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"He wadna gie a bodle to save us frae famishing," said Hobbie; "and, if he did, the bread that I bought wi't would stick in my throat, when I thought it was part of the price of puir auld Scotland's crown and independence." "There's the Laird o' Dunder, ane o' the auldest families in Tiviotdale."
I hae keepit the house since I was seventeen years auld, and I'm no needing help frae onybody." "Then whatna for was I brought here, frae my ain bit o' heather roof? It will ill set you to put your fayther's auldest sister under your thumb. Folks will talk ill o' you." "They will talk as they like to talk, and it's mair often ill than gude. But the house is mine, and I'll guide it yet.
"No, I'm no' exactly a'thegether a Hielan'man," Mungo admitted, "though I hae freends con-nekit wi' the auldest clans, and though I'm, in a mainner o' speakin', i' the tail o' Doom, as I was i' the tail o' his faither afore him peace wi' him, he was the grand soger! but Hielan' or Lowland, we gied them their scuds at the 'Forty-five. Scots regiments, sir, a' the warld ower, hae had the best o't for fechtin', marchin', or glory.
"Very well. I don't mind hearing it again." He wanted to see how Malcolm would embellish it. "It seems to me," said Malcolm, "that this ane aboot Lossie Hoose' an' yon ane aboot Colonsay Castel, are verra likly but twa stalks frae the same rute. Ony gate, this ane aboot the warlock maun be the auldest o' the twa. Ye s' hae 't sic 's I hae 't mysel'. Mistress Coorthoup taul' 't to me."
A number o' respectable people began to take an interest in our weelfare; and business came so thick upon me that I had to get twa other looms, and found constant employment, not only for my auldest laddie, whom I was bringing up to the business, but also for a journeyman.
"Ane o' the limmers has been sapping and undermining Coberston wi' her hellish scandal. What's the lurdon's name, my Lord?" "Gibson of Durie," rejoined Traquair. "Ah! a weel-kenned scandalous runt that," replied Will. "She's the auldest o' the hail fifteen, if I'm no cheated Leddie President o' the coterie.
Look how the setting sun breaks through yon cloud that's been darkening the lift a' day. See where the first stream o' light fa's it's upon Donagild's round tower the auldest tower in the Castle o' Ellangowan that's no for naething! See as it's glooming to seaward abune yon sloop in the bay that's no for naething neither.
They wad gie us whinstanes for loaves, if it would serve their ain vanity, and yet they expect us to be as gratefu', as they ca' it, as if they served us for true love and liking." "And that's truly said," answered her companion. "But, Aislie Gourlay, ye're the auldest o' us three did ye ever see a mair grand bridal?"
My loaf in my lap, my penny in my purse, Thou art ne'er the better, and I'm ne'er the worse." "That's right, Annie," said the paralytic woman; "God send us a green Yule and a fat kirkyard!" "But I wad like to ken, Luckie Gourlay, for ye're the auldest and wisest amang us, whilk o' these revellers' turn it will be to be streikit first?"
"'Ned Thomson, says they. "'And wha was that bonny lassie, asked I, 'that gaed in just the now? "'He! he! he! the bairns laughed, and gaed me nae answer. So I put my question to them again, and ane o' the auldest o' them, a lassie about thirteen, said 'It was the maister's daughter, sir, the laird's bonny Jenny if ye like, I'll gang in and tell her that a gentleman wishes to speak to her.
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