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Instead of receiving this statement with gratitude, Gleg had sniffed in a manner which, in any one else, would have been impertinence; and he had not even offered thanks. "Well, what do you think she wants? She looks respectable?" "I don't know about that, sir. It's her ladyship, sir." "It's what 'ladyship, Gleg?" "Her ladyship, sir Lady Tynemouth."
What answer he got was brief, the ancient warrior pointing at the same time with his right hand towards a certain part of the city, and giving a Belial smile of significance; whereupon Sir David turned round without going into the court of the castle, and bidding my grandfather give the man the beasts and follow, which he did, they walked together under the town wall towards the east till they came to a narrow sallyport in the rampart, wherewith the priory and cathedral had of old been fenced about with turrets and bastions of great strength against the lawless kerns of the Highlands, and especially the ships of the English, who have in all ages been of a nature gleg and glad to mulct and molest the sea-harbour towns of Scotland.
"Skye would have been better," suggested Dalmahoy, without moving an eyelid. "Skye? Dear me capital, capital! Only, you see," he urged, "she wouldn't expect me to be in Skye." A minute later he drew me aside. "Excellent company your friend is, sir: most gentlemanly manners; but at times, if I may so say, not very gleg." My hands by this time were numb with cold.
This annoyed me, I confess, and John Splendid was gleg enough to see it "I mean," he added, "you caught no fever for paper and ink, though you may have learned many a quirk I was the better of myself. I could never even write my name; and I've kept compt of wages at the mines with a pickle chuckie-stones." "That's a pity," says I, drily.
Tibb remarked, "She aye thought Halbert was ower gleg at his weapon to be killed sae easily by ony Sir Piercie of them a'. They might say of these Southrons as they liked; but they had not the pith and wind of a canny Scot, when it came to close grips." On Mary Avenel the impression was inconceivably deeper.
Fie on ye! man, fie! you have not once gone to see the Provost or his daughter since I saw you last I dare not go myself for the sake of a very stupid blunder; but I met the old man coming up the way an hour ago, and he was asking what ailed you at them. Will I tell you something, Colin? The Provost's a gleg man, but he's not so gleg as his wife.
"He will be buried to-morrow, and there's an end of it all. It will not even be the usual nine days' wonder. I'd forget it, if I were you." "I can't easily forget it while you remember it," she rejoined, meaningly. "I don't know why or how it affects you, but it does affect you, and that's why I feel it; that's why it haunts me." Gleg appeared.
Gang in by, and be a better bairn another time, and tell Peggy to gie ye a bicker o' broth, for ye'll be as gleg as a gled, I'se warrant ye. It's a fatherless bairn, Mr. Saddletree, and motherless, whilk in some cases may be waur, and ane would take care o' him if they could it's a Christian duty."
'Ye canna du better nor weel; jist begin again. 'I had coft her a bonny cairriage, wi' as fine a pair as ever ye saw, Kirsty, as I daursay yer father has telled ye. And they warna lost upon her, for she had aye a gleg ee for a horse. Ye min' yon powny? And up til yesterday, a' gaed weel, till I was thinkin I cud trust her onygait.
"Wark, stir, wark, and a service, is my object a bit beild for my mither and mysell we hae gude plenishing o' our ain, if we had the cast o' a cart to bring it down and milk and meal, and greens enow, for I'm gay gleg at meal-time, and sae is my mither, lang may it be sae And, for the penny-fee and a' that, I'll just leave it to the laird and you.
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