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Whatever the evil spirit said in the veesions o' the nicht oh! my laddie, for laddie ye have been to me since I learned ye to ride your pony and fire your first shot, ye mauna give heed or meddle wi' Providence. Ye have been awfu' favored wi' the bonniest face ever I saw on a man, so that there's no a lass looks on ye but she loves ye, and the hardiest body ever I kenned.
'In other words, I must wish for Edgar Linton's great blue eyes and even forehead, he replied. 'I do and that won't help me to them. 'A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad, I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
"Though I have seen you to-day already," said I, and told her where and when. "I did not see you," she said. "My eyes are big, but there are better than mine at seeing far. Only I heard singing in the house." "That was Miss Grant," said I, "the eldest and the bonniest." "They say they are all beautiful," said she.
"Dinna ye reckon on that, Jennie; it's nae the bonniest Bubbly Jock that mak's the most feathers to fly in the kailyard. I was ever a lad to run after the petticoats, as is weel kent; an' it's a weary handfu' I'll be to ye, I'm thinkin'." "Ah, but ye hae a kind heart, Davie! an' ye love me weel. I'm sure on't."
Then shoo set hersel on a rock behind t' fall an' clapped her hands an' laughed. I looked at her an' I saw t' bonniest seet I've iver set een on. "You see by now t' sun had getten high up i' t' sky, an' were shinin' straight up t' beck on to t' fall. There had bin a bit o' flood t' day afore, an' t' watter were throwin' up spray wheer it fell on to t' rocks below t' fall.
"Weel, ye see, mem, I mean my leddy, fowk said I was ill aboot the bride; an' sae I bude to dance 't oot o' their heids." "And how much truth was there in what they said?" she asked, with a sly glance up in the handsome, now glowing face. "Gien there was ony, there was unco little," he replied. "The chield's walcome till her for me. But she was the bonniest lassie we had.
It would numb the original heart of the bonniest set of words that rightly used would have made some people happy sterilize them, make them anaemic and pasty-faced, so that they would disturb the peace of mind of all compassionate men who looked upon them. That my own staff of words refused my summons.... But what was it I said I wanted them for just now?
"Here is a serving-man on the bonniest grey tit I ever see'd in my life," said Will Badger, who got the start "having on his arm a silver cognizance, being a fire-drake holding in his mouth a brickbat, under a coronet of an Earl's degree," said Master Mumblazen, "and bearing a letter sealed of the same."
"That's true, mem, an' it canna be I sud ever forget yon face ye shawed me i' the coffin, the bonniest, sairest sicht I ever saw," returned Malcolm, with a quaver in his voice. "But what for cairry yer thouchts to the deid face o' her? Ye kent the leevin' ane weel," objected Miss Horn. "That's true, mem; but the deid face maist blottit the leevin' oot o' my brain." "I'm sorry for that.
"Though I have seen you to-day already," said I, and told her where and when. "I did not see you," she said. "My eyes are big, but there are better than mine at seeing far. Only I heard singing in the house." "That was Miss Grant," said I, "the eldest and the bonniest." "They say they are all beautiful," said she.
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