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For, oh, Aminadab! they have strange things in these places, which are much nearer the sun than we are here in this old country. But the mighty Nabob was unwilling to give her to the white-faced lover, even though he was the governor of Bombay, forbye having Balinsloe and Lindertes in Scotland too.

Even their fast days they ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' sea-fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, grilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; and then the awfu' masses and matins of the puir deceived souls But I shouldna speak about them, for your honour will be a Roman, I'se warrant, like the lave."

"Na, na, my lord; there 's nae need. I canna affoord it forbye. We 're no a' made o' siller like yer lordship." "You booby! do you suppose I would tell you to order clothes I did not mean to pay for?" Lady Florimel found her expectation of amusement not likely to be disappointed. "Hoots, my lord!" returned Malcolm, "that wad never du. I maun pey for my ain claes.

"For the things David will think sinful beyond all measure," he argued, "will seem but Puritanical severity to him; forbye, he is rich, gay, handsome, and has little to do with his time, he'll get well on to Satan's ground before he knows it;" and then some whisper dim and low in his soul made him blush and pause and defer the following out of a course which was to begin in such a way.

But ever sin' the distillery stoppit and that was twa year last Martinmas there wasna a hole whaur a Christian could lay his head, muckle less get white sugar to his toddy, forbye the change-house at the clachan; and the auld luckie that keepit it was sair forfochten wi' the palsy, and maist in the dead-thraws.

"Why, then, you poor simpleton," says his Riv'rence, "don't you persave that forbye the advantage the gandher 'ud have in the length ov his neck, it 'ud be next to empossible for the turkey-cock lying thataway to see what he was about, by rason ov his djollars and other accouthrements hanging back over his eyes? The one about as big a bounce as the other!

It was a providence that Miss Thomson was stopping in the house at the time, for she was a woman of by-ordinary discretion and great kindness; so I opened my mind to her, and she said I was right, and gave me a letter to the agent, who was a far-away cousin of her own, and three pounds in money forbye, to buy fitting things for the voyage; and she told me how I was to send money home for the youngsters, and wrote a line to a friend of hers that lived close to the Lowries, asking her to look whiles to see that the bairns were well and thriving.

"I canna min' a word o' 't, Annie. I'm dreidfu' hungry, forbye. I was in a hurry wi' my brakfast the day. Gin I had kent what was comin', I wad hae laid in a better stock," he added, laughing rather drearily. As he spoke he looked up; and his eyes wandered from one window to another for a few moments after he had ceased speaking. "Na; it's no use," he resumed at last.

In fact he declines to do it, and requests that you will send the pony home this afternoon. 'Excuse me, mem, but it's surely enough done that a man make known the presence o' strays, and tak proper care o' them until they're claimt! I was fain forbye to gie the bonny thing a bit pleesur in life: Francie's ower hard upon him. 'You forget, David Barclay, that Mr. Gordon is your landlord!

'My faith, said Vandeloup, carelessly, with a merry laugh, 'gold is as hard to get in its natural state as in its artificial. "An' harder," retorted Archie, "forbye there's nae sic wicked wark aboot it." "Madame will be rich some day," remarked Vandeloup, as they left the office and walked up towards the house. "Maybe she will," replied the other, cautiously.