her; she's a bonny clean corp as ever was, and may weel lie a week afore we put her awa'! There's no need for ony to watch her; tyke nor baudrins 'ill never come near her.
'Maybe ye cud bide ae minute till I tell ye. 'Yes, I can. What is it? 'I'm nearhan' sure that whan I lea' the parlour, grannie 'ill think I'm awa' to my prayers; and sae she'll think better o' me nor I deserve. An' I canna bide that. 'What should make you suppose that she will think so? 'Fowk kens what ane anither's aboot, ye ken, mem. 'Then she'll know you are not at your prayers. 'Na.
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