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But I thought it would be better no to wait. Ye see there's a strip of Campbells in that end of Mull, which is no good company for a gentleman like me. If it hadnae been for that I would have waited and looked for ye mysel', let alone giving a hand to the little man." Man, they didnae stop to fash with me! Ye should have seen them linking for the beach!
It's the build o' them, 'Lowlan' or 'Hielan', the breed o' them; the dour hard character o' their country and their mainner o' leevin'. We gied the English a fleg at the 'Forty-five, didnae we? That was where the tartan cam' in: man, there's naethin' like us!" "You do not speak like a Highlander," said Montaiglon, finding some of this gasconade unintelligible.
"Is this my house or yours?" said he, in his keen voice, and then all of a sudden broke off. "Na, na," said he, "I didnae mean that. What's mine is yours, Davie, my man, and what's yours is mine. Blood's thicker than water; and there's naebody but you and me that ought the name."
"Being so," said he, "I would as lief they didnae see me. There's bad folk everywhere, and what's far worse, weak ones. So when it comes dark again, I will steal down into that clachan, and set this that I have been making in the window of a good friend of mine, John Breck Maccoll, a bouman* of Appin's." *A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase.
Na, he didnae ken where the maister was. Sure's daith he didnae ken. Aye, he left Redbraes mebbes twa hour sin', in the darkening. No amount of hectoring, no quantity of loudly shouted oaths could move the grieve from his tale. "A wuss a did ken whaur he is," he said, "but a dinnae ken."
If I didnae feel just sure of the lassie, and that she was awful pleased and chief with Alan, I would think there was some kind of hocus-pocus about you." "And is she so pleased with ye, then, Alan?" I asked. "She thinks a heap of me," says he. "And I'm no like you: I'm one that can tell. That she does she thinks a heap of Alan. And troth!
It's a strange thing that the saul of man should be thirled into his perishable body; but the minister saw that, an' his heart didnae break. She didnae stand there lang; she began to move again, an' cam' slowly toward Mr. Soulis whaur he stood under the saughs. A' the life o' his body, a' the strength o' his speerit, were glowerin' frae his een.
... Bigged a bower on yon burn-brae, And theekit it o'er wi' rashes!" "For gude sake!" said Mungo, terrified again at this mad lilting from a man who had anything but song upon his countenance. "You're sure ye didnae see the letter?" asked the Chamberlain again. "Amn't I tellin' ye?" said Mungo. "It's a pity," said the Chamberlain, staring at the lantern, with eyes that saw nothing.
I didnae come here to stand and haud a candle; it's her and me that are to crack." I suppose she stayed ten minutes in the house, but when she came forth I observed two things that her eyes were reddened, and a silver brooch was gone out of her bosom. This very much affected me.
As for Janet, she cam' an' she gaed; if she didnae speak muckle afore, it was reason she should speak less then; she meddled naebody; but she was an eldritch thing to see, an' nane wad hae mistrysted wi' her for Ba'weary glebe.
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