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He said not a word; then his eyes grew moist. "To think as he could have loved a daft fule like me so well as that! Me that never done nothin' no, not so much as to catch a dish of trout for un, now an' again, when he was here." "You couldn't, bein' water-keeper." "What matter for that? I ought to have poached for un, seein' the manner of man he was." He kept silence for a while, then burst out
"Hold me tight," the doctor whispered to Gavin, "or I'll be leaving you to drive Nanny to the poorhouse by yourself." He had no sooner said this than he tried to jump out of the trap. "You donnert fule, John Robbie," he shouted to a player, "soop her up, man, soop her up; no, no, dinna, dinna; leave her alane. Bailie, leave her alane, you blazing idiot. Mr.
As we parted in different directions, the good woman said, 'Oh, sir, if ye wad but ask Willie to tell ye ane of his tales to shorten the gate! He can speak like ony minister frae the pu'pit, and he might have been a minister himsell, but' 'Haud your tongue, ye fule! said Willie, 'But stay, Meg gie me a kiss, ne maunna part in anger, neither. And thus our society separated.
Therewith he repeated the rime, and Grannie burst into a merry laugh which however sobered rather suddenly. "I dinna won'er I was sayin' ower thae fule words," she said, "for 'deed I was dreamin' o' the only ane I ever h'ard say them, an' that was whan I was a lass maybe aboot thirty.
In the winter the family living in San Diego; have big house there and dance every night, horseback in day when no rain, and have so many races and games. Ay, yi! All the girls so pretty. No wear hats then; the reboso, no more, or the mantilla; fix it so gracerful; and the dresses so bright colours, sometimes with flowers all over; the skirt make very fule, and the waist have the point.
"Ay," said Robbie, in great disgust, "the daft eejut, he wad mak a fule o' onything or onybuddie." That was the sorest point with poor Robbie. Bill had not only cast doubts upon his religious sincerity, which the little man could not endure, but he had also held him up to the ridicule of the community, which was painful to his pride.
"W'y," growled the red-faced innkeeper, bringing his big fist down with a bang, "it's a-comin' to per dition; that's wot it's a-comin' to!" "And wot," inquired a rather long, bony man with a face half-hidden in sandy whisker, "wot might per dition be, Joel; likewise, wheer?" "You must be a danged fule, Tom, my lad!" retorted he whom they called Joel, redder in the face than ever.
"I was sayin' what ye wadna hearken till, an that's enouch," she answered, willing to show offence. "Say 't again, gran'mamma, if you please. I wasna noticin'." "Na! Is' warran' ye frae noticin'! There ye winna gang, whaur yer ain fule fancy does na lead the w'y.
But my son Saunders was readin' to me the ither nicht in a fule history buik, an' there it said that amang the Papists they used to hae fowk that didna do as they did an' believe as they believed. What say ye to that?" Mrs. Mowdiewort's lecture on church history was not at all appreciated by the session. The minister rose. "We will close this sederunt," he said; "we can mak' nocht o' these two.
I am sure I would put neither king's nor kaisar's, nor ony earthly creature's, afore them." "How mean ye by that, ye auld fule woman? D'ye think that I order ony thing against conscience?"
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