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"Ye're a doure-headed man," said Deacon Fulton, "and really ye hae gi'en me sic a cast o' your knowledge that I can do no less than make you a return; so tak this, and bide nae langer in Paisley than your needs call." With that he laid his purse on the table and went away.
Your will is my pleasure, mistress; for my Luke hath got his supper i' the air. He is digging to-day by good luck." "Eh, woman, yon is an ugly trade. There she has just washed her face and gi'en her hair a turn, and now who is like her? Rotterdam, that for you!" and Catherine snapped her fingers at the capital. "Give us a buss, hussy! Now mind, Eli won't wait supper for the duke.
"'I've seen i' the Bible, said I, 'that man was gi'en "dominion ower the beasts o' the earth an' the fowls o' the air," but I canna do as I'd wush wi' thae cursed geese ower there. "'Verra richt; ye're verra richt, young man, said he. 'What wud ye gie to be able to kill as mony fowl as ye list, an' never miss ava? "It seemed as I were mad at th' thocht. 'I'd gie my saul, said I.
Their work had been so idealized for them it had been endowed with so much meaning it seemed so different from an ordinary "raising" that they lost, momentarily, the consciousness of their own roughness and the homeliness of their surroundings. "Be gorry!" exclaimed Mike, who was the first to break the silence, "I'd 'a' gi'en a dollar if me owld woman could 'a' heard that.
Ye hae gi'en me nae cause to doobt yer word. Indeed, during Robert's absence, his grandmother had had leisure to perceive of what an absurd folly she had been guilty.
When I gived my vote to Measter Cholmley to go up to t' Parliament House, I as good as said, 'Now yo' go up theer, sir, and tell 'em what I, Dannel Robson, think right, and what I, Dannel Robson, wish to have done. Else I'd be darned if I'd ha' gi'en my vote to him or any other man. Div yo' think I'd send up Measter Cholmley to speak up for that piece o' work?
"Ay, the minister brought yon puir lassie a message frae the gude Lord `Yet return again to Me' and she just took it as heartily as it was gi'en, and went and fand rest puir, straying, lost sheep! but when she came to the table o' the Lord, the ninety and nine wad ha'e nane o' her she was gude eneuch for Him in the white robe o' His richteousness, but she was no near gude eneuch for them, sin she had lost her ain and not ane soul i' a' the parish wad kneel down aside o' her.
'Wal, Davy, did yo hear that? said 'Lias, presently, looking round on the boy with a doubtful countenance, after Cromwell had given an unctuous and highly Biblical account of the slaughter at Drogheda and its reasons. 'How mony did lie say he killed at that place? asked the boy sharply. 'Thoosands, said Dawson, solemnly. 'Theer was naw mercy asked nor gi'en.
I don't know how it could look better." "Thee dostna know? Nay; how's thee to know? Th' men ne'er know whether the floor's cleaned or cat-licked. But thee'lt know when thee gets thy parridge burnt, as it's like enough to be when I'n gi'en o'er makin' it. Thee'lt think thy mother war good for summat then." "Dinah," said Seth, "do come and sit down now and have your breakfast. We're all served now."
'I've been whaling mysel', said he; 'and I've heerd tell as whalers wear knives, and I'd ha' gi'en t' gang a taste o' my whittle, if I'd been cotched up just as I'd set my foot a-shore. 'I don't know, said Philip; 'we're at war wi' the French, and we shouldn't like to be beaten; and yet if our numbers are not equal to theirs, we stand a strong chance of it.
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