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"It's the truth, Paitrick, but we 'ill gae on wi' our wark, for a'm failin' fast. If the new doctor be a young laddie and no verra rich, ye micht let him hae the buiks an' instruments; it 'ill aye be a help. "But a' wudna like ye tae sell Jess, for she's been a faithfu' servant, an' a freend tae.
Weel, ye see, as I was telling ye, things passed on in this way till I was thirty, when a respectable flesher in Edinburgh that I did a good deal o' business wi', and that had just got married, says to me in the Grassmarket ae day: 'Davy, says he, 'ye're no gaun out o' the toun the night will ye come and tak' tea and supper wi' the wife and me, and a freend or twa?
And yet, if sic a thing were to happen, I would rather come here, than gang to ony freend I hae." As she uttered these words, she made an involuntary motion forward, and would have fallen, had she not supported herself by the wall. "Dear me, Margaret, what's the matter wi' ye?" said Nelly, in a tone of evident alarm. "It's a dizziness i' my head, woman," was the reply.
"The doctors in the toons hae nurses an' a' kinds o' handy apparatus," said MacLure to Drumsheugh when Bell had gone, "but you an' me 'ill need tae be nurse the nicht, an' use sic things as we hev. "It 'ill be a lang nicht and anxious wark, but a' wud raither hae ye, auld freend, wi' me than ony man in the Glen. Ye're no feared tae gie a hand?" "Me feared? No, likely.
Upon the whilk, a horseman, suddenly riding up beside him, said, 'That's a mettle beast of yours, freend; will you sell him? So saying, he touched the horse's neck with his riding-wand, and it fell into its auld heigh-ho of a stumbling trot.
"I have no doubt it is the same." "Will she be a freend o' yer leddyship's?" asked Mrs. Inchbare, feeling her ground cautiously. "Certainly not!" said Lady Lundie. "I felt a passing curiosity about her nothing more." Mrs. Inchbare looked relieved. "To tell ye truth, my leddy, there was nae love lost between us.
"And by my saul, my freend, ye may just as weel finish it noo, for deil a glass o' his ain wine did Bob M'Grotty, as ye ca' him, swallow this day."
'Dae naethin'! echoed Archie, in great wrath. 'Will ye let that freend o' Belzibub rin awa' wid a three hun'red ounces of gold an' dae naethin'? Na, na, ye mauna dae it, I tell ye. Oh, aye, ye may sit there, mem, and glower awa' like a boggle, but ye aren'a gangin' to make yoursel' a martyr for yon. Keep the nugget? I'll see him damned first.
"'The Lord was as an enemy; He hath swallowed up Israel. And I'm thinkin', 'gin He send nae help, and that sune, we're no muckle better than deid men. Eh! weary fa' the day I left my ain pleugh stilts, an' my ain fireside." "Na, na, freend. He that setteth his hand to the plough, let him not look back," answered the Borderer.
"Hallo! stop your jokes," cried the smith; "if you treat us to any more o' that sort o' thing we'll have ye dipped over the side, and hung up to dry at the end o' the mainyard. Fire away, Ruby, my tulip!" "Ay, that's hit," said John Watt. "Gie us the girl ye left behind ye." Ruby flushed suddenly, and turned towards the speaker with a look of surprise. "What's wrang, freend?
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