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'I was coming to ask, said David, 'if thou wouldst not own thyself to my father, and take thy proper place ere ganging farther south. It irks me to see some of the best blood in Scotland among the grooms. 'It must irk thee still, Davie, returned George.
'Hey, Throttler, lad! whispered the little wretch, rousing a half-bred bull-dog from its lair in a corner. 'Now, wilt thou be ganging? he asked authoritatively. Love for my life urged a compliance; I stepped over the threshold to wait till the others should enter. Mr.
Tak' these things awa', and let's have soomat broiled for sooper vary comfortable and plenty o' it at ten o'clock. Bring soom brandy and soom wather, and a pair o' slippers the largest pair in the house and be quick aboot it. Dash ma wig! said John, rubbing his hands, 'there's no ganging oot to neeght, noo, to fetch anybody whoam, and ecod, we'll begin to spend the evening in airnest.
"I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport," said the wanderer; "I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster" "Confound thee! I desired thee not to mention that to me."
I was ganging about at ony rate Oh, but I was blythe when I got out of Prison, though; for I thought, what if that weary letter should come when I am closed up here like an oyster, and a' should gang wrang for want o't? and whiles I thought I maun mak a clean breast and tell you a' about it; but then I couldna weel do that without contravening Mr.
"O, hinny, hinny!" said she to Cuddie, hanging upon his neck, "glad and proud, and sorry and humbled am I, a'in ane and the same instant, to see my bairn ganging to testify for the truth gloriously with his mouth in council, as he did with his weapon in the field!" "Whisht, whisht, mither!" cried Cuddie impatiently. "Odd, ye daft wife, is this a time to speak o' thae things?
Hadoway says. She wishes muckle he could be gotten to take a walk; she thinks he's but looking very puirly, and his appetite's clean gane; but he'll no hear o' ganging ower the door-stane him that used to walk sae muckle too." "That's wrong I have a guess what he's busy about; but he must not work too hard neither. I'll go and see him this very day he's deep, doubtless, in the Caledoniad."
So he sat on a bench outside the little mountain house, thirty-six hundred feet above sea-level, where there were no visitors at this early season, with the exception of the experimenting party, and, between whiffs of his pipe, discoursed upon the folly of simple earth folk in "ganging beyant themselves, thinking o' clacking wi' the Man in the Moon, forbye" and, in tones seemingly bewitched, of the black shape he had seen jump forth from the woods.
Girder, old Dame Loup-the-Dyke, and the goodman of the dwelling "Mr. Caleb! Mr. Caleb Balderstone! I hope ye arena ganging dry-lipped by our door, and we sae muckle indebted to you?" This might be said ironically as well as in earnest.
"I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport," said the wanderer; "I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster" "Confound thee! I desired thee not to mention that to me."
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