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"Your Grace is better at giving than taking," said Mrs. Glass. "To show you the contrary," said the Duke, "I will fill my box out of this canister without paying you a bawbee;" and again desiring to be remembered to Jeanie, with his good wishes for her safe journey, he departed, leaving Mrs. Glass uplifted in heart and in countenance, the proudest and happiest of tobacco and snuff dealers.
What was it that old Duke gave her this morning? Was it a bawbee?" "I took no notice of what it was, Tom," I replied. "But it was very kind of him to give her anything." "It was a sixpence he gave her," said Robbie Rosson. "I saw the colour of it." "A sixpence!" exclaimed Tom. "The sneak that she is! Let's go back and make her give us a share of it." "Get away, man," said Robbie.
No one bade us welcome, nor did any one offer to take our horses, from which we had alighted; and to our various inquiries, the hopeless response of "Ha niel Sassenach," was the only answer we could extract. "If I gie ye a bawbee," said he to an urchin of about ten years old, with a fragment of a tattered plaid about him, "will you understand Sassenach?"
"The only drap o' gentle bluid that's in your body was our great-grand-uncle's that was justified* at Dumbarton, and you set yourself up to say ye wad derogate frae your place to visit me! Hark thee, man I owe thee a day in harst I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi' this Sassenach."
But they're traitors to their country they're traitors as surely as if they'd helped the Hun in the war we've won. If there's another war, as God forbid, they're helping now to lose it who do not do their part in giving Britain new sons and new dochters to carry on the race. Tis strange thing enow to become used to it no to hea to count every bawbee before ye spend it. I ken it weel.
He simply cannot thole her to give look or word to any one but himself. Perfect scand'lous selfishness! That is where all the trouble has come from." "Whist, Mother! He is most at the doorstep. That is Andrew's foot, or I am much mista'en." "Then I'll away to Lizzie Robertson's for an hour. My heart is knocking at my lips, and I'll be saying what I would give my last bawbee to unsay.
"Arrah, who towld you so, agra?" "Sure the boy will take care of you now, won't he?" "What boy?" "Andy, sure!" "Andy!" replied his mother, in amazement. "Andy, indeed! out o' place, and without a bawbee to bless himself with! stayin' out all night, the blackguard!" "By this and that, I don't think you know a word about it," cried the friend, whose turn it was for wonder now.
A grand life, aye ne'er think I'm not meaning that. I lived hard masel', when I was a bit laddie, but I'd no gie up those memories for ought I could ha' had as a rich man's son. But a hard life. A laddie like the one I ha' in mind would be seein' the auld folk countin' every bawbee because they must.
If I continue to like the lass as well as I have reason to expect, it will be something more than her father, or the gallows either, that keeps the two of us apart. As for my family, I found it by the wayside like a lost bawbee! I owe less than nothing to my uncle; and if ever I marry, it will be to please one person: that's myself." "I have heard this kind of talk before ye were born," said Mrs.
When they get a bawbee, they know what to do with it, that's a fact; they open their pouch and drop it in, and it's got a spring like a fox-trap; it holds fast to all it gets, like grim death to a dead nigger. They are proper skinflints, you may depend.
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