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But I doobt his ear's gleg for ony prayer that gangs up his gait." The last two sentences were spoken aloud as he shook hands with Alec, of whose presence he had been aware from the first, although he had taken no notice of his arrival. Before another word was uttered, their attention was attracted by a large mass floating down the river. "What's that, Thomas?" said Alec.
"Haud awa' wi' ye, laddie, I ken fine what ye'ra ettlin' at, but yon's a braw leddy, no like thae English folk, but a woman o' understandin', an' mair by token I'm thinkin' she'll be gleg aneugh to ken a body that'll serve her weel, an' see to the guidin' o' thae feckless queens o' servant lasses, for bad's the best o' them ye'll fin' hereawa'. Nae fear but her an' me'll put it up weel thegither, an' a' gude be wi' ye baith."
The which speech, in a way of implication, made Deacon Clues to understand that I would not absolutely refuse an honour thrust upon me, while it maintained an outward show of humility and moderation. There was, however, a gleg old carlin among the gossips then present, one Mrs Sprowl, the widow of a deceased magistrate, and she cried out aloud:
And she afterwards confessed that she threw a little of this ungracious sentiment into her accent and manner; for her father being abroad, and the "body," as she irreverently termed the landed proprietor, "looking unco gleg and canty, she didna ken what he might be coming out wi' next."
There were no more little tea-parties and dejeuners chez lui, duly chaperoned by some gracious cousin or aunt for there was no embassy in Europe where he had not relatives. "'Ipped a bit 'ipped. 'E 'as found 'em out, the 'uzzies," Gleg had observed; for he had decided that the general cause of the change in his master was Woman, though he did not know the particular woman who had 'ipped him.
Lady Tynemouth was beside him in an instant. "Yes, that's right you come," he said to her, and he carried the limp body up-stairs, the white violets in her dress crushed against his breast. "Poor child the war, of course; it means so much to them." Thus, a kindly dowager, as she followed the Royalties down-stairs. "A lady to see you, sir." "A lady? What should we be doing with ladies here, Gleg?"
"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.
A gude tale's no the waur o' being twice tauld, I trow; and a body has aye the better chance to understand it. Every body's no sae gleg at the uptake as ye are yoursell, mither." "O, my dear Cuddie, this is the sairest distress of a'," said the anxious mother "O, how aften have I shown ye the difference between a pure evangelical doctrine, and ane that's corrupt wi' human inventions?
Webster was a firm ally, and showed that despite his dissolute and reckless mode of living, he really did possess something of the character which he claimed, that of a gentleman. Under his tuition, and being moreover, like Cuddie Headrigg, "gleg at the uptak," I made rapid progress in knowledge. We made several voyages together.
Instead of the carefully doctored original, I had given the major the duplicate despatch taken from Tybee. Ah, my dears, that was a moment for swift thought and still swifter action; and 'tis the Ireton genius to be slow and sure and no wise "gleg at the uptak'," as a Scot would say. Yet for this once my good angel gave me a prompting and the wit to use it.
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