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Updated: May 11, 2025
In consequence, in 1858 they made a rule that they would only advance to the bill-brokers at certain seasons of the year, when the public money is particularly large at the bank, and that at other times any application for an advance should be considered excep tonal, and dealt with accordingly.
But do ye ken that I mak sae little by the spinnin' ye mak sae muckle o', that the kirk alloos me a shillin' i' the week to mak up wi'? And gin it warna for kin' frien's, it's ill livin' I wad hae in dour weather like this. Dinna ye imaigine, Mr Bruce, that I hae a pose o' my ain. I hae naething ava, excep' sevenpence in a stockin'-fit.
"Are you taking me to the clouds, cook?" she said, willing to be cheerful, and to acknowledge her obligation for laborious guidance. "Not yet a bit, I hope," answered the cook; "we'll get there soon enough, anyhow excep' you belong to them peculiars as wants to be saints afore their time.
"Ye revive an auld custom, my lord," returned his hostess, not without sign of gratification, " clean oot o' fashion noo-a-days, excep' amang the semple. A laird's wife has no richt to be ca'd MY LEDDY,'cep' by auncient custom." "Oh, if you come to that," returned his lordship, "three fourths of the titles in use are merely of courtesy.
'And whase was that blue coat wi' the bonny gowd buttons upo' 't? asked Robert, who thought he had discovered a new approach to an impregnable hold, which he would gladly storm if he could. 'Lat the coat sit. What has that to do wi' the kilt? A blue coat and a tartan kilt gang na weel thegither. 'Excep' in an auld press whaur naebody sees them.
Derry'll be hum, and sendin' fer me. Then we'll all be earnin' excep' Gus." At the end of the week Amarilly eagerly went to deliver the washings at the rectory and Miss King's, but in both instances she was doomed to disappointment, as her friends were not in. "I'll go to church and see 'em," she resolved.
The Kentuckian shook his head negatively. "No," he said, "at first they were far worse off than befo' because the Freedman's Bureau an' the carpet-baggers made trouble right an' lef'. The No'th had a fine chance, but the carpet-baggers were jes' blind to everythin' excep' the negro, an' the po' white was jes' as shabbily treated by the No'th as he had be'n by the South.
"I guess she was towards thirty, but she seemed even older, 'count o' bein' large an' middlin' knowin'. First I see her was a check gingham sleeve reachin' out an' she was elbowed up clost by me. 'Say, she says, 'couldn't you gimme a nickel? I'm starved hollow. She didn't look it special excep' as thin, homely folks always looks sort o' hungry.
There was a fire which burned up the valley of the South Y.D. Fires don't start themselves usually. This one started among the Landson stacks, so it was natural enough to suspec' Y.D. or some of his sympathizers. Well it wasn't Y.D., an' I reckon it wasn't Zen, an' it wasn't Transley nor Linder an' every one of the gang's accounted for excep' Drazk.
'Maybe I could ha'e endured it till the week was up, if it hadna been for ma auld frien'. Ye see, the puir body couldna speak or think o' onything excep' airyplanes fleein' through the air an' drappin' bombs on her dwellin' hoose an' her hen-hoose, no forgettin' her pig-hoose. Mornin', noon an' nicht, she kep' speirin' at me if I was prepared to meet ma Maker, maybe wantin' a leg.
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