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Updated: June 17, 2025
But there was a kind of little smile, too, on his face, showin' he did some thinkin'; and I guessed he was bidin' his time. "I wasn't as sharp as I might ha' been, or I'd ha' seen what he was waitin' for, with that quiet provokin' smile on his face, and his eyes smoulderin' like.
On one occasion she found herself in a cottage on the Gledsmuir road, her hands filled with election literature. A hale old man was sitting at his meal, who greeted her cordially, and made her sit down while she stumbled through the usual questions and exhortations. "Are ye no' bidin' at Glenavelin?" he asked. "And have I no seen ye walking on the hill wi' Maister Lewie?"
He had caught that note and it piqued his curiosity, so with mountain secretiveness he became cryptic in his response. "Wa'al, mebby we hain't tellin' all we knows jest yit. Mebby we're kinderly bidin' our time for a leetle spell." It was not a comprehensive announcement.
"I maun awa hame," she said with a sigh. "Ay, lassie; they'll be bidin' their denner for ye." "Na, nae fear o' that," answered Annie, adding with another little sigh, "I doot there winna be muckle o' the broth to the fore or I win hame." "Weel jist bide, bairn, an' tak' a cup o' tay wi' me. It's a' 'at I hae to offer ye. Will ye bide?" "Maybe I wad be i' yer gait," objected Annie feebly.
And my grandmother had tales o' auld Ettericks who rade wi' Douglas and the Bruce and the ancient Kings o' Scots; and she used to tell o' others in her mother's time, terrible shockheaded men hunting the deer and rinnin' on the high moors, and bidin' in the broken stane biggings on the hill-taps." The shepherd stared, and he, too, saw the picture.
Bide here th' night, can't un?" urged Richard. "I were sayin' t' Mr. MacDonald as I'd be back t' th' post th' day, so promisin' I has t' go." "Aye, an' un promised, though I were hopin' t' have un bide th' night." "When'll I be comin' for un, Bessie?" asked Tom. "Oh, Bessie must be bidin' a long time," plead Emily. "I've been wishin' t' have she so much. Please be leavin' she a long time."
The landlord came in with whisky, and banked up the peats till they glowed beneath a pall of blue smoke. "I hope to goodness we are alone," said Thirlstone, and he turned to the retreating landlord and asked the question. "There's naebody bidin' the nicht forbye yoursels," he said, "but the morn there's a gentleman comin'. I got a letter frae him the day. Maister Wiston, they ca him.
A flock of wild geese, honking in flight, turned into a bight and alighted where a brook coursed down through a marsh to join the sea. "There's some geese," remarked David, breaking the silence. "They're comin' up south now. We'll have a hunt when we gets home. They always feeds in that mesh when they're bidin' about the Bay." Presently Andy exclaimed: "I can tie un all!
I'm thinkin' He'd a' found a way afore now if th' mail boat had been makin' another trip before th' freeze up." "I'm lackin' in faith, I'm fearin'. I'm always forgettin' that th' Lard does what's best for us an' don't always do un th' way we wants He to. He's bidin' His own time I'm thinkin', an' answerin' my prayers th' way as is best."
Eh ye ill laddie! What are ye slinkin' roond here for, when I tell't ye this mornin' that I wad sell ye nae mair scones till ye paid for the last lot? Ye're a wheen thievin' hungry callants, and if there were a polisman in the place I'd gie ye in chairge.... What's that ye say? Ye're no' wantin' meat? Ye want to speak to the gentlemen that's bidin' here? Ye ken the auld ane, says you?
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