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Certainly the ceremony would have been felt as less humiliating towards almost anybody else, but Arthur endured it; and then was led away to the tents beyond the gate. 'There, sir, said Yusuf, 'it ill sorts your father's son to be in sic a case, but it canna be helpit. I culd na leave behind the bonny Scots tongue, let alane the gude Leddy Hope's son.
'And, said Yusuf, 'these women are no that ill for wives, as I ken owre weel' and he sighed. 'I had as gude and douce a wee wifie at Bona as heart culd wish, and twa bonny bairnies; but when I cam' back frae my rounds, the plague had been there before me. They were a' gone, even Ali, that had just began to ca' me Ab, Ab, and I hae never had heart to gang back to the town house.
'As for that, returned Yusuf, 'the meneester and Beacon Shortcoats, and my auld auntie, and the lave of them, aye ca'ed me a vessel of destruction. That was the best name they had for puir Tam. So what odds culd it mak, if I took up with the Prophet, and I was ower lang leggit to row in a galley?
And yan, if it wes his mynd and will yat he should be disponit vpoun, ye said deaconis and craftismen sould convey him yaire; quha answerit, yat yai culd na way stope ye executioun of justice.
'Sic a sicht as ye never saw, man, returned Sandy; 'the bonniest leddy ever man set his ee upo'. I culd na hae thocht there had been sic a woman i' this warl'. Speyk laicher, man; she'll maybe hear ye. Is she i' the inn there? 'Ay is she, answered Sandy. 'See sic a warl' o' kists as she's brocht wi' her, he continued, pointing towards the pile of luggage.
Then Thom Reed went away fra me in through the yard of Monkcastell, and I thought that he gait in at ane narrower hole of the dyke nor anie erdlie man culd have gone throw, and swa I was something fleit." This was the first time that Thom appeared to her. On the third occasion he asked her "if she would not trow in him." She said "she would trow in ony bodye did her gude."
'I wish yer mother had been alive, the farmer went on. 'She wad hae been rael prood to hear ye play like that. Eh! she likit the fiddle weel. And she culd play bonny upo' the piana hersel'. It was something to hear the twa o' them playing thegither, him on the fiddle that verra fiddle o' 's father's 'at ye hae i' yer han' and her on the piana.
Saddletree; but added that the foreman of the jury had wished her to get the king's mercy, and "nae ma about it." "But can the king gie her mercy?" said Jeannie. "I well he wot he can, when he likes," said her cousin and gave instances, finishing with Porteous. "Porteous," said Jeannie, "very true. I forgot a' that I culd mind maist. Fare ye well, Mrs. Saddletree.
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