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'But surely ye're raisin' an awfu' excitement ower a pair o' socks. 'It wasna the socks, ye stupid: it was the fondest love! John laughed again, but less boisterously, 'Maggie's no blate, whaever she is. Did ye no speir at Macgreegor aboot her? 'Oh, man! ha'e ye nae sense? I jist tied up the paircel again an' left it on his bed. 'Weel, that ends it, John said comfortably.
"And how is she how is Betty?" I asked, lamely. He laughed with a pleasing slyness, and gave me a dunt with his elbow on the side, a bit of the faun, a bit of the father, a bit of my father's friend. "You're too blate, Colin," he said, and then he put his arm through his wife's and gave her a squeeze to take her into his joke.
"I profess neither love nor favour to the young man," answered Buckingham, whose high-spirited ambition bore always an open character: "but I cannot but agree with your Highness, that our dear gossip hath been something hasty in apprehending personal danger from him." "By my saul, Steenie, ye are not blate, to say so!" said the king. "Do I not ken the smell of pouther, think ye?
"DEAR DAVIE, What do you think of my farewell? and what do you say to your fellow-passenger? Did you kiss, or did you ask? I was about to have signed here, but that would leave the purport of my question doubtful; and in my own case I ken the answer. So fill up here with good advice. Do not be too blate, and for God's sake do not try to be too forward; nothing sets you worse. I am
They were probably too shy, too tentative, to attract Rochester's attention. It is probable, also, that there were plenty of beautiful women about the Court, more mature, more practised in the arts of coquetry than Frances, and very likely not at all `blate' as Carr and his master would put it in showing themselves ready for conquest by the King's handsome favourite.
It was Mr Norie, the editor, who brought me into the discussion. 'Our South African friend is very blate, he said in his boisterous way. 'Andra, if this place of yours wasn't so damned teetotal and we had a dram apiece, we might get his tongue loosened. I want to hear what he's got to say about the war. You told me this morning he was sound in the faith. 'I said no such thing, said Mr Amos.
"Nelly Carnegie, what's your will?" "Not that man, mother; not that fearsome man!" pleaded Nelly, with streaming eyes and beseeching tones, her high spirit for the moment broken; her contempt gone, only her aversion and terror urging a hearing "The lad that's blate and dull till he's braggit by his fellows, and then starker than ony carle, wild like a north-country cateran; even the haill bench o' judges would not stand to conter him."
Do not be too blate, and for God's sake do not try to be too forward; nothing sets you worse. I am "Your affectionate friend and governess,
"Beyond me and every ither in the land but ane, and it wud cost a hundred guineas tae bring him tae Drumtochty." "Certes, he's no blate; it's a fell chairge for a short day's work; but hundred or no hundred we'll hae him, an' no let Annie gang, and her no half her years." "Are ye meanin' it, Drumsheugh?" and MacLure turned white below the tan.
Anderson, bridling up, with flushed countenance, and head erect, to the calumniator, "but ye're no blate to ca' me thae names i' my ain house." "Ay, I'll ca' ye thae names, and waur too, in yer ain house, or onywhar else," replied the other belligerent, clenching her teeth fiercely together, and thrusting her face with most intense ferocity into the countenance of her antagonist.
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