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Updated: June 23, 2025
"There was a light," the voice said presently, "but it was turned out as I looked." "Then I'll let you in, and God kens I mean no wrang by it." Babbie entered shivering, and Jean rebarred the door. Then she looked long at the woman whom her master loved. Babbie was on her knees at the hearth, holding out her hands to the dead fire. "What a pity it's a fause face." "Do I look so false?"
But the Englishman continued indignant: "Thou hast been selling, hast thou? Ay, ay thou is a cunning lad for kenning the hours of bargaining. Go to the devil with thyself, for I will ne'er see thy fause loon's visage again thou should be ashamed to look me in the face."
Ah, that was a strange, strange thing!" "We have never once spoken of it neither I nor Mr. Gwynne." "Harold could not. He was sair grieved, and bitterly he repented having 'robbed' you. But he was no the same man then that he is now. Ah, that gay young wife of his fair and fause, fair and fause! It's ill for a man that loves such a woman.
You Quaker folk are but fause comforters; but since ye have garred me drink sae muckle cauld yill me that am no used to the like of it in the forenoon I think ye might as weel have offered me a glass of brandy or usquabae I'm nae nice body I can drink onything that's wet and toothsome. 'Not a drop at my cost, friend, quoth Geddes.
'That canna be, Kirsty and it's no like ye to blaw! Your father was a common so'dier and his was cornel o' the regiment! 'Allooin! was all Kirsty's answer. Phemy betook herself to entreaty. 'Lat me gang, Kirsty! Please! I'll gang doon o' my knees til ye! I canna bide him to think I've played him fause. 'He'll play you fause, my lamb, whatever ye du or he think!
And in an instant she opens her eyes and up she sits, and spins herself round, and down wi' her, wi' a clack on her two tall heels on the floor, facin' me, ogglin' in my face wi' her two great glassy eyes, and a wicked simper wi' her wrinkled lips, and lang fause teeth. "Well, a corpse is a natural thing; but this was the dreadfullest sight I ever sid.
Malcolm trembled, but stood his mental ground. "'Deed, mem, I can an' wull promise ye naething!" he said. "Are ye to play a man fause 'cause he's less able to tak care o' himsel' than ither fowk? I doobt, mem, ye hae lost yer chance wi' him and maun du yer best to be content withoot him I'll promise ye this muckle, gien ye like I s' tell him what ye hae said upo' the subjec'."
'No; but Jeremiah Foster does above a bit. He'll come in fro' t' Bank, Kester, and ask for her, a'most ivery day. And he'll bring her things in his pocket; and she's so fause, she allays goes straight to peep in, and then he shifts t' apple or t' toy into another. Eh! but she's a little fause one, half devouring the child with her kisses.
Dame Elspeth, however, though drowned in tears, was not so unmindful of external affairs, but that she could find voice enough to tell the women and children without, to "leave their skirling, and look after the cows that she couldna get minded, what wi' the awfu' distraction of her mind, what wi' that fause slut having locked them up in their ain tower as fast as if they had been in the Jeddart tolbooth."
'No; but Jeremiah Foster does above a bit. He'll come in fro' t' Bank, Kester, and ask for her, a'most ivery day. And he'll bring her things in his pocket; and she's so fause, she allays goes straight to peep in, and then he shifts t' apple or t' toy into another. Eh! but she's a little fause one, half devouring the child with her kisses.
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