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I had like to hae been cut short mysell, in the flower of my youth, as Scripture says; and that's the very thing that I compleen o'. Weel! in to the water we behoved a' to splash, heels ower head, sit or fa' ae horse driving on anither, as is the way of brute beasts, and riders that hae as little sense; the very bushes on the ither side were ableeze wi' the flashes of the Whig guns; and my horse had just taen the grund, when a blackavised westland carle I wad mind the face o' him a hundred years yet an ee like a wild falcon's, and a beard as broad as my shovel clapped the end o' his lang black gun within a quarter's length of my lug!
"Naething mair easy," Andrew observed; "he had but to hint to his cousin that I wanted a pair or twa o' hose, and he wad be wi' me as fast as he could lay leg to the grund." "O yes, assure him I shall be a customer; and as the night is, as you say, settled and fair, I shall walk in the garden until he comes; the moon will soon rise over the fells.
Grund; please thank him for his helpfulness and fine spirit.
There was another man his father talked about one Francis J. Grund, a famous newspaper correspondent and lobbyist at Washington, who possessed the faculty of unearthing secrets of every kind, especially those relating to financial legislation. The secrets of the President and the Cabinet, as well as of the Senate and the House of Representatives, seemed to be open to him.
We shall come down from the tree wi' Zaccheus; and if time permits, "'Fourth. We shall be going home wi' the publican." It seemed only just to pay a tribute at this point to the wonderful presence of mind Mrs. Macfadyen had shown amid unparalleled difficulties. "Hoot awa," she responded; the meenut ony heads cam a' knew ma grund: but the times atween I wes fairly lost.
An' at that moment the Lord's ain hand out o' the Heevens struck the Horror whaur it stood; the auld, deid, desecrated corp o' the witch-wife, sae lang keepit frae the grave and hirsled round by deils, lowed up like a brunstane spunk and fell in ashes to the grund; the thunder followed, peal on dirling peal, the rairing rain upon the back o' that; and Mr.
He wes convoyit to Berwick be the gaird, conform to the Earle's promes; for he promesit to put him out of Scottis grund: Sua, he keipit an Hielandman's promes, in respect he sent the gaird to convoy him out of Scottis grund; bot yai wer not directit to pairt wt: him, bot to fetche him bak againe.
"A' nicht long they gaed in the wet heath and jennipers, and whaur they gaed they neither knew nor cared, but just followed the bluid-stains and the footprints o' their faither's murderers. And a' nicht Dandie had his nose to the grund like a tyke, and the ithers followed and spak' naething, neither black nor white.
No, no; try me again just once, mammy!" "He's forever running on that, poor lad," whispered Mattha. "I reckon it's been a sair point with him sin' he put auld Martha intil t' grund." "Don't greet, mammy; don't greet." Poor Liza found the gown wanted close attention at that moment. It went near enough to her eyes. "I say it was fifty strides to the north of the bridge! Swear it?
And what sort o' scampering gates are these o' going on? Ye were not at hame last night till near midnight." "Thereabouts, sir, I believe," answered Morton, in an indifferent tone. "Thereabouts, sir? What sort of an answer is that, sir? Why came ye na hame when other folk left the grund?"
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