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He was standing up behind the parapet, his head thrown back and the bottle to his mouth. As he put it down, he saw and recognised us with a toss of one hand fleeringly above his head. 'Has he been drinking? shouted I to Rorie. 'He will aye be drunk when the wind blaws, returned Rorie in the same high key, and it was all that I could do to hear him. 'Then was he so in February? I inquired.
Malcolm, who had been some thirty paces behind, was with her in a moment. "Isn't it splendid?" she cried. "It blaws weel verra near as weel 's my daddy," said Malcolm, enjoying it quite as much as the girl. "How dare you make game of such a grand uproar?" said Florimel with superiority. "Mak ghem o' a blast o' win' by comparin' 't to my gran'father!" exclaimed Malcolm.
Then there is your sentimental water fly, who blaws in the lugs of the women, and clips the King's English, and your high flying dominie body, who whumles them outright. I speak in a figure.
"I see which way the wind blaws," she exclaimed, after a pause of astonishment; "the evil spirit of the year sixteen hundred and forty-twa is at wark again as merrily as ever, and ilka auld wife in the chimley-neuck will be for knapping doctrine wi' doctors o' divinity and the godly fathers o' the church."
I micht as weel cry upo' the win' as it blaws by me! I canna understan' 't! I ken weel ye'll soon be a great man, and a' the toon crushin to hear ye; and I ken jist as weel that I'll hae to sit still in my seat and luik up to ye whaur ye stan', no daurin to say a word no daurin even to think a thoucht lest somebody sittin aside me should hear't ohn me spoken.
MYSELF: Still, there are dark bits black, you may say and thereabouts it will be good. THE OTHER MAN: That's where you're wrong; the lighter it is the better it is ... ah! that's where many of 'em go wrong. It blaws away with a blast of wind. After this we ceased to speak to each other for several miles. Then: MYSELF: Who owns the land about here? THE OTHER MAN: Some owns parts and some others.
"I see which way the wind blaws," she exclaimed, after a pause of astonishment; "the evil spirit of the year sixteen hundred and forty-twa is at wark again as merrily as ever, and ilka auld wife in the chimley-neuck will be for knapping doctrine wi' doctors o' divinity and the godly fathers o' the church."
"Weel, Doctor, it's an ill wind blaws naebody guid, and ye canna expect Captain McFadyen or mysel' to sympatheese overmuch wi' the West End for a loss that is our gain. And, Colonel, it's in my memory that ye had set your mind on beginnin' wi' the Operating Theatre?..."
Win' that blaws the simmer plaid, Ower the hie hill's shouthers laid, Green wi' gerse, an' reid wi' heather, Welcome wi' yer soul-like weather! Mony a win' there has been sent Oot 'aneth the firmament; Ilka ane its story has; Ilka ane began an' was; Ilka ane fell quaiet an' mute Whan its angel wark was oot.
They rade an' they ran; the doctor cam', an' the minister, an' the lawyer, an' the grave-digger. But whan a man's deid, what can a' the warl' du for 'im but berry 'im? puir hin'er en' thof it be to him' at draws himsel' up, an' blaws himsel' oot! There was mony a conjectur as to hoo he cam by his deith, an' mony a doobt it wasna by fair play.
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