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"We should be a match for the three watchers, my lad, and it's time that poor devil What's-his-name was relieved." "A bonny-like plan that would be," said Dougal. "Man, ye would be walkin' into the very trap they want. In an hour, or maybe two, the rest will turn up from the sea and they'd have ye tight by the neck. Na, na!
"A bonny-like hostler-wife ye'll mak'," said he. "And few'll come to Mungo Byde's hostelry if his wife's to be eternally in a deevilish dwaam, concocting Hielan' spells when she should be stirring at the broth.
And you argued with him about that! I would have put a hand on his cravat and throttled him." The Paymaster was abashed, but "Just consider, Colin," he pleaded. "I am not so young as I was, and a bonny-like thing it would be to throttle him on the ground he gave." "Old Mars!" cried the Cornal, with a sneer.
There's them that's gowks enough to think ye're seein' Sichts, when it's neither mair nor less than he'rt-sick laziness, and I was ance ane o' them mysel'. Ye hinnae as muckle o' the Sicht as wad let ye see when Leevie was makin' a gowk o' ye to gar ye hang oot signals for her auld jo. A bonny-like brewster-wife ye'll mak', I warrant!"
Balderstone's no far aff the town yet." "Do sae, Will; and come here, I'll tell ye what to do when ye owertake him." He relieved the females of his presence, and gave Will his private instructions. "A bonny-like thing," said the mother-in-law, as the cooper re-entered the apartment, "to send the innocent lad after an armed man, when ye ken Mr.
Run away with you now!" and she pushed him to the door like a child that had been caressed and counselled. He was for going eagerly without a word more, but she cried him back. For a moment she clung to his arm as if she was reluctant to part with him. "Oh!" she cried, laughing, and yet with tears in her voice, "a bonny-like man to be asking her without having anything to offer."
A bonny-like thing it wad be if the maister cam' hame and foun' the Macfarlanes wer oot on the ran-dan and had picked ye oot o' Doom like a wulk oot o' its shell. It wisna like as if ye were ane o' the ordinar garrison, ye ken; ye were jist a kin' o' veesitor " "And it was I they were after," said Count Victor, "which surely gave me some natural interest in the defence."
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