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And dinna ye think it'll be a' ower the toon lang or this!" "And hoo will ye meet it, mother?" "We maun tell yer father, and get him to quaiet the soutar! For her, we maun jist stap her mou wi' a bunch o' bank-notts!" "That wad jist mak it 'maist impossible for even her to forgie you or me aither ony langer!" "And wha's she to speyk o' forgivin!" The door opened, and Peter entered.
"We maun forgie our enemies, ye ken," said poor Effie, with a timid look and a subdued voice; for her conscience told her what a different character the feelings with which she regarded her seducer bore, compared with the Christian charity under which she attempted to veil it.
'Gin I could only be a wee bit sorry for them, I reckon he wad forgie me. Dinna ye think he wad, Robert? 'Nae doobt, nae doobt, answered Robert hurriedly. 'They a' say 'at gin a man repents the richt gait, he'll forgie him. He could not say more than 'They say, for his own horizon was all dark, and even in saying this much he felt like a hypocrite.
The soutar opened it himself, and took the minister straight to the ben-end of the house, where Isy sat alone. She rose, and with downcast eyes went to meet him. "Isy," he faltered, "can ye forgie me? And wull ye merry me as sene's ever we can be cried? I'm as ashamed o' mysel as even ye would hae me!" "Ye haena sae muckle to be ashamet o' as I hae, sir: it was a' my wyte!"
And thus they were situated, lover-like, when a low, rapt voice broke in on them, 'A dear-lov'd lad, convenience snug, A treacherous inclination. "Oh, Wullie, I wush you were here!" It was little M'Adam. He was leaning in at the open window, leering at the young couple, his eyes puckered, an evil expression on his face. "The creetical moment! and I interfere! David, ye'll never forgie me."
"Ye'll no tell Bell that?" he asked, anxiously. "Tell her what?" "Aboot me an' Mysy." "We'll see hoo ye behave yersel, Sam'l." "No 'at I care, Eppie; ye can tell her gin ye like. I widna think twice o' tellin' her mysel." "The Lord forgie ye for leein', Sam'l," said Eppie, as he disappeared down Tammy Tosh's close. Here he came upon Henders Webster. "Ye're late, Sam'l," said Henders. "What for?"
It was joy was in the creature's heart; the joy o' hell, I daursay: joy whatever. Nae doubt they burn for it in muckle hell, but they have a grand time here of it, whatever! and the Lord forgie us! Weel, at the hinder end, we saw the wee flag yirk up to the mast-heid upon the harbour rocks. That was a' Sandie waited for. He up wi' the gun, took a deleeberate aim, an' pu'd the trigger.
'I wad by no means, said Peter Peebles, 'do any substantial harm to the poor lad Fairford, who has had mony a gowd guinea of mine, as weel as his father before him; but I wad hae him brought back to the minding of my business and his ain; and maybe I wadna insist further in my action of damages against him, than for refunding the fees, and for some annual rent on the principal sum due frae the day on which he should have recovered it for me, plack and bawbee, at the great advising; for ye are aware, that is the least that I can ask NOMINE DAMNI; and I have nae thought to break down the lad bodily a'thegither we maun live and let live forgie and forget.
"I'll get a blanket," Bill said, rising. "There come the men! That you, Ian?" The smith and a crowd of pale faces crashed up the stairs. "God forgie us! We let him by the garden, sir. Alec thought he " "Gosh, Onnie!" said Bill, "excuse me! I'll get some clothes on. Here, Ian " "Onnie," said Sanford, in the doorway "Onnie, what's the matter?"
'Lord forgie ye, Ensign Maccombich, said the alarmed Presbyterian; 'I'm sure the colonel wad never do the like o' that! 'Hout! hout! Mrs. Flockhart, replied the ensign, 'we're young blude, ye ken; and young saints, auld deils. 'But will ye fight wi' Sir John Cope the morn, Ensign Maccombich? demanded Mrs. Flockhart of her guest. 'Troth I'se ensure him, an' he'll bide us, Mrs.
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