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But just look at our Lord: he never stopped living amongst his people hasn't stopped yet; but he often refused to preach, and personally has given it up altogether now." "Ay, but ye see he kent what he was duin'." "And so will every man in proportion as he partakes of his spirit." "But dinna ye believe there is sic a thing as gettin' a call to the preachin'?"
'Has no young man appeared yet to put Steenie's nose out of joint, Kirsty? asked Gordon. Kirsty thought the question rude, but answered, with quiet dignity, 'No ane. I never had muckle opinion o' yoong men, and dinna care aboot their company. But what are ye thinkin o' duin yersel I mean, whan ye're throu wi' the college? she continued.
Kirsty's nostrils began to quiver, and her lip rose in a curve of scorn. 'A bonnie wife ye wud hae, Francie Gordon, wha, kennin her father duin ilk mortal thing for the love o' his auld maister and comrade, tuik the fine chance to mak her ain o' 't, and haud her grip o' the callan til hersel! Think ye aither o' the auld men ever mintit at sic a thing as fatherin baith?
Them 'at sleepit aneth me, for there was twa men-servan's aboot the hoose that time an' troth there was need o' them an' mair, sic war the gangin's on! an' they sleepit whaur I'm tauld ye sleep noo, Cosmo them 'at sleepit there tellt me 'at never a nicht passed 'at they h'ardna soons 'aneth them 'at there was no mainner o' accoontin' for nor explainin', as fowks sae set upo' duin' nooadays wi' a'thing.
He's aye writin' letters to the newspapers, an' they prent them aboot this an' aboot that aboot beasties i' the watter, an' lectreesity, an' I kenna what a'; an' some says 'at hoo he'll be a rich man some day, the moment he's dune fin'in' oot something or ither he's beenwarslin' at for the feck o' a ten year or sae; but the gentry never thinks naething o' a man sae lang as he's only duin' his best or his warst, as the case may be to lay his han' upo' the siller 'at's fleein' aboot him like a snaw-drift.
"That you have already told us," said the Captain of the Watch; "it is no answer." Cethru's leathern cheeks became wine-coloured, so desirous was he to speak, and so unable. And the Watch sneered and laughed, saying: "This is a fine witness." But of a sudden Cethru spoke: "What would I be duin' killin' rats; tidden my business to kill rats."
But I'mb'un' to say, ootside the risk o' some mistak, o' the gr'un's o' which I can ken naething, for else I wadna hae made it,'at this bit horsie o' yours, by a' 'at my knowledge or skeel, which is naither o' them muckle, can tell me this bit horsie an' gien it binna as I say, I canNOT see what for it sudna be sae only, ye see, laird, whan we think we ken a'thing, there's a heap ahint oor A'THING; an' feow ken better, at least feow hae a richt to ken better, nor I du mysel', what a puir cratur is man, an hoo liable to mak mistaks, e'en whan he's duin' his best to be i' the richt; an for oucht 'at I ken, there may hae been grit discoveries made, ohn ever come to my hearin','at upsets a'thing I ever was gien to tak, an' haud by for true; an' yet I daurna withhaud the conclusion I'm driven til, for maybe whiles the hert o' man may gang the wrang. gait by bein' ower wise in its ain conceit o' expeckin' ower little, jist as weel's in expeckin' ower muckle, an' sae I'm b'un' to tell ye, laird,'at yer expectations frae this knot o'metal, for metal we maun alloo it to be, whatever else it be or bena yer expectations, I say, are a'thegither wrang, for it's no more siller nor my wife's kitchie-poker."
"What wad ye hae me du, than, mem?" "Du? Wha said ye was to du onything? The best duin whiles is to bide still. "Gien I binna to du onything, I maist wiss I hadna kent," said Malcolm, whose honourable nature writhed under the imputed vileness. "It's aye better to ken in what licht ye stan' wi' ither fowk.
"That you have already told us," said the Captain of the Watch; "it is no answer." Cethru's leathern cheeks became wine-coloured, so desirous was he to speak, and so unable. And the Watch sneered and laughed, saying: "This is a fine witness." But of a sudden Cethru spoke: "What would I be duin' killin' rats; tidden my business to kill rats."
Tell me whaur he is, like a guid lassie, Phemy." "I'm no sure. I may say I dinna ken." "Ye say ye ken whan ither fowk disna: noo naebody kens." "Hoo ken ye that?" "'Cause he's run awa." "Wha frae? His mither?" "Na, na; frae Miss Horn." "I ken naething aboot her; but gien naebody kens, I ken whaur he is weel eneuch." "Whaur than? Ye'll be duin' him a guid turn to tell me."
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