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"The strange thing is that ye seem to have a kind of a fancy for her too!" said Alan. "The biggest kind, Alan," said I, "and I think I'll take it to my grave with me." "Well, ye beat me, whatever!" he would conclude. I showed him the letter with Catriona's postcript. "And here again!" he cried. "Impossible to deny a kind of decency to this Catriona, and sense forby!
Neither he nor his sweetheart have, I take it, been accustomed to do without wants; and their income will be tight enough forby what you can do for them." The colonel sat and still looked pleasant, but he began to think that it might be as well for him that he was back at Littlebath. "Poor George! I hope they will be happy.
It's all very well for the lords of the manor and such sort of folk to make their wills, for, what with one thing and another, their property runs cross and cross, and there's scarce any knowing what way it lies; but for a statesman owning maybe a hundred or two of acres and a thousand or two of sheep, forby a house and the like, it's not needful at all. The willing is all done by the law."
"And when will that be, I would like to ken?" "Well, Alan, I have had some thoughts of that, too," said I; "and my plan is this. It's my opinion to be called an advocate." "That's but a weary trade, Davie," says Alan, "and rather a blagyard one forby. Ye would be better in a king's coat than that."
"Good God!" said I "so young, so beautiful, so early lost!" "Troth ye may say sae she's in a manner lost, body and saul; forby being a Papist, I'se uphaud her for" and his northern caution prevailed, and he was again silent. "For what, sir?" said I sternly. "I insist on knowing the plain meaning of all this." "On, just for the bitterest Jacobite in the haill shire."
Her defense of doing it in the early hours of the Sabbath was: "Sure God has more important work to do than to sit up late to watch us mend the boots of the poor; forby it's better to haave ye're boots mended an' go to church than to sit in th' ashes on Sunday an' swallow the smoke of bad turf!"
"Guide and deliver us! twenty mile twenty mile on your feet!" ejaculated Dumbiedikes, whose walks were of a very circumscribed diameter, "Ye maun never think o' that come in by." "I canna do that, Laird," replied Jeanie; "the twa words I have to say to ye I can say here; forby that Mrs. Balchristie." "The deil flee awa wi' Mrs. Balchristie," said Dumbiedikes, "and he'll hae a heavy lading o' her!
But, were he to tak a wife, he wad hae to get new beds, and new chairs, and a hantle whigmaleeries forby, that wad cost him nae little siller; he wad hae to buy fykes to her in ilka market, and in ilka shop he cam past not to mention bairns' meat and bairns' claes mair o' baith, maybe, than the place wad afford."
Puir Cuddie! he's gane, puir fallow, that wad hae dune aught in the warld I bade him, and ne'er asked a reason an' I've had nae time to draw up wi' the new pleugh-lad yet; forby that, they say he's gaun to be married to Meg Murdieson, illfaur'd cuttie as she is." "You must find some one to go, Jenny; life and death depend upon it."
"But what saw she in the bog, then," said Dame Glendinning, "forby moor-cocks and heather-blutters?" "The wean saw something like a white leddy that weised us the gate," said Tibb; "when we were like to hae perished in the moss-hags certain it was that Shagram reisted, and I ken Martin thinks he saw something." "And what might the white leddy be?" said Elspeth; "have ye ony guess o' that?"
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