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"Then is there nothing that I can bring you from Edinburgh when I come again?" said Ralph, with whom the coming again was ever present. "'Deed, aye, gin ye are so ceevil it's richt prood I wad be o' a boxfu' o' Maister Cotton's Dutch sneeshin' him that's i' the High Street they say it's terrible graund stuff.
'I was wrong, McRimmon; but when a man's shown the door for doin' his plain duty he's not always ceevil. "'So I hear, says McRimmon. 'Ha' ye ony objection to a tramp freighter? It's only fifteen a month, but they say the Blind Deevil feeds a man better than others. She's my Kite. Come ben. Ye can thank Dandie, here. I'm no used to thanks.
"I gaed alang to Mistress MacMorrine's, an' says I, 'Guid-mornin' till ye, mistress, an' hoo's a' wi' ye the day? for I'm a ceevil chiel when folks are ceevil to me." "'Nane the better for seein' you, Jock Gordon, says she, for she's an unceevil wife, wi' nae mair mainners nor gin she had just come ower frae Donnachadee the ill-mainnered randy.
I am so sorry for it all, only I cannot understand it. 'Be thankfu' if ye dinna, then, replied Liz curtly. 'I'm no' very ceevil to ye. I am much obleeged to ye for comin', for the flooers, an' mair than a', for teachin' Wat to read. Her face became quite soft in its outline; the harshness died out of her bright eyes, leaving them lovely beyond expression.
'Ou, wha kens where ony o' them is now? puir things, they're sair ta'en doun for their white cockades and their white roses; but she gaed north to her father's in Perthshire, when the government troops cam back to Edinbro'. There was some prettymen amang them, and ane Major Whacker was quartered on me, a very ceevil gentleman, but O, Mr.
'That s' be as ye please, Miss Craig. But I wud lat you ca' me a' the ill names in the dictionar to get ye to heark to me! I'm tellin ye naething but what's true as death. 'I call no one names. I am always civil to my neighbours whoever they may be! I will not listen to you. 'Eh, lassie, there's but feow o' yer neebours ceevil to yer name, whatever they be to yersel!
He's a verra decent body a bit near maybe, an' terribly superfeecial i' antiquarian knowledge. I mind I had a bit differ wi' him the time he was last up at the Camp. 'But supposin' I was inclined to be ceevil till him what then?
Weel, ye'll ken him, an' aiblins, here the speaker took up the bellows and thoughtfully assisted the fire's respiration, 'aiblins it wud be a ceevil matter to offer to gie him a night's lodgin', for it's a gey lang way up frae the auld toon, an' the manager's gettin' gey white aboot the pow.
"What is it, Norah? Are you in throuble?" "Do not quarrel with him, mother," replied the daughter. "Let him be dacent, and it's ceevil treatment he'll get; but no man shall browbeat me on me own floor," said Biddy, in a tone which declared the firmness of her purpose. It was on the night succeeding this conversation, that Father M'Clane visited the cottage.
"If we're tae dee, we're tae dee; an' if we're tae live, we're tae live," concluded Elspeth, with sound Calvinistic logic; "but a'll say this for the doctor, that whether yir tae live or dee, he can aye keep up a shairp meisture on the skin. "But he's no verra ceevil gin ye bring him when there's naethin' wrang," and Mrs. Macfadyen's face reflected another of Mr.
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