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"Amn't I the terrible ould ruffian to go upsettin' ye that way!" he groaned remorsefully. "There now, Miss Elleney, don't mind me. I'm not meself to-day. I'm a regular ould gomeril. Sure it had to come sooner or later. It's meself knew very well I'd have to stan' by and see ye carried off some fine day by whoever was lucky enough to get ye.
"And an unco fright ye gae me when ye cam ahint and took a grip o' me," said Jenny, giving him a sly twitch with her finger and her thumb "if ye hadna been an auld acquaintance, ye daft gomeril"
"But to be sure, we shall have the time to speak of these, since your father is so good as to make me for a while your inmate; and the gomeril begs you at this time only for the favour of his liberty." "You give yourself hard names," said she. "Mr. Doig and I would be blithe to take harder at your clever pen," says I. "Once more I have to admire the discretion of all menfolk," she replied.
No, no," said Alan, "it's no' you that's to blame, it's me." I asked him why. "Why," said he, "I have proved myself a gomeril this night. For first of all I take a wrong road, and that in my own country of Appin; so that the day has caught us where we should never have been; and, thanks to that, we lie here in some danger and mair discomfort.
Follow me, ye gomeril; there's a track up the broo," whispered McKinnon, and swung himself among the lowest of the bushes, and we followed. "I ken the very branches to put my hand on," says he, "and where every stane is, for many's the night I ran the cutter for the auld wives." We were half-way up before Dan spoke. "I never kilt a man before," says he in a low whisper.
Ye ken, Jenny, Halliday aye threeps he had a promise frae yoursell." "Halliday's a liar, and ye're naething but a gomeril to hearken till him, Cuddie. And then for this leddy's choice, lack-a-day! ye may be sure a' the gowd Mr. Morton has is on the outside o' his coat; and how can he keep Leddy Margaret and the young leddy?" "Isna there Milnwood?" said Cuddie.
"Yes, and the wolves will probably eat me, and a tree will fall on me and I'll break through the ice and be drowned," wailed Roderick. And she shoved him away from her for a foolish gomeril, trying not to smile at him, and declaring it was little he cared that he was leaving her, indeed.
Wasn't she the jewel of the world altogether, an' how could he ever have been such a gomeril as to doubt her? But all the same he must mind himself. It was not for the likes of him to be thinking of her that way. Sure, what matter if she had been his sweetheart twenty times over in days gone by she could never be his sweetheart now.
"Nice carryings on!" she cried, struggling to free herself. But when he went so far as to imprint a sounding kiss on her forehead, she fetched him a mighty push. "Lord!" she said, "if the gomeril hasn't gone clean out of his wits this last night!"
'Keep her full, will ye? he growled in an undertone. 'Do ye call that steering, ye gomeril? Run her by Daft Sandy's boat? It is no better than a cowherd you are at the steering. This Daft Sandy, who will turn up in our history by-and-by, was a half-witted old man, who spent his life in fishing for flounders from a rotten old punt he had become possessed of.
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