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And noo she's back til her father, bricht and licht and bonny as the lown starry nicht! Eh, but it maks me happy to think o' 't! 'Sae it maks me! responded Kirsty, feeling, as she regarded him, like a glorified mother beholding her child walking in the truth.
"It's keepit up wonderfu' through the week, for a' never like ower bricht mornin's," old Sandie Ferguson would remark casually, whose arrival, swallow-like, heralded the approach of the great occasion. Them 'at lives ablow are michty favoured, wi' the kirk at their door."
He knew that, soon or late, he'd find the yin who meant mair to him than a' the ither lassies i' the world put together. And it was sae. She came to toon, a stranger. She was a wee, bonnie creature, wi' bricht een and bright cheeks; she had a laugh that was like music in your ears. Half the young men in the toon went coortin' her frae the moment they first clapped een upon her.
"There's a bonny lassie that has bricht een, and there's a wee man in a braw coat, and a big man in a pouthered wig, and there's the shadow of the wuddy, joe, that lies braid across your path. Gie's your loof, hinny, and let Auld Merren spae it to ye bonny."
In our grey-haired days, When the gowany braes Are owre steep for our feet to climb When her back is bowed, and her lovely e'e, Once bricht as a beam frae the sun, is dim She'll be still my bit lassie to me. Stupid auld body wicked auld body Love, like the gowan's a winter liver. The smile o' a wife is the sun o' its life, An' her bosom a brae where it blooms for ever.
But sune I gaed to my bed, being heavy wi' sleep, for I had traivelled for twae days. The next morn I was up at six and out to see the weather. It was a' changed. The muckle tides lay lang and still as our ain Loch o' the Lee, and far ayont I saw the big blue hills o' England shine bricht and clear.
Miller was a splendid piper, a Lowland Scotchman with a Glasgow accent that convulsed everyone who heard him. He took great delight in using the dialect of Bobby Burns in its purest form, and could get his tongue around "Its a braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht" like Harry Lauder. Dr. MacKenzie was quickly brought and did what he could to alleviate the sufferings of the two men.
I hae made a fire 'at's baith big an' bricht, an' fit to ro'st Belzebub an' I beg your pardon, laird but it's some days I micht say ooks sin' there was a fire intil 't, an' the place needs time to tak the heat intil its auld neuks." She might have said years not a few, instead of some weeks, but her truthfulness did not drive her so far.
"Well, I wad rather be up ear'," said Malcolm; "a heap raither. I like fine to be oot i' the quaiet o' the mornin' afore the sun's up to set the din gaun; whan it's a' clear but no bricht like the back o' a bonny sawmon; an' air an' watter an' a' luiks as gien they war waitin' for something quaiet, verra quaiet, but no content."
Suddenly she pointed with uplifted hand: "Oh, faither, I see oor Elsie's face an' the token's in her haun', an' it's a' bricht wi' gowden licht. She's biddin' us a' hame me, an' faither, an' Robin " and she passed into the homeland bearing the prodigal's name with her up to God. I gently closed her eyes. Donald stood long beside the bed; then, taking his son into his arms, he said
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