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My mother had ance a bonny Cu'ross girdle, and I thought to have baked carcakes on it for my puir wean that's dead and gane nae fair way But we maun a' dee, ye ken, Jeanie You Cameronian bodies ken that brawlies; and ye're for making a hell upon earth that ye may be less unwillin' to part wi' it.
"Weel," said the knave, when he had warily led him into the abbey kirk-yard, "I didna think ye would hae gane back to my Lord; but it's a' very weel, since he has looked o'er what's past, and gi'en you a new dark." "He's very indulgent," replied my grandfather, "and I would be looth to wrang so kind a master;" and he looked at Winterton. The varlet, however, never winced, but rejoined lightly,
My gudesire kend mony that had long before gane to their place, for often had he piped to the most part in the hall of Redgauntlet. There was the fierce Middleton, and the dissolute Rothes, and the crafty Lauderdale; and Dalyell, with his bald head and a beard to his girdle; and Earlshall, with Cameron's blude on his hand; and wild Bonshaw, that tied blessed Mr.
But Jean Liltup, that was auld Singleside's housekeeper, and the mother of these twa young ladies that are gane the last o' them's dead at a ripe age, I trow Jean Liltup came out o' Liddel water, and she was as near our connection as second cousin to my mother's half-sister She drew up wi' Singleside, nae doubt, when she was his housekeeper, and it was a sair vex and grief to a' her kith and kin.
"The puir bairn!" said auld Edie, "an he sleeps in this damp hole, he'll maybe wauken nae mair, or catch some sair disease. It's no the same to him as to the like o' us, that can sleep ony gate an anes our wames are fu'. Sit up, Maister Lovel, lad! After a's come and gane, I dare say the captain-lad will do weel eneugh and, after a', ye are no the first that has had this misfortune.
"Sic a noise I never heard i' my life; and yet I dinna like to gae near him afore I get my claes on; but that's awfu Jock, man, what's the matter wi' ye? Na, no ae word will he speak, but roar and cry as if somebody were stickin him. Jock, man, it's me it's your auld acquaintance, Nelly, but tell me, Jock, hae ye gane clean out o' yer judgment?"
She put down the herbs, then brought a pan of water and set it down upon the door-step, and herself beside it. "It helps onything that's still and clear! Wait till the ripple's gane, and then dinna speak to me. But gin I see onything, it will na be sae great a thing as a soul's desire." She sat still and he stood still, leaning against the side of her house. Mother Binning sat with fixed gaze.
Drysdale his account, which he wasna noo for acceptin sayin that, if we had the sma'est occasion for the money, to use it freely, without regardin them and havin thanked him for his advice as to counteracting the evil report that had gane abroad respectin us, I hurried awa to put it in execution; and thinkin it very hard to be subjected to a' this trouble sae innocently, and to hae, at ane and the same time, a pair o' such calamities sae oddly thrust upon me, as my ain death, and the bankruptcy o' my faither.
He was surprised and not altogether pleased to find that his visitor was none other than Saft Tammie, who at once opened fire on him: 'I maun gang awa' t' the post; but I thocht that I would waste an hour on ye, and ca' roond just to see if ye waur still that fou wi' vanity as on the nicht gane by. An I see that ye've no learned the lesson. Well! the time is comin', sure eneucht!
If the sick man needs anything o' that kind, I shall gie it wi' my ain hand; and you wont leave this house, David, until I see whether Robert is to live or die. You must gie me your word o' honor for that." "Minister, pray what is my word worth?" "Everything it promises, David Callendar. I would trust your word afore I'd trust a couple o' constables, for a' that's come and gane."
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