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"A good turn," said Edie to himself, "never goes unrewarded I'll maybe get a good awmous that I wad hae missed but for trotting on this auld wife's errand."
"I tell ye, Dumbiedikes," said Deans, "that if telling down my haill substance could hae saved her frae this black snare, I wad hae walked out wi' naething but my bonnet and my staff to beg an awmous for God's sake, and ca'd mysell an happy man But if a dollar, or a plack, or the nineteenth part of a boddle, wad save her open guilt and open shame frae open punishment, that purchase wad David Deans never make!
"I tell ye, Dumbiedikes," said Deans, "that if telling down my haill substance could hae saved her frae this black snare, I wad hae walked out wi' naething but my bonnet and my staff to beg an awmous for God's sake, and ca'd mysell an happy man But if a dollar, or a plack, or the nineteenth part of a boddle, wad save her open guilt and open shame frae open punishment, that purchase wad David Deans never make!
At any rate, wait there till we come back, and Get off with you Come, come, weigh anchor." "I thank ye for your awmous," said Ochiltree, pocketing the piece of money; "but I beg your pardon, Mr. Taffril I canna gang your errand e'en now." "Why not, man? what can hinder you?" "I wad speak a word wi' young Mr. Lovel." "With me?" answered Lovel: "what would you say with me?
Like his employments, his earnings were chancy and various, ranging between a shilling to five shillings a-week, including gratuities, which his conceit prompted him to call "helps," with a view to avoid the imputation of living upon alms a name, in the Scotch language "awmous," which did not sound agreeably in the ears of Geordie Willison.
But you have lost all stay. She fumbled in an immense pocket, from which she produced a greasy purse 'Many's the awmous your house has gi'en Meg and hers; and she has lived to pay it back in a small degree; and she placed the purse in his hand.
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