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"Look here," said the landlady, "I'll tak' nane o' your snash, so mind that. If folk come in here to be served, they've got to be ceevil." "Oh, there's nae harm," he said apologetically, with a forced laugh, "but I'm in a hurry, and I want a drink." "Weel, I maun hae ceevility. So if you don't gi'e the yin, you'll no' get the ither." "That's all right," he said. "Keep the sovereign.
I took a look aboot me, very careful, and, guid faith, the lackeys were standing round as thick as thistles o' the field in their red plush breeks. Only they didna look as if they were the stuff to put me oot. "So I explained to him that appeared to be the heid yin, the naitur' o' my errand. Very ceevil I was, but when I had dune he just laughed and the rest they laughed after him.
He stood a moment expecting one, then broke out in a rage. "What for mak ye nae answer whan a body speirs ye a queston? That wasna mainners whan I was a bairn. Lord! ye micht as weel be ceevil! Isna it easy eneuch to lee?" "I would answer no man who was not prepared to believe me," said Cosmo quietly.
I'm feared I wasna glad to see him; and though I was ceevil enough, the wise man read me like a book. 'John, says he, 'I am not come to ask you for siller to-day, nor am I come to reprove you for staying awa from the service o' God twice lately. I am come to tell you that you will hae the grandest opportunity to-day, to be, not only a man, but a Christ-man.
He's got braw, braw tartan whuskers That defy the shears and kaim: There's an awfu' row in Brigton When M'Kay comes hame." It went on to tell how: "John M'Kay works down in Singers's, He's a ceevil engineer, But his wife's no verra ceevil When she's had some ginger-beer. When he missed the last Kilbowie train And had to walk hame lame, There wis Home Rule wi' the poker When M'Kay cam hame." Mrs.
But it growled, and glared more terribly. "Stop it, ye little snake, or I'll flatten you!" cried the big drover, and shuffled his feet threateningly. Whereat the puppy, gurgling like hot water in a kettle, made a feint as though to advance and wipe them out, these two bad men. M'Adam laughed again, and smote his leg. "Keep a ceevil tongue and yer distance," says he, "or I'll e'en ha' to mak' ye.
'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.
I was told in after days that my historic friend the beadle canvassed for me night and day, laying mighty stress upon the fact that he knew me well, since he had travelled with me, assuring every ear that I was "uncommon ceevil," and proudly laying bare the independent scorn with which I had met his proposition to inspect the manse.
"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 sharp meisture on the skin." "But he's no veera ceevil gin ye bring him when there's naethin' wrang," and Mrs. Macfayden's face reflected another of Mr.
"He's a gude cratur and terrible gifted in prayer," Netherton explained to Burnbrae after a prayer-meeting, when Donald had temporarily abandoned Satan and given himself to autobiography, "but yon wesna a verra ceevil way to speak aboot his faither and mither." "A' doot yir imaginin', Netherton. Donald never mentioned his fouk the nicht, and it's no likely he wud in the prayer-meeting."
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