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Can't ye speak wi' common sense for once? I'll take ye out o' all this, if you'll gi'e me what I say." He looked black when I refused again. I judged it best to tell my uncle of his offer. He was startled, but made what excuse he could, smiling askance, a pale, peaked smile that haunted me.
'I dinna need to undress for to gi'e ye a hammerin', if that's what ye're efter. But I'm no gaun to dae it here. We'd baith get into trouble. 'Ye're henny, said Willie. Macgregor was more puzzled than angry. Here was Willie positively asking for a punching in public! 'What's wrang wi' ye, Wullie? he asked in a lowered voice. 'Wait till we get oor next leave. The chaps here'll jist laugh at ye.
Ay, man! but it's many a weary mile I've marched in these at the head o' the Ninety-Second, an' it's mony a stark fecht they've been through Vittoria, Salamanca, Talavera, tae Quatre Bras an' Waterloo; tak' 'em, Peter, tak' 'em tae mind ye sometimes o' Donal' Stuart. An' now gi'e us a grup o' ye hand. Gude keep ye, Peter, man!"
I'm sure we might gi'e them the use of the council-chamber, and direk a bit spunk o' fire to be kindl't. It's, ye ken, but for this night they are to be in our aught; and their crime, ye ken, provost, was mair o' the judgment than the heart, and therefore we should think how we are a' prone to do evil."
"Who is it, Sam? one of the old bedesmen?" "Nay, Mrs Kezia; puir soul, 'tis just the auld Vicar!" "Mr Digby!" we all cried together. "Ay; my mither found him deid i' his bed early this morrow. She's come up to tell ye, an' to ask gin' ye can spare me to go and gi'e a haun', for that puir witless body, Mr Anthony Parmenter, seems all but daft."
He saw again the passion she had had for him. It blazed upon her for a moment. He was shy, rather scared, and humble. Yet again he felt his old glow. And then immediately he felt the ruin he had made during these years. He wanted to bustle about, to run away from it. "Gi'e my back a bit of a wesh," he asked her. His wife brought a well-soaped flannel and clapped it on his shoulders.
But the wee lassie refused to be lifted down, and whispered something afresh into her mother's ear, who smiled and bade her be quiet. Philip saw, however, that there was some wish ungratified on the part of the little maiden which he was expected to inquire into, and, accordingly, he did his duty. 'She's a little fool; she says yo' promised to gi'e her a kiss, and t' make her yo'r wife.
"By Jabers," says the king, "I say nothing beats the art o' man, barring the bees." "And do you say no more nor that?" says Saint Kavin. "And that I'm beholden to you," says the king. "But will you gi'e me all the ground the goose flew over?" says Saint Kavin. "I will," says King O'Toole, "and you're welcome to it," says he, "though it's the last acre I have to give."
Now then come forward slow, my covey, slow, and gi'e us a peep o' you churi step cautious now or I'll be the gory death o' you!" Not a little perturbed by these ferocious expressions, I advanced slowly and very unwillingly into the firelight and, halting well out of his reach, spoke in tone as conciliatory as possible. "Pray pardon my intrusion, but "
"Now, Dove," cried the landing-master, "come along; the crabs will be attacking your toes if you don't." "It's a shame to gi'e Ruby the chance o' a sair throat the very first day," cried John Watt. "Just half a minute more," said the smith, examining a pickaxe, which he was getting up to that delicate point of heat which is requisite to give it proper temper.
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