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Updated: May 12, 2025
You stay here in your 'wild glen sae green, and only have your own friends to visit you " "Are you," Pamela asked Lewis, "like a woman I know who boasts that she knows no one in her country place, but gets her friends and her fish from London?" "No, I'm not in the least exclusive, only rather blate, and, I suppose, uninterested.
He never hev hed a reg'lar blate but two or three times sence he hev been hyar, an' them war when that thar old tur-rkey gobbler teetered up ter him an' tuk his corn-dodger that he war a-eatin' on plumb out'n his hand. He hed suthin' to holler fur hed los' his breakfus." "Don't he 'pear ter you-uns to be powerful peeg-eon-toed?" asked Tim, anxiously, turning to his father.
Do not be too blate, and for God's sake do not try to be too forward; nothing acts you worse. I am "Your affectionate friend and governess, "BARBARA GRANT."
"Upon my word," said the General, taken aback for a moment by the easy manners of his countryman, but rejoicing in every new assurance of home, "our people are no blate." "Is n't it delicious to be where character has not been worn smooth by centuries of oppression, but where each man is himself? Conversation has salt here, and tastes in the mouth.
The girl the girl was cold. I hate to say it, Dugald, but what is the harm in a story so old? She came about Miss Mary in this house as before, no way blate, but it was 'Hands off! for the man who had so liked her." He paused and stretched to fill his glass, but as he seized the bottle the hand shook so that he laid the vessel down in shame.
"Cannot that lass's father earn aught without keeping yon sulking waistrel about him?" asked the old dalesman one day. It was the first time he had spoken of Wilson since the threatened ducking. Being told of Wilson's violence to Rotha, he only said, "It's an old saying, 'A blate cat makes a proud mouse." Angus was never heard to speak of Wilson again.
The old man seemed in singular humour, laughing and chuckling to himself in a manner which strangely distorted his stern and rigid features, and at the same time shaking his head, as at something which he could not help condemning, while he found it irresistibly ludicrous. "My certes, countryman," said he, "but you are not blate you will never lose fair lady for faint heart!
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