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"Weel, cam I no by the tarn o' the tap o' Stieve Know?" "What on earth was ye duin' there efter dark, Grizzie?" "What was I duin'? I saidna I was there efter dark, but the cratur micht hae seen me pass weel eneueh. Wasna I ower the hill to my ain fowk i' the How o' Hap? An' didna I come hame by Luck's Lift?
"Lord preserve 's, Ma'colm!" cried Miss Horn, as soon as he had ended his tale, to which she had listened in silence, with fierce eyes and threatening nose; "isna 't a mercy I wasna made like some fowk, or I couldna ha' bidden to see the puir fallow misguidet that gait! It's a special mercy, Ma'colm MacPhail, to be made wantin' ony sic thing as feelin's."
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'."
With the words she turned her horse's head and rode away, leaving a lump in Malcolm's throat. "I wuss fowk" he still spoke in Scotch in his own chamber "wad du as they're tell't, an' no jeedge ane anither. I'm sure it's Kelpie's best chance o' salvation 'at I gang on wi' her. Stable men wad ha'e had her brocken doon a'thegither by this time; an' life wad ha'e had little relish left."
What's a' this aboot Mrs Forbes and you?" "Grit fowk maunna ride ower the tap o' puir fowk like me, Miss Anderson." "She's a widow, Mr Bruce"-�Annie could not add "and childless"�-"and lays nae claim to be great fowk. It's no a Christian way o' treatin' her." "Fowk maun hae their ain. It's mine, and I maun hae't. There's naething agen that i' the ten tables.
"And my mother," added Maitland, speaking with difficulty, "and that, of course, meant our home and everything. So I thank you for a very happy hour," he added with a smile. "Wad ye care to come again?" said the old lady with a quiet dignity. "We're plain fowk but ye'll be always welcome." "I just will, Mrs. McNish. And I will send you the tickets." "Man! I wish ye grand luck the night.
"'There was a dochter, Leeby? he said. "'Ay, I said, 'she was ta'en first. "I saw 'im put up his hands to his face, an' he cried out, 'Leeby too! an' syne he kind o' fell agin the dyke. I never kent 'im nor nane o' his fowk, but I had heard aboot them, an' I saw 'at it would be the son frae London. It wasna for me to judge 'im, an' I said to 'im would he no come in by an' tak a rest.
"I've heard tell, though," said the sceptical Craigiebuckle, "as Chirsty only cam back to ye because she cudna bear to see the fowk makkin' sae free wi' the whiskey." "I mind hoo she bottled it up at ance and drove the laddies awa'," said Bowie, "an' I hae seen her after that, Tammas, giein' ye up yer fut an' you no sayin' a word."
"Weel, it was an awfu' like thing, ye may be sure, to quaiet fowk, sic as we was a' 'cep' for the drinkin' an' sic like, sin' ever the auld captain cam, wi' his reprobat w'ys it was a sair thing, I'm sayin', to hae a deid man a' at ance upo' oor han's; for, lat the men du 'at they like, the warst o' 't aye comes upo' the women.
It gi'es a body a kind o' a breath or twa i' the middle o' the week, an' it pits naebody aboot. The fowk juist come for their things afore you shut. It disna mak' a hair o' difference. If you didna open ava, they wud juist come the nicht afore.
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