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I'm surprised, however, that he should be careless of the girl. He was aye said to be browdened upon her." "Men-folk are often like that about lassie-weans," said Johnny Coe. "They like well enough to pet them when they're wee, but when once they're big they never look the road they're on! They're a' very fine when they're pets, but they're no sae fine when they're pretty misses.
But the wastefu' wife's the waefu' widow, she should keep in mind. She's far owre browdened upon yon boy. I'm sure I howp good may come o't, but " and with an ominous shake of the head she ended the Websterian harangue. When Peter Wylie left him Gourlay lit a cigarette and stood at the Cross, waiting for the praises yet to be. The Deacon toddled forward on his thin shanks.
"Hay-ay-ay," he said, in throaty derision, "my faither's the boy for ye. Yon was the way to put ye down!" A Scot devoted to his children is said to be "browdened on his bairns." Thowless, weak, useless. In every little Scotch community there is a distinct type known as "the bodie."
And it's right, no doubt, that her brother should still be abed oh, it's right that he should get the privilege seeing he's the eldest!" Mrs. Gourlay was what the Scotch call "browdened on her boy." In spite of her slack grasp on life perhaps, because of it she clung with a tenacious fondness to him.
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