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'Aweel, what for should I not pleasure the young gentlemen? I'll just drink to honest folk at hame and abroad, and deil ane else. And then but you have heard it before, Mrs. Crosbie? 'Not so often as to think it tiresome, I assure ye, said the lady; and without further preliminaries, the laird addressed Alan Fairford.
What can we do for you, lad?" "For myself nothing, sire," replied Richard. "But for another meikle is that what ye wad hae us infer?" cried the King, with a smile. "Aweel, the lassie shall hae strict justice done her; but for your ain sake we maun inquire into the matter.
She drew up wi' Singleside, nae doubt, when she was his housekeeper, and it was a sair vex and grief to a' her kith and kin. But he acknowledged a marriage, and satisfied the kirk; and now I wad ken frae you if we hae not some claim by law? 'Not the shadow of a claim. 'Aweel, we're nae puirer, said Dandie; 'but she may hae thought on us if she was minded to make a testament.
"Aweel, it wad be about half-past nine o'clock. I went wi' the dressing-case to the Arondelle Arms, where his lairdship and his lairdship's feyther, the auld duk' were biding. The hostler telt me that his lairdship had gane for a walk o'er the brig to Castle Lone. Sae I were fain to wait there for him." "How long did you wait?" "Na lang.
'Aweel, said the Minister, breaking the silence, 'I micht be offerin' hospitality to Macmanus, the banker; 'twould be the ceevil thing to do, but if he comes he's my guest, ye ken I maunna hae ony "frightfulness"; an' the cuddy wull be locked up. 'Ay, responded the other, 'an' sae wull the goat be.
"He was right enough when Elshie gae him his feed this morning; but when I went in enow to put the harness on, he was lying deid in the loose-box. The batts it's like." For a moment Gourlay stared with the open mouth of an angry surprise, forgetting to take down his razor. "Aweel, Peter," he said at last, and Peter went away. The loss of his pony touched Gourlay to the quick.
"Aweel," said Sim, snuffing profoundly, "if I were to offer an opeenion, it would not be conscientious. For the plain fac' is, Mr. St. Ivy, that I div not ken. We have had crackit heids and rowth of them ere now; and we have had a broken leg, or maybe twa; and the like of that we drover bodies make a kind of a practice like to keep among oursel's.
"And had just cruppen to the gallows' foot to see the hanging, as was natural for a wean; and what for mightna she hae been shot as weel as the rest o' them, and where wad we a' hae been then? "Report says," answered Butler, "that such a circumstance would not have distressed her majesty beyond endurance." "Aweel," said Mrs.
Aweel, the men a' went to the fishing and a' the weemen stayed at Bothanairidh, and in the evenings the young lassies would be making great laughing while the cailleachs span; and once, long long ago, when the crotal was young on the rocks on the moors, there came a swarthy lad and said fareweel tae his lass under this tree.
And it should be so, for it is from artesian wells that it is pumped. Aweel, I bided that night and by next day they were murmuring in the town, and their murmurs came to me. They thought it wasna richt for a Scotsman to be carrying off their flag though he'd bought it and paid for it. And so at last they came to me, and wanted to be buying back the flag. And I was agreeable.
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