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Updated: June 29, 2025
Every body said the man was fey; and truly, when I remarked him so gallant and gay on the Sabbath at the kirk, and noted his glowing face and gleg een, I thought at times there was something no canny about him. It was indeed clear to be seen, that the man was hurried out of himself; but nobody could have thought that the death he was to dree would have been what it was.
"Well, be careful!" he advised, and he thought how delightful it was to have the right to say so much. "O Gilian!" she said helplessly, "you are far from gleg." He gazed ludicrously uncomprehending at her, and in his sense of almost conjugal right to the girl failed to realise her delicacy. "Go round to the barn and make sure that Duncan is not moving; he's the only one I fear," she said.
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."
A moment later he was in the fingers of Gleg the valet in the bath-room, and Stafford set to work to make the breakfast piping hot again. It was an easy task, as heaters were inseparable from his bachelor meals, and, though this was only the second breakfast he had eaten since his return to England after three years' absence, everything was in order.
"Ye were safer to bide whaur ye were; and hoo ye got oot o't 's mair than I can jalouse. We hae scalded aff the rogues wi' het water, and if they're to be keepit aff, I'll hae to be unco gleg wi' the kettle." As he said these words he saw, apparently for the first time, with a full understanding of its significance, the lamp in Count Victor's hands.
"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. * Brisk. 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.
But it's aye the way wi' women; if they ever hand their tongues ava', ye may swear it's for mischief. I wish I could set her on again without this blood-sucker kenning what I am doing. But he's as gleg as MacKeachan's elshin,* that ran through sax plies of bendleather and half-an-inch into the king's heel."
'I'd like to see the man that could mak me believe he'd gien me security for his overdraft when he hadna, interrupted his companion satirically. 'I think I hae heard o' the thing haein' been accomplished, natheless, returned the Minister with a twinkle in his eye. 'Man! acknowledged the banker with a smile, 'but ye're gleg.
"And is the young lady of the same mind?" quoth my Lord, with a quick, gleg slyness. "I am, sir if the business concerns you!" said Irma, looking straight at him. "What, and dare you say that you will take a man like this for your wedded husband?" he demanded, with the swift up-and-down play of his bushy brows which was habitual to him.
'If it is such as you did with Jamie Kennedy, said Lilias, 'it will indeed be well. Oh, Malcolm, I sat and marvelled at ye so gleg ye took him up. How could ye learn it? And ye are a brave warrior too in battles, she added, looking him over with a sister's fond pride. 'We have had no battle, no pitched field, said Malcolm 'but I have seen war.
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