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I hae neither this, nor that, to say to you; and I'm busy the day." "I spoke to your fayther and your brother Will, anent a marriage between us, and you heard tell o' it." "Ay, they told me." "And you let me walk wi' you frae the kirk on the next Sabbath. I'm no going to be jilted, Maggie Promoter, by you." "Dinna daur to speak that way to me, Angus.

Then she started up, clasping the child convulsively, and faced the doctor. "Ye lee, ye ugly creeping Englisher! How daur ye speak so of ane o' the Rothesays, frae the blude o' whilk cam the tallest men an' the bonniest leddies ne'er a cripple amang them a How daur ye say that my master's bairn will be a . Wae's me! I canna speak the word."

"Noo God forgi'e ye, Maister Crathie, for threipin' sic a thing!" cried Lizzy, rising as if she would leave him; "Ma'colm MacPhail 's as clear o' ony sin like mine as my wee bairnie itsel'." "Do ye daur tell me he's no the father o' that same, lass?" "No, nor never will be the father a' ony bairn whase mither 's no his wife!" said. Lizzy, with burning cheeks and resolute voice.

We finally got our rafts built, over eighty in number, and arranged for enough Arab pilots to take care of half of them. On the remainder we put Indian sepoys. They made quite a fleet when we finally got them all started down-stream. Two were broken up in the rapids near Daur, the rest reached Samarra in safety on the second day.

"Oh, keeping things in order generally, and running about after little dakus that's dacoits -and so on. There's nothing to explain." "Make that young Leviathan speak," said Cleever impatiently, above his glass. "How can he speak?" said I. "He's done the work. The two don't go together. But, Infant, you're ordered to bukb." "What about? I'll try." "Bukb about a daur.

"I am sure that there is something brewing, an' a dangerous something too. Daur ye no trust me? Ye may think me a weak an' silly creature; but, if I am not just so rash and outspoken as my mother, try me if I haena as stout a heart when there is a necessity for showing it."

Fearful of having his last remark contradicted for he had an instinctive desire that it should lie undisturbed where he had cast it in the field of Ericson's mind, he hurried to another question. 'What for shouldna ye be a doctor? 'Now you'll think me a fool, Robert, if I tell you why. 'Far be it frae me to daur think sic a word, Mr. Ericson! said Robert devoutly.

"Ye muckle lump!" she cried shrilly, the two scraggy muscles of her neck standing out long and thin as she screamed; "ye muckle lump to strike a defenceless wean! Dinna greet, my lamb; I'll no let him meddle ye. Jock Gilmour, how daur ye lift your finger to a wean of mine? But I'll learn ye the better o't! Mr. Gourlay'll gie you the order to travel ere the day's muckle aulder.

"It 'll be a doon-come tae him, a 'm judgin', an' 'll no be for the gude o' the parish. He 's never been crossed yet, an' he 'll no tak weel wi' contradickin' . . ." "She wudna daur," broke in Whinny, "an' him the beadle." "Ye ken little aboot weemen," retorted Hillocks, "for yir gude-wife is by hersel' in the pairish, an' micht be a sanct; the maist o' them are a camsteary lot.

Na, na he canna pit aff the paper here; folk will misdoubt him how he came by it. Na, na he'll hae the stuff safe at some o' their haulds in the Hielands, and I daur say my cousin Rob could get at it gin he liked." "But would he be disposed to serve us in this pinch, Mr.