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Burnbrae said afterwards that Lachlan "looked like a ghaist comin' in at the door," but he sat in silence in the shadow, and no one marked the agony on his face till the end. "If that iss all the business, Moderator, I hef to bring a case of discipline before the Session, and ask them to do their duty.
"Trysted with a bogle!" said I; "what do you mean by that, Andrew?" "I said mistrysted," replied Andrew; "that is as muckle as to say, fley'd wi' a ghaist Gude preserve us, I say again!" "Flay'd by a ghost, Andrew! how am I to understand that?"
And yet, aiblins, ye are na sae far out after a'. Like aneuch, he may be infected with the heresy of the Melchisedecians, a pestilent sect, who plagued the early Christian Church sairly, placing their master aboon our Blessed Lord himself, and holding him to be identical wi' the Holy Ghaist. Are ye a Melchisedecian, sirrah?" "I am a believer in the Gospel," the Puritan replied.
I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi' his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets. I dinna believe he speaks gude Latin neither; at least he disna take me up when I tell him the learned names o' the plants."
"I suspec' there winna be muckle o' the hoose left for him to haunt 'gen that time, Grizzie," said the laird. "But what for sud ye put sic fule things intil the bairn's heid? An' gien the ghaist haunt the hoose, isna he better oot o' 't? Wad ye hae him come hame to sic company?" This posed Grizzie, and she held her peace for the time.
"I have wandered here," she said, "like a ghaist, to see you, and nae wonder you take me for ane I thought but to see you gang by, or to hear the sound of your voice; but to speak to yoursell again, Jeanie, was mair than I deserved, and mair than I durst pray for." "O Effie! how came ye here alone, and at this hour, and on the wild seabeach? Are you sure it's your ain living sell?"
'It was their ain damnation, my companion whispered in my ear; 'he was proposin' the murder o' the Saints o' God juist the "sin against the Holy Ghaist" that was his fearsome health. I had climbed into my saddle, and at that moment an unseen plover wailed through the mist. 'Hark! cried my companion, lifting a finger. 'Hark to his soul i' torment!
There's some deevilry at wark there. Stan' ye i' the door, an' ghaist or deevil 'at wad win by ye, grip it, an' haud on like Demon the dog." "She will so, she will so," muttered Duncan in a strange tone. "Ochone! that she'll not pe hafing her turk with her! Ochone! ochone!" Malcolm took the key of the wizard's chamber from his chest and his candle from the table, which he set down in the passage.
She recollected that horrible story of the Ghaist of Manse and of the spectre of Bridgend. In the library she had, a year ago, discovered a strange old book one which sixty years before had been in universal circulation entitled Satan's Invisible World Discovered, and she had read it from beginning to end.
But, troth to tell, whan ye see live fowk sae gien ower to the boady,'at they're never happy but whan they're aitin' or drinkin' or sic like an' the auld captain was seldom throu' wi' his glaiss,'at he wasna cryin' for the whisky or the het watter for the neist whan the boady's the best half o' them, like, an' they maun aye be duin' something wi' 't, ye needna won'er 'at the ghaist o' ane sic like sud fin' himsel' geyan eerie an' lonesome like, wantin' his seck to fill, an' sae try to win back to hae a luik hoo it was weirin'."
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