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Updated: May 14, 2025
But she could grasp the idea of something trying to struggle through desperately, and looked pityingly at the little frail plume of blossom. "And after all these years, to struggle through on this bleak hill! Poor little tree!" she said. "That happens often to folk's lives. They come struggling through tae something very rough and hard. But it's the struggling that matters.
She was growing more eager every moment to serve, if she could, this splendid creature. "We would die for him!" answered the girl quickly. "You would die for him," came the reply, slowly, meaningly. "And what's it to you, if I would?" came the sharp retort. "Why do you fine folk meddle yourselves with poor folk's affairs?"
"And the reversion of the captaincy the captaincy of the Tolbooth, man that is, in case of gude behaviour." "Ay, ay," said Ratcliffe, "gude behaviour! there's the deevil. And then it's waiting for dead folk's shoon into the bargain."
A'll be at t' stile one o'clock punctual; and we'll go slowly into t' town, and look about us as we go, and see folk's dresses; and go to t' church, and say wer prayers, and come out and have a look at t' funeral. And with this programme of proceedings settled for the following Sunday, the girls whom neighbourhood and parity of age had forced into some measure of friendship parted for the time.
By the age of twenty he had risen to be an alderman, yet never to the end could get the better of folk's stubbornness and stupidity, even though he made it his custom to treat all and sundry to food and drink, and to reason with them. No, not even at the last did he attain his due.
I had seen her before only as a wayside appearance, though one that pleased me strangely; I saw her now in a sudden nearness of relation, as the daughter of my blood-foe, and, I might say, my murderer. I reflected it was hard I should be so plagued and persecuted all my days for other folk's affairs, and have no manner of pleasure myself.
Brief, what with his preachings and his tears, he contrived on such wise to inveigle the Venetians that he was trustee and depository of well nigh every will made in the town and guardian of folk's monies, besides being confessor and counsellor of the most part of the men and women of the place; and doing thus, from wolf he was become shepherd and the fame of his sanctity was far greater in those parts than ever was that of St.
'I wonder if yon poor sick chap at Moss Brow would fancy some o' my sausages. They're something to crack on, for they are made fra' an old Cumberland receipt, as is not known i' Yorkshire yet. 'Thou's allays so set upo' Cumberland ways! said her husband, not displeased with the suggestion, however. 'Still, when folk's sick they han their fancies, and maybe Kinraid 'll be glad o' thy sausages.
But you are generally so sensitive to other folk's thoughts of you that your skin tingles to an insult no one dreamt of paying.
"Quiet, lad, you've no call to shout," went on the other calmly. "I'm not meaning to quarrel with you. We've known that girl, I say, since we were youngsters together, and you're a stranger here. And it's like to do her harm. Leave her alone, I say, and don't go making her a byword in folk's mouths, for the sake of one that comes and goes so light and easy as you." "Stranger, you say?"
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