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Davie says you tell't him I was very, very guid. And so I am," she ended complacently, "and if any man says the differ...." "He'll do well to keep out of Davie's road and mine," I cut in, as I was building up the cushions into a soft corner for her. "You're an unco' guid lad," she said, wriggling into her nest, "an' if it werena for some one I ken I'd gie ye anither kiss."
That you must leave to him, and do what he tells you. There will be no fear of the saving then though it 's not an easy matter even for him, as has been sorely proved." "An' hoo are we to gie oorsel's up till him? for ye see we're practical kin' o' fowk, huz fisher fowk, Maister Graham," said Bow o' meal. The tone implied that the schoolmaster was not practical.
"Poor chips-in-porridge, you are very unmannerly." "I don't know about that! And I say you be unmannerly! You've got money that isn't your own. Half the guineas are poor Mr. Clym's." "How's that?" "Because I had to gie fifty of 'em to him. Mrs. Yeobright said so." "Oh?... Well, 'twould have been more graceful of her to have given them to his wife Eustacia. But they are in my hands now."
It was a rich scene when Rachel began giving her directions out of 'Hints for the Management of Infants, just in the old voice, and Tibbie swept round indignantly, 'His Lordship, Lord Keith of Gowanbrae, suld hae the best tendance she could gie him.
"Na, sir, but my lord's man sought me out, for he fancies me your honour's valley-de-sham, and sae I am, there's nae doubt o't, baith your honour's and the minister's at least ye hae nae other that I ken o' and I gie a help to Sir Arthur too, but that's mair in the way o' my profession."
'Yo tell her, Muster Saunders, he said, 'to gie it me back! I'll not ast for all on it, but some on it, Muster Saunders some on it. She can't a spent it. She must a got it somewhere. Yo speak to her, Muster Saunders. It's a crule thing to rob an old man like me an her own mother's brother. Yo speak to 'er an yo, too, Mary Anne. He looked piteously from one to the other.
Crawford walked to the door to meet him. He came striding over the soaking moor with his plaid folded tightly around him and his head bent before the blast. He was greatly excited. "Crawford, come wi' me. The Athol passenger packet is driving before this wind, and there is a fishing smack in her wake." "Gie us some brandy wi' us, Mrs.
'What wages ull yo get? inquired Louie sharply. 'Nothin very fat, that's sure, laughed David. 'If Mr. Ancrum can do as he says, an find me a place in a book-shop, they'll, mebbe, gie me six shillin to begin wi. 'An what ull yo do wi 'at? 'Live on't, replied David briefly. 'Yo conno, I tell yo! Yo'll ha food an firin, cloos, an lodgin to pay out o't. Yo conno do 't soa theer.
It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me."
"'You mean, says she, that he'll gie them awa to some ill-off body, as he gies near a' thing he has? Ay, but there's one thing he never parts wi', and that's my work. There's a young lady in the manse the now, says she, 'that offered to finish the mittens for me, but he would value them less if I let ony other body put a stitch into them.
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