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"Mistress Lilias," replied the butler, with an air which was intended to close the debate, "there are reasons for all things. If I received Father Ambrose debonairly, and suffered him to steal a word now arid then with this same Roland Graeme, it was not that I cared a brass bodle for his benison or malison either, but only because I respected my master's blood.
BLYTHE, gay, glad. BODLE, a copper coin worth a third of an English penny. BOLE, a bowl. BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack. BRAE, the side of a hill. BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock. BREEKS, breeches. BROGUES, Highland shoes. BROKEN MEN, outlaws. BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor BROWST, a brewing. BRUIK, enjoy. BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person. BULLSEGG, a gelded bull.
Na, na, quo' I, depend upon't the lard's been imposed upon wi that wily do-little deevil, Johnnie Howie. But Lord haud a care o' us, sirs, how can that be, quo' she again, when the laird's sae book-learned, there's no the like o' him in the country side, and Johnnie Howie has hardly sense eneugh to ca' the cows out o' his kale-yard? Aweel, aweel, quo' I, but ye'll hear he's circumvented him with some of his auld-warld stories, for ye ken, laird, yon other time about the bodle that ye thought was an auld coin"
'I believe he is ane o' King George's state officers; at least he's aye for ganging on to the south; and he has a hantle siller, and never grudges ony thing till a poor body, or in the way of a lawing. 'He wants a guide and a horse frae hence to Edinburgh? 'Aye, and ye maun find it him forthwith. 'Ahem! It will be chargeable. 'He cares na for that a bodle.
"Dear me!" said Edie, with affected surprise; "weel, I thought there was naething but what your honour could hae studden in the way o' agreeable conversation, unless it was about the Praetorian yonder, or the bodle that the packman sauld to ye for an auld coin." "Pshaw! pshaw!" said the Antiquary, turning from him hastily, and retreating into the house.
He was a jocular fellow with the right heart for a duello, and in his nipped burgh Gaelic he made light of the disturbance and his injury. "Nothing but a bit play, my jurymen MacCailein my lordship a bit play. If the poor lad didn't happen to have his dirk out and I to run on it, nobody was a bodle the worse." "But the law" started the clerk to say. "No case for law at all," said the man.
This was uttered with the true mendicant whine, as, setting his pike-staff before him, he began to move in the direction of Monkbarns. "But did your honour," turning round, "ever get back the siller ye gae to the travelling packman for the bodle?" "Curse thee, go about thy business!" "Aweel, aweel, sir, God bless your honour! I hope ye'll ding Johnnie Howie yet, and that I'll live to see it."
Chief-Inspector Bodle at the same time, with two troops M.M.P., charged, and drove off the field a large force of Boers threatening our left flank. The guide had informed us that the road to the right of the hill was impassable, and that there was open and easy country to the left. This information was misleading.
Were the like o' me ever to change a note, wha the deil d'ye think wad be sic fules as to gie me charity after that? it wad flee through the country like wildfire, that auld Edie suld hae done siccan a like thing, and then, I'se warrant, I might grane my heart out or onybody wad gie me either a bane or a bodle." "Is there nothing, then, that I can do for you?"
The poor lady-fairy a mother's aye a mother, be she elves' flesh or Eve's flesh hid her elf son beside the christened flesh in Marion Irving's cradle, and the auld enemy lost his prey for a time. Now, hasten on with your story, which is not a bodle the waur for me.
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