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"Seven-and-six a week, I suppose," he said to himself as he went down the stairs. "Seven-and-six for a bit of bonhommy." With great consideration he brought Lady Tynemouth up, and shut the door with that stillness which might be reverence, or something at its antipodes. Lady Tynemouth smiled cheerily at Ian as she held out her hand. "Gleg disapproves of me very greatly.
"Ay," said he, "now we have a chance"; and then, looking at me with some amusement, "Ye're no' very gleg at the jumping," said he. At this I suppose I coloured with mortification, for he added at once, "Hoots! small blame to ye! To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. And then there was water there, and water's a thing that dauntons even me.
"Takin' awa' my lugs," returned Phemy. "Ye cratur!" exclaimed Malcolm, "ye're ower wise. Wha wad hae thoucht ye sae gleg at the uptak!" "Whan fowk winna lippen to me " said Phemy and ceased. "What can ye expec," returned Malcolm, while father and mother listened with amused faces, "whan ye winna lippen to fowk? Phemy, whaur's the mad laird?"
He considered the matter carefully in all its bearings, and finally declared for a Newfoundland pup. Any boy more "gleg at the uptak" would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden. As it was, the matter had to be approached all over again from a fresh standpoint. "I want a live dragon," he announced: "you've got to be my dragon!"
"But, wuman," he went on, "I fancy I hae set e'en upo' your e'en afore I canna weel say for yer face. Whaur come ye frae?" "Ken ye a place they ca' Daurside?" she rejoined. "Daurside's a gey lang place," answered Donal; "an' this maun be aboot the tae en' o' 't, I'm thinkin'." "Ye're no far wrang there," she returned; "an' ye hae a gey gleg tongue i' yer heid for a laad frae Daurside."
'It's my brither Sandy, as sure 's deith! he said; 'and he's been hingin' aboot her ever sin' she cam in. But I dinna think she likes him a'thegither by the leuk o' her. 'What for dinna ye gang up till her yersel', man? I wadna stan' that gin 'twas me. 'I'm feared 'at he ken me. He's terrible gleg. A' the Morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk. 'What does 't maitter?
"So you see, Mr I forget yer name Forbes? yes, Forbes, if the rascal takes after his mother, you have made a dangerous enemy," said Mr Cupples, in conclusion. Alec laughed. "I advise you," resumed Mr Cupples, "to keep a gleg ee in yer heid, though seriously. A body may lauch ower aften. It winna do to gang glowerin' at rainbows. They're bonnie things, but they're nae brig-backs.
Swaby halted, and again looked towards the old woman, who was then nearly out of sight. Robin at the same time moved onward. "Friend!" cried the cavalier, "stop. I must have some talk with you about the old " "Whisht!" exclaimed Robin, "she's deevilish gleg o' the hearing. I would na for twenty merks she jealoused that I had telt you to take tent o' her cantrips."
Waverley looks clean-made and DELIVER, and like a proper lad of his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie, And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target, I hae played wi' him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich Ian Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon,
It had been unpacked again by Gleg, and put in the place it had occupied for a day or two before he had gone out of England to do his country's work and to face the bitterest disillusion of his life; to meet the heaviest blow his pride and his heart had ever known. "So that's the lady, is it?" he said, musingly, to the boy, who nodded assent. "Go and have a good look at it," urged Stafford.
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