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Polly Ann replied, with a merry peal of laughter, "You are both jealous of Tom both of you. But, Davy, when you see him you'll love him as much as I do." "I'll not," I said sturdily. "He's a man to look upon " "He's a rip-roarer," old man Ripley put in. "Ye're daft about him." "That I am," said Polly, flushing and subsiding; "but he'll not know it."
Emily had no answer ready; but now, as she had wondered what their mother would have felt, she wondered what John would have felt at this utter misunderstanding, this taking for granted that he loved her, and that she did not love him. A sensitive blush spread itself over her face. "She's daft to refuse the laird of Cockpen." Scotch Ballad. And now John Mortimer had again possession of his ring.
Eliza stared at him as though she really believed him daft. Then she said, mockingly: "Is that all? Just make him love me?" Dan nodded. "That would be fine, if you could manage it." "Why you you I " She gasped uncertainly for terms in which to voice her indignant surprise. "Idiot!" she finally exclaimed. "Thanks for such glowing praise," Dan said, forlornly. "I feel a lot worse than an idiot.
We keept the twa boats closs for company, and crap in nearer hand. Grandfaither had a gless, for he had been a sailor, and the captain of a smack, and had lost her on the sands of Tay. And when we took the gless to it, sure eneuch there was a man. He was in a crunkle o' green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a' by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin'.
Isna that a queer dream for a daft auld carline? What for should ony o' them dee before me? it's out o' the course o' nature, ye ken."
"said Meg from her bed, no more surprised than if the knock had been upon the outer door at midday. "It's me, daft Jock Gordon," said Jock candidly. "Gae wa' wi' ye, Jock! Can ye no let decent fowk sleep in their beds for yae nicht?" "Ye maun get up, Meg," said Jock. "An' what for should I get up?" queried Meg indignantly. "I had ancuch o' gettin' up yestreen to last me a gye while."
Sylvester dallied about Lena until he began to make mistakes in his work; had to stay at the bank until after dark to make his books balance. He was daft about her, and every one knew it. To escape from his predicament he ran away with a widow six years older than himself, who owned a half-section. This remedy worked, apparently.
There's a sair spang o' the auld sin o' the world in yon sea; it's an unchristian business at the best o't; an' whiles when it gets up, an' the wind skreighs the wind an' her are a kind of sib, I'm thinkin' an' thae Merry Men, the daft callants, blawin' and lauchin', and puir souls in the deid-thraws warstlin' the leelang nicht wi' their bit ships weel, it comes ower me like a glamour.
"Hoity-toity, why not?" "Keep at heyame after nightfall, and don't ye be walking by yersel' by daylight or any light lang lonesome ways, till after ye're baptised," said Mall Carke. "I'm like to be married first." "Tak care that marriage won't hang i' the bell-ropes," said Mother Carke. "Leave me alane for that. The young lord said he was maist daft wi' luv o' me.
"His health was not bad; no, he was a hardy lad, and liked a walk over the fells, or a pull on the lake; but he was a bit daft, every one said, and a changed man; and, in troth, they say the air o' Mardykes don't agree with every one, no more than him. But that's a tale that's neither here nor there." "Yes," said William, "that was what they told me his mind affected. God help and guard us!
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