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Jarvie dismissed me with little formality, with an advice to "gang up the gate to the college, where I wad find some chields could speak Greek and Latin weel at least they got plenty o' siller for doing deil haet else, if they didna do that; and where I might read a spell o' the worthy Mr.
Evan Dhu exclaimed with some eagerness, after looking at the dragoons, These are the very chields that galloped off at Gladsmuir, before we could kill a dozen o' them. They look bold enough now, however. The priest entreated him to be silent. The sledge now approached, and Fergus, turning round, embraced Waverley, kissed him on each side of the face, and stepped nimbly into his place.
"Ye'll may be no hae read the paurable o' the money changers i' the temple, no forgettin' a wheen warldly-minded chields that sell't doos, when they had mair need to be on their knees or hearkening a religious discourse -or a bit psaum or the like. Aweel, ye need na hong your heed yon gate neether.
Here they got on at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, Dumple seeking no other respite than what arose from changing his pace from canter to trot. 'I could gar him show mair action, said his master, 'but we are twa lang-legged chields after a', and it would be a pity to stress Dumple; there wasna the like o' him at Staneshiebank Fair the day.
There isna a hussy now on this side of thirty that you can bring within your doors, but there will be chields writer-lads, prentice-lads, and what not coming traiking after them for their destruction, and discrediting ane's honest house into the bargain I hae nae patience wi' them." "Hout, neighbour," said Mrs.
"And what think you, as an old soldier?" "Troth I kenna an they come so mony as they speak o', they'll be odds against us. But there's mony yauld chields amang thae volunteers; and I mauna say muckle about them that's no weel and no very able, because I am something that gate mysell But we'se do our best." "What! so your martial spirit is rising again, Edie?
Aweel, to mak a lang tale short, up cam my young Lord Evandale, skelping as fast as his horse could trot, and twenty red-coats at his back. Twa or three chields wad needs fight, wi' the pistol and the whinger in the tae hand, and the Bible in the tother, and they got their crouns weel cloured; but there wasna muckle skaith dune, for Evandale aye cried to scatter us, but to spare life."
Flockhart, replied the Gael. 'And will ye face thae tearing chields, the dragoons, Ensign Maccombich? again inquired the landlady. 'Claw for claw, as Conan said to Satan, Mrs. Flockhart, and the deevil tak the shortest nails. 'And will the colonel venture on the bagganets himsell? 'Ye may swear it, Mrs. Flockhart; the very first man will he be, by Saint Phedar.
'Ye have heard of a year they call the FORTY-FIVE, young gentleman; when the Southrons' heads made their last acquaintance with Scottish claymores? There was a set of rampauging chields in the country then that they called rebels I never could find out what for Some men should have been wi' them that never came, provost Skye and the Bush aboon Traquair for that, ye ken.
"Sell'd!" echoed the gipsy, with something like a scream; "and wha durst buy Ellangowan that was not of Bertram's blude? and wha could tell whether the bonny knave-bairn may not come back to claim his ain! wha durst buy the estate and the castle of Ellangowan?" "Troth, gudewife, just ane o' thae writer chields that buys a' thing they ca' him Glossin, I think." "Glossin!
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