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Dumbiedikes, on comprehending the nature of this application, could scarce trust his ears he made no answer whatever, but stood with his eyes rivetted on the ground. "I see ye are no for assisting me, Laird," said Jeanie, "sae fare ye weel and gang and see my poor father as aften as ye can he will be lonely eneugh now."
Saunders; 'now, or never, Peter, do me a good turn. 'Eneugh said, quoth Peter Drudgeit, no way displeased with his own share in the service required, 'We'se do your bidding. Accordingly, the scribe was presently seen whispering in the ear of Peter Peebles, whose response came forth in the following broken form:
As these emotions subsided, less pleasing considerations began to intrude themselves. "This is a miserable place for ye a'," said Hobbie, looking around him; "I can sleep weel eneugh mysell outby beside the naig, as I hae done mony a lang night on the hills; but how ye are to put yoursells up, I canna see!
And then I thought aye ye wad come back, and I wad get my pickle meal and my soup milk, and keep a' things right about ye as I used to do in your puir uncle's time, and it wad be just pleasure eneugh for me to see ye thrive and guide the gear canny. Ye'll hae learned that in Holland, I'se warrant, for they're thrifty folk there, as I hear tell.
"It was ane that kend what he was saying weel eneugh," replied Jeanie, who had a natural reluctance at mentioning even the name of her sister's seducer. "Wha was it? I conjure you to tell me," said Effie, seating herself upright. "Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now? Was it was it him?" "Hout," said Ratcliffe, "what signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?
They were 'ill eneugh for ony fahl manners, he affirmed.
Like orient pearls at random strung; and therefore, before the current of his associations had drifted farther from the point he had left, he brought him back by some inquiry about Dirk Hatteraick. 'O he's a a gude sort of blackguard fellow eneugh; naebody cares to trouble him smuggler, when his guns are in ballast privateer, or pirate, faith, when he gets them mounted.
'The Mac-Ivors, sir, hae gotten it into their heads that ye hae affronted their young leddy, Miss Flora; and I hae heard mae than ane say, they wadna tak muckle to mak a black-cock o' ye; and ye ken weel eneugh there's mony o' them wadna mind a bawbee the weising a ball through the Prince himsell, an the Chief gae them the wink, or whether he did or no, if they thought it a thing that would please him when it was dune.
I made various inquiries of my friend Mr. Jarvie respecting the names and positions of these remarkable mountains; but it was a subject on which he had no information, or did not choose to be communicative. "They're the Hieland hills the Hieland hills Ye'll see and hear eneugh about them before ye see Glasgow Cross again I downa look at them I never see them but they gar me grew.
Thae smuggler deevils, when ony o' them's killed in a fray, they 'll send for a wife like Meg far eneugh to dress the corpse; od, it's a' the burial they ever think o'! and then to be put into the ground without ony decency, just like dogs.
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