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It is rented, and the rent paid doon; and the books and pictures canna be meddled wi'; there mustna be a finger laid on them." "My certie! The man is gane far awa'; o'er the Atlantic Ocean itsel' I'll bear the blame o' it. He took quite a liking to me, that was easy seen, and I'm vera sure, he willna mind me using what he canna use himsel'." "He put the room, and a' in it, under my care, aunt.
But our folk were at great pains lang syne to big up the passage in some parts, and pu' it down in others, for fear o' some uncanny body getting into it, and finding their way down to the cove: it wad hae been a fashious job that by my certie, some o' our necks wad hae been ewking." They now came to a place where the gallery was enlarged into a small circle, sufficient to contain a stone seat.
Leucha muttered something which Magsie took for 'Come in. She entered the luxurious chamber. 'You are called, Lady Leucha, to the mistress on business immediate and most important. You are to go to her at once. My certie! but you are comfortable here. 'Are you speaking of Mrs Macintyre? inquired Leucha. 'I am the head-mistress of the school herself.
Bishopriggs evidently under the impression that the case before him was a case of elopement, with Sir Patrick mixed up in it in the capacity of guardian addressed himself, in friendly confidence, to Anne. "My certie, mistress! it's ill wark deceivin' Sir Paitrick, if that's what ye've dune. Ye must know, I was ance a bit clerk body in his chambers at Embro "
"My certie, things are come to a pretty pass that any one's permission save her Majesty's should be speired for one of her women, and I wonder that you, my mistress, should be the last to think of her honour!" "O Mrs. Kennedy, dear Mrs. Jean," entreated Cicely, "hinder me not. If I wait till I can ask her, I may lose my sole hope of speaking with him.
Was it there? Ay, it was there. Did he ken o't? My certie! the Marquis kenn'd o't, and it was the best o' the game; for, when I couldna pacify your honour wi' a' that I could say, I aye threw out a word mair about the gunpouther, and garr'd the Marquis tak the job in his ain hand."
Quite an interesting crowd when you come to think of it, for its size and babel of tongues! but, my certie! I'd nearly left out the cook's charming and stately Burmese wife!
Edie, standing much at his ease by the side of the hole, contented himself with exhorting his associate to labour hard. "My certie! few ever wrought for siccan a day's wage; an it be but say the tenth part o' the size o' the kist, No. I., it will double its value, being filled wi' gowd instead of silver.
'Token, no; 'tis a book for Lady Elleen. Never fash yourself, man; the King, so far as I might judge, is far more taken with Elleen than ever he is with Jean. He seems but a bookish sort of bodie of Malcolm's sort. 'My certie, an' that be sae, we may look to winning back Roxburgh and Berwick! returned the Douglas, his eye flashing. 'He's welcome to Lady Elleen!
"Ou, they cam out to gather marts for the garrison," answered the housekeeper; "but they just fell to their auld trade, and rade through the country couping and selling a' that they gat, like sae mony west-country drovers. My certie, Major Bellenden was laird o' the least share o' what they lifted, though it was taen in his name."
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