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He is always dressed for the saddle, or else he is in the saddle, and so most sure to have a whip in his hand." "What are you talking about? What is the young man to you?" "He is brawly handsome. They call him Archie Braelands." "I have heard tell of him. And by what is said, I should not think he was an improving friend for any good girl to have." "This, or that, he likes me.
The hypocritical rascal winked slyly to his comrade as he said this. Meanwhile Lindsay and one of the men examined the contents of the boat, and, finding nothing contraband, the former said "So, you're honest men, I find. Fishermen, doubtless?" "Ay, some o' yer crew ken us brawly," said Davy Spink with a grin.
"Well said, sir; brawly said; 'tis the part of a good soldier to be ay wanting to be in the thick o' the fighting. But now that ye're a man of substance, Captain Ireton, ye will be owing other debts to our country than the one ye can pay with a hantle o' steel." "'Our country, did you say, Mr. Stair?" I asked, feigning a surprise which no one knowing him could feel in very truth.
"Ow aye, Jess, lass, I saw ye brawly, but it disna do to come seekin' twa lasses at ae time." "Dinna ye be thinkin' to put awa' Meg, an' then come coortin' me!" said Jess, sharply. Saunders was hurt for the moment at this pointed allusion both to his profession and also to his condition as a "seekin'" widower. "Wha seeks you, Jess, 'ill be sair ill-aff!" he replied very briskly for a cuif.
The carle has Jacobuses and Georgiuses baith, an ane could get at them; and sure I am, it's doing him an honour him or his never deserved at our hand, the ungracious sumph; and if he loses by us a'thegither, he is e'en cheap o't: he can spare it brawly."
D'ye ken that he aye glowers up at my window, Mr. Balderstone, when he chaunces to ride thro' the town? Sae I hae a right to ken what like he is, as weel as ony body." "I ken that brawly," said Caleb, "for I hae heard his lordship say the cooper's wife had the blackest ee in the barony; and I said, 'Weel may that be, my lord, for it was her mither's afore her, as I ken to my cost. Eh, Marion?
"Very likely no but ye hae gien me permission to speak, an' her that's stannin afore yer honourable coort, brawly kens the laws. Elspeth Mowdiewort didna soop yer kirk an wait till yer session meetings war ower for thirty year in my ain man's time withoot kennin' a' the laws.
Ye needna du as they du. Jock Mitchell was airin' Reid Rorie an' Black Geordie. An' says Jock, "Brawly. Wha the deevil are ye?" An' says I, "Nae mair o' a deevil nor yersel', Jock Mitchell, or Alexander, Baron Rothie, either though maybe that's no little o' ane." "Preserve me!" cried Jock, "it's Shargar."
'Ay, I like the article brawly, she would say timidly, 'but I'm doubting it's the last I always have a sort of terror the new one may be the last, and if many days elapsed before the arrival of another article her face would say mournfully, 'The blow has fallen he can think of nothing more to write about. If I ever shared her fears I never told her so, and the articles that were not Scotch grew in number until there were hundreds of them, all carefully preserved by her: they were the only thing in the house that, having served one purpose, she did not convert into something else, yet they could give her uneasy moments.
One of Hobart's ways of striking terror into evil-doers was to announce, when crying a crime, that he himself knew perfectly well who the culprit was. "I see him brawly," he would say, "standing afore me, an' if he disna instantly mak retribution, I am determined this very day to mak a public example of him."
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