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Updated: June 5, 2025
"I wonder grandmamma never spoke of it!" "My impression is she never cared to refer to it." "I daresay she believed it." "Weel, I daursay! I wadna won'er!" "What for did ye ca' 't foolish, father?"
The buik may wauk a sense o' want, I daursay, I dinna ken, but it maistly pits intil me the thoucht o' something a body micht weel want, withoot makin me awaur o' wantin 't at that preceese moment. Prayer, with Steenie, as well as with Kirsty, was the utterance, audible or silent, in the ever open ear, of what was moving in him at the time. This was what she now heard him say:
I was ance prood o' that airm" and it was a brawny right arm he stretched out�-"and there was no man within ten mile o' Glamerton 'at cud lift what I cud lift whan I was five-and-twenty. I daursay that luiks gey auld to you, no?
And the lassies were bits o' young things wi' the reid life dinnling and stending in their members; and this was a muckle, fat, crieshy man, and him fa'n in the vale o' years. Say what ye like, I maun say what I believe. It was joy was in the creature's heart; the joy o' hell, I daursay: joy whatever.
Not discouraged by her inspection of his hands, black as they were, Miss St. John continued, 'But what would your grandmother say? she asked. 'She maun ken naething aboot it, mem. I can-not tell her a'thing. She wad greit an' pray awfu', an' lock me up, I daursay. Ye see, she thinks a' kin' o' music 'cep' psalm-singin' comes o' the deevil himsel'. An' I canna believe that.
"I never heard her say that ye was ever cankert, Thomas." "No, I daursay no. She wadna say't. She wadna say't. She was a kin'-herted auld body." "But she didna like to be ca'd auld," interposed Annie, with a smile half in sad reminiscence of her friend's peculiarities, half in gentle humour, seeking to turn the conversation, and so divert Thomas from further self-accusation.
"Weel, I wadna like the trouble nor yet the responsibility." "I daursay not." "Na. Nor yet the shame o' pretennin' to jeedge my betters," added George, now a little nettled, as was generally the result at last of Thomas's sarcastic tone. "George," said Thomas solemnly, "nane but them that has the speerit can ken the speerit."
"Wha's speakin' aboot stars?" says I; "I'm speerin' if your tea's het eneuch?" "O, ay, yea, I daursay; it's a' richt," says Sandy. "I was mindin' aboot Sirias, the nearest fixed star, ye ken. I winder what it's fixed wi'?" Seven o'clock cam' roond, an' Dauvid's bairns gaed throo oor entry like's they'd startit for Sandy's fixed star.
'Well enough. I believe he likes her, Liz, if he would let on. Liz made a grimace. 'I daursay, if he can like onything. I telt her my mind on the business plain, an' offered to get her into our mill. 'Oh, Liz, you might have had more sense! Her work in a mill! cried Walter, with more energy than elegance. 'An' what for no'? queried Liz sharply. 'I suppose she's the same flesh and bluid as me.
Gang hame and learn yer lessons for the morn." "It's Setterday nicht," answered Annie. "But ye hae yer lessons to learn for the Mononday." "Ow ay! But I hae a buik or twa to tak' hame to Mistress Forbes. And I daursay I'll bide, and come to the kirk wi' her i' the mornin'."
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