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Neeven; and I'm sure if I can ever do anything for yon, I'll be as pleased as Punch." Then they were dismissed curtly, but not unkindly; and Gaun Neeven felt his room to be all the darker and lonelier when the mischief-loving laddies were gone. When they got a bit away from the house Harry called a halt. "Look you," said he, "this is no kind of hour in which to invade a decent house.
He has done great wark doon in the west country, an' he is weel fitted and able to be the spokesman for the miners o' Scotlan'. I'm no gaun' to say ony mair, but I can say that it gie's me great pleasure to ask Mr. Smillie to address ye." A round of applause greeted Smillie as he rose to address them.
Here are ye clavering about the Duke of Argyle, and this man Martingale gaun to break on our hands, and lose us gude sixty pounds I wonder what duke will pay that, quotha I wish the Duke of Argyle would pay his ain accounts He is in a thousand punds Scots on thae very books when he was last at Roystoun I'm no saying but he's a just nobleman, and that it's gude siller but it wad drive ane daft to be confused wi' deukes and drakes, and thae distressed folk up-stairs, that's Jeanie Deans and her father.
Did ever ye hear the like? Macgreegor's got five pound frae his Aunt Purdie! Dod, but that's a braw birthday 'She said it was for accidental expenses, stammered the son. Lizzie turned and looked at him. 'What ails ye the day, laddie? 'Uncle Purdie's gaun to keep ma place for me, he floundered. 'Keep yer place for ye! cried John. 'What's a' this aboot accidental expenses? Ha'e ye got hurt?
A second time the few things I had left were put under the hammer o' the auctioneer. 'Oh! said I, 'surely misery and I were born thegither! For we had twa dochters, the auldest only gaun six, baith lying ill o' the scarlet fever in the same bed, and I had to suffer the agony o' beholding the bed sold out from under them. It was more than human nature could endure.
As sure as ye live, his honour Sir Hildebrand is gaun to stick his horn in the bog there's naething but gun and pistol, sword and dagger, amang them and they'll be laying on, I'se warrant; for they're fearless fules the young Osbaldistone squires, aye craving your honour's pardon."
'Good God! said I, 'they are all lost. 'Ay, returned my uncle, 'a' a' lost. They hadnae a chance but to rin for Kyle Dona. The gate they're gaun the noo, they couldnae win through an the muckle deil were there to pilot them. Eh, man, he continued, touching me on the sleeve, 'it's a braw nicht for a shipwreck! Twa in ae twalmonth! Eh, but the Merry Men'll dance bonny!
'I dinna suppose she wud ha'e treated ye excep' she had mair money nor brains. 'She wud pairt wi' her last farden for ma sake! 'Ach, awa' an' eat grass! It's weel seen that men are scarce the noo. 'Mind wha ye're insultin'! 'I'm gaun up to the billet. Macgregor said, shortly, and walked off. Presently, Willie, a new idea in his busy brain, overtook him.
Let the creatures stay at a moderate mailing, and hae bite and soup; it will maybe be the better wi' your father whare he's gaun, lad." After these contradictory instructions, the Laird felt his mind so much at ease, that he drank three bumpers of brandy continuously, and "soughed awa," as Jenny expressed it, in an attempt to sing "Deil stick the Minister."
"Noo, this is a rotten story frae end to end o't," he went on after a short pause to wipe his face with a handkerchief. "I allowed him to ruin my wife's character. I kent it was gaun on a' the time; but like mony mair I hae kent, a manager's favor was mair to me than the honor o' a wife. I let him tak' a share o' the money I made, an' spent my ain to keep him up on drink.
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