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I fancy he's having more of the management of the Hollingford property than formerly. Sheepshanks is getting an old man. And if so, I suspect we shall see a good deal of Preston. He's "no blate," as they used to say in Scotland, and made himself quite at home to-night. If I'd asked him to stay, or, indeed, if I'd done anything but yawn, he'd have been here now.
"I am afraid," said George Heriot, more hastily than prudently, "I might have thought of the old proverb of Satan reproving sin." "Deil hae our saul, neighbour," said the king, reddening, "but ye are not blate! I gie ye license to speak freely, and, by our saul, ye do not let the privilege become lost non utendo it will suffer no negative prescription in your hands.
And she glided past him into the house. "Was the lass speakin' wi' you, skipper?" asked my father. "Yes," said Gordon. "She was telling me that my barque's masts are too high." "Ay! but it's no' sae often that she'll speak wi' a man. She's a blate lass wi' maist folk. But what kens she about a vessel's masts, I wonder?"
"Janet," said Graeme again, "what do you think Mrs Greenleaf told me all Merleville is saying?" Janet expressed no curiosity. "They say Deacon Snow wants to take you down the brae." Still Mrs Nasmyth made no answer. "He hasna ventured to hint such a thing?" exclaimed Graeme interrogatively. "No' to me," said Janet, quietly, "but the minister." "The minister! He's no' blate!
'Perhaps, said Mannering, 'at such a time a stranger's arrival might be inconvenient? 'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house is muckle eneugh, and decking time's aye canty time.
"Yes," said the woman. Robbie was uncertain as to what the affirmation implied. Taking it to be a sort of request for a more definite description, he continued, "A blate and fearsome sort of a fellow, you know." "Yes," repeated the woman, and then there was a pause.
He "braw'd it," as he says, with no doubt the finest of periwigs, long before he had ceased to be a skull-thatcher, and swaggered through the wynds and about the Cross with the best. The Edinburgh shopkeeper has never been "blate."
It was an understood thing at first, that, saving in the matter of guns and other military implements, the volunteers were to be at all their own expenses; out of which, both tribulation and disappointment ensued; for when it came to be determined about the uniforms, Major Pipe found that he could by no possibility wise all the furnishing to me, every one being disposed to get his regimentals from his own merchant; and there was also a division anent the colour of the same, many of the doucer sort of the men being blate of appearing in scarlet and gold-lace, insisting with a great earnestness, almost to a sedition, on the uniform being blue.
Thither he directed his course, the abbey towers serving him for her sign, and the moonlight and running river were guides to her door, at the which he was not blate in chapping.
"Indeed he was all questions," said I; "but I am not remembering that he spoke of you, my lass." "My motherless lass! am I clean forgot then?" "I would not say that either," said I, and told her about the window gazing. "He will be a little blate for such a namely man," said Margaret, but I could see there was a glow of pleasure over her. "It will be long past time for the bedding," said I.
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