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"I hold it," he said with an eye on Miss Fountain "to be clearly demonstrable that the Invocation of Saints is, of all things, most lamentably injurious to the Saints themselves!" "Hoo can he knaw?" said Polly to Laura, open-mouthed. But Mrs. Mason frowned. "A doan't hod wi Saints whativer," she said violently. "So A doan't fash mysel aboot em!"
"Ay, but when your honour wadna take your fee ye wadna hae the cause neither, sae I'll ne'er fash you on a Saturday at e'en again. But I was saying, there's some siller in the spleuchan that's like the Captain's ain, for we've aye counted it such, baith Ailie and me." 'No, no, Liddesdale; no occasion, no occasion whatever. Keep thy cash to stock thy farm. 'To stock my farm? Mr.
'Gey bad, ye think, I see, said Liz soberly. 'We're used to it, and dinna fash oor thoombs. She'll be hame the nicht; but he's gotten thirty days, an' we'll hae a wee peace or he comes oot. Gladys looked at the indifferent face of Liz with a vague wonder in her own.
As there was something extra to prepare, the dinner was a little longer of being on the table than usual, at which he began to fash, and every now and then took a turn up and down the room, with his hands behind his back, giving a short melancholious whistle. At length the dinner was served, but it was more scanty than he had expected, and this upset his good-humour altogether.
'I'm thinking ye micht emulate Douglas in his raid on the eastern march: "And he has burn'd the dales of Tyne, And part of Bambroughshire; And three good towers on Reidswire fells, He left them all on fire." That is, if ye hae any fash wi' Wharton, said Arran in conclusion. 'Juist pit the fear o' auld Scotland intil him, for I'll uphaud ye.
It was a kind o' divertisement to me, though whiles the tear wan into my ee, and I said to mysell, What needs I fash wi' grates and carpets and cushions and the muckle brass candlesticks ony mair? for they'll ne'er come hame that aught it rightfully."
"Wha suld if I didna? she was brought up in my arms, and a dear lassie. Ye're no muckle like her, Miss Ellen; ye're mair bonny than her; and no a'thegither sae frack; though she was douce and kind too." "I wish," Ellen began, and stopped. "My dear bairn, there is Ane abuve what disposes a' things for us; and he isna weel pleased when His children fash themselves wi' His dispensations.
"It is, indeed, a different matter which has brought me thus far," said the lawyer man, with a certain diffidence, "but I think that perhaps I ought to wait till till your husband, in fact " "If you are waiting for Weelyum," said Mary Lyon, "ye needna fash. He is o' the same mind as me or will be after I have spoken wi' him. Say on!"
"Why not go to my uncle?" "Puir sugar-and-spice-selling bailie body! is there aught in his ledger about poetry, and the incommensurable value o' the products o' genius? Gang till the young scholar; he's a canny one, too, and he'll ken it to be worth his while to fash himsel a wee anent it."
Don't ye fash about them as lies under ye, or that doesn' lie there either! It'll be time for ye to be getting scart when ye see the tombsteans all run away with, and the place as bare as a stubble-field. There's the clock, and I must gang. My service to ye, ladies!" And off he hobbled.
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