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We aye keep that i' the hoose, for th' auld servant-body is geyan bad at the cookin', an' she's sae dour an' dowie that to speak but till her we daur hardly mint. In sic divairsions pass the lang simmer days in braid Scotland, but I canna write mair the nicht, for 'tis the wee sma' hours ayont the twal'.
'I daur ye to touch him, spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers, garnished with claws which a vulture might have envied. 'I'll set my ten commandments in the face o' the first loon that lays a finger on him. 'Gae hame, gudewife, quoth the farmer aforesaid; 'it wad better set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here.
Towards morning he had found himself in the town again, and, crossing the Glamour, had wandered up the side of the water, and so come upon the sleepless miller contemplating his mill in the embrace of the torrent. "Ye maun alloo it's hard, Thamas," said the miller. "Hard?" retorted Thomas with indignation. "Hoo daur ye say sic a thing!
'And how comes that? said Bertram. 'Ou, I dinna ken; I daur say it's nonsense, but they say she has gathered the fern-seed, and can gang ony gate she likes, like Jock the Giant-killer in the ballant, wi' his coat o' darkness and his shoon o' swiftness.
I'll suffer death ten thousand-fold afore I see her brought to poverty; sae get a boat get it and if ye daurna gang out, and if nane o' your folk daur gang, Ned and me will gang our tow sels." "Surely ye wad be mad, Harry, to attempt such a thing in an open boat to-night," said the Blyth merchant. "Mad or no mad," answered Harry, "I hae said it, and I am determined.
Falconer, turning and facing her maid. 'In coorse, mem. I only meant I had nae objections to gang wi' ye. 'And what for suld you or ony ither woman that I paid twa pun' five i' the half-year till, daur to hae objections to gaein' whaur I wantit ye to gang i' my ain hoose? 'Hoot, mem! it was but a slip o' the tongue naething mair.
In it, centre and life, lorded the great sun, beginning to cast shadows to the south and east from the endless heaps of the world, that lifted themselves in all directions. Down their sides ran the streams, down busily, hasting away through every valley to the Daur, which bore them back to the ocean-heart through woods and meadows, park and waste, rocks and willowy marsh.
'But, my good friend, Woodbourne is not burnt, said Bertram. 'Weel, the better for them that bides in't, answered the store- farmer. 'Od, we had it up the water wi' us that there wasna a stane on the tap o' anither. But there was fighting, ony way; I daur to say it would be fine fun!
"I daur say no," said Malcolm quietly, and again addressed himself to go. "Do you like novels?" asked the girl. "I never saw a novelle. There's no ane amo' a' Mr Graham's buiks, an' I s' warran' there's full twa hunner o' them. I dinna believe there's a single novelle in a' Portlossie." "Don't be too sure: there are a good many in our library."
Gin it had only been the Almichty's will to hae ta'en her, an' left him, honest man!" "Dinna daur to say a word again' the bairn, mem. The deid'll hear ye, an' no lie still." "Supperstitious quean! Gang an' do as I tell ye this minute. What business hae ye to gang greetin aboot the hoose? He was no drap's bluid o' yours!" To this the girl made no reply, but left the room in quest of Annie.
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