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"Ay, and Jimmie Crageen, and Ronald Ray from Kirbister, and Steenie Barrie; all o' them good honest men and weel acquainted wi' the Orkneys. What d'ye say, Halcro? Will ye join us?" "I canna say, Jack. Ye see there's the Falcon. I couldna leave Davie Flett very well; though I'll not deny I'd rather be a pilot than anything else."
Moreover, as ye had gane out to India, where ye would be mair likely to look after siller than think o' a wife, and as I understand ye had dropped correspondence for some length o' time, ye couldna think yoursel in ony way slighted. Now, folk say that "nineteen nay-says are half a yes." And folk said it was a' on account o' a foolish passion for the doctor laddie that had gane abroad.
"For I couldna stand to see them yearning afore me, and to behold want, like a gnawing worm, eating the flesh from their lovely cheeks. Then, when I had went out wi' the web, Nancy would say to me 'Noo, Nicholas, remember the situation we're in. There's neither food o' ae description nor anither in the house, and ye see the last o' oor coals upon the fire.
"Noo, I hae but the dregs to drink, and them I maun glog ower wi' patience, for I hae weel deserved to drink them! But, eh, my bonnie Isy, she maun hae suffert sair! I daur hardly think what she maun hae come throuw!" "Her mither couldna hae broucht her up richt! The first o' the faut lay i' the upbringin!"
"But, sir," answered Ratcliffe, "I am sure I couldna undertake to guide you to Muschat's Cairn in the night-time; I ken the place as mony does, in fair day-light, but how to find it by moonshine, amang sae mony crags and stanes, as like to each other as the collier to the deil, is mair than I can tell. I might as soon seek moonshine in water."
Tammy, gin ye tak' 'im up to Maister Traill, he'll gie ye the shullin'!" "I couldna tak' 'im by ma lane," was the pathetic confession. "Wad ye gang wi' me, Ailie? Ye could drap ower an' catch 'im, an' I could come by the gate. Faither made me some grand crutches frae an' auld chair back." Tears suddenly drowned the lassie's blue eyes and ran down her pinched little cheeks. "Nae, I couldna gang.
Dougal received these threats with an air of stupid impenetrability, which might arise either from conscious innocence, or from dogged resolution. "If shentlemans were seeking ta Red Gregarach," he said, "to be sure they couldna expect to find her without some wee danger."
An' I watched 'im come along making for that outside cart-shed that 'un that's back to back wi' the shippen, where they foun' Watson lyin'. An' I wor much puzzled by the look on 'im. I didn't think nothink about old Watson, fust of all I didn't know what to think. I was right under the hedge wi' the horses; 'ee couldna' ha' seen me an' I watched 'im.
'If ever we get oot o' this, will ye len' us dew francs? ''Deed, ay. . . . Wullie, ye're riskin' yer life for me. 'Awa' an' chase yersel'! I wonder what that girl o' yours is thinkin' aboot the noo if she's no sleepin'. There was a pause till Macgregor said awkwardly: 'Christina's finished wi' me. 'Eh? 'I couldna tell ye afore; but she had got wind o' Maggie. 'Maggie! Oh, hell!
Her voice was so low I couldna catch her words, but I heard him say: 'God knows ye have my heart; but my honor, my honor. 'I will be content wi' your heart, I heard her answer. 'When will you be ready? For if Dundee hear of it, he will ride south night and day, tho' the whole English army be in his road!
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