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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Hoo muckle hae ye i' the week?" said Meg, practically, to bring the matter to a point. "A pound a week," said Saunders Mowdiewort, promptly, who though a cuif was a business man, "an' a cottage o' three rooms wi' a graun' view baith back an' front!" "Ow aye," said Meg, sardonically, "I ken yer graund view.
Macfadyen, 'hesna hed muckle money spent on his eddication. "A graund field o' barley," he says, and as sure as a 'm stannin' here, it wes the haugh field o' aits. "'He 's frae Glaisgie, was all Elspeth answered, 'and by next Friday we 'll hae his name an' kirk. He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch.
"And the red deer and glens and things it must be lovely." "A've seen graund pictures of a glen," admitted Tam, "but the red deer in Glascae air no' sae plentifu' as they used to be A'm thinkin' the shipyard bummer hae scairt 'em away." She shot a sharp glance at him, then, it seemed for the first time, noticed his stripes. "Oh, you're a sergeant," she said.
Burnbrae was a big-hearted man, with a fatherly manner, and had a genius for dealing with "young communicants." "Weel, Jessie, we're awfu pleased tae think yer gaein' forrit, and the Dominie wes tellin' me juist last week that ye did yir work at schule graund, and knew yir Bible frae end tae end. "Ou ay," and Jessie is all alert, although she is afraid to look up.
"Nae doot it's a graund sicht; the like o't is no gien tae us twice in a generation, an' nae king wes ever carried tae his tomb in sic a cathedral. "But it's the fouk a'm conseederin', an' hoo they'll win through; it's hard eneuch for them 'at's on the road, an' it's clean impossible for the lave.
"Nae doot it's a graund sicht; the like o't is no gien tae us twice in a generation, an' nae king wes ever carried tae his tomb in sic a cathedral. "But it's the fouk a'm conseederin', an' hoo they 'ill win through; it's hard eneuch for them 'at's on the road, an' it's clean impossible for the lave.
"Then is there nothing that I can bring you from Edinburgh when I come again?" said Ralph, with whom the coming again was ever present. "'Deed, aye, gin ye are so ceevil it's richt prood I wad be o' a boxfu' o' Maister Cotton's Dutch sneeshin' him that's i' the High Street they say it's terrible graund stuff.
"'Twas a graund adventure, like you read aboot in books 'twas ma low, theatrical mind that wanted it so. Good-by, young lady." "Till to-morrow don't forget you're lunching with me at the Café St. Pierre." Tam smiled gravely. "A'm afraid ye'll have to postpone that lunch," he said, "till " "Till to-morrow," she interrupted firmly, and Tam flew back to the aerodrome without explaining.
I'll ban his wedding travels, gin I couldna ban his wedding! I'll bring him down to disgrace and shame afore a' his graund wedding guests the fause-hearted, leeing, shamefu' villain!
They're baith dour chiels, and haena muckle tae say, but Tammas hes a graund hert, and there's waur fouk in the Glen than Saunders. "A'm gettin' drowsy, an' a'll no be able tae follow ye sune, a' doot; wud ye read a bit tae me afore a' fa' ower?
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