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There's naebody means to touch his house; he has gude blood and gentle blood I say little o' him for himsell but there's naebody thinks him worth meddling wi'. Send the horsemen back to their post, cannily and quietly; see an they winna hae wark the night, ay will they: the guns will flash and the swords will glitter in the braw moon.
"Punds sterling," insisted the housekeeper, "if ye wad hae the gudeness to look ower the lad's misconduct; he's that dour ye might tear him to pieces, and ye wad ne'er get a word out o' him; and it wad do ye little gude, I'm sure, to burn his bonny fingerends."
Ole upset four or five of us who couldn't get out of the way and rescued the hat, which was blazing merrily. "Ent yu gat no sanse?" he roared angrily. "Das ban a gude hat." He looked at it gloomily. "Et ban spoiled now," he growled, tossing the remains into a waste-paper basket. "Yu ban purty fallers. Vat for yu do dat?" The basket was full of papers and things.
Gang where ye like do what ye like and marry a' the Butlers in the country gin ye like And sae, gude morning to you, Jeanie."
"Ye haena that censorious body, Lachlan Campbell, wi' ye the nicht," thrusting his head in on the thirds. "There's naething Peter disna ken," Hillocks remarked with admiration afterwards; "he's as gude as the Advertiser." When Flora had come home, and Drumtochty resumed freedom of criticism, I noticed for the first time a certain vacillation in its treatment of Lachlan.
Bertram had been her protectress, although from selfish motives, and her capricious tyranny was forgotten at the moment, while the tears followed each other fast down the cheeks of her frightened and friendless dependent. 'There's ower muckle saut water there, Drumquag, said the tobacconist to the ex- proprietor, 'to bode ither folk muckle gude.
"You're right there, Ben. It's no bad thing to have a gude opinion of oneself, provided it's not altogether too gude. And I maun say that these men put themselves too high. And a man should have a bridle on his tongue, and not be drinking too much of this nasty rum." "They laugh at our ways of speaking, and say we speak through our noses. You of the Black Watch talk differently from them.
An' it's as well to do't while I'm alive to see to't mysel' for I've often observed that if ye leave your warld's gear to the poor when ye're deed, just for the gude reason that ye canna tak it to the grave wi' ye, it'll melt in a wonderfu' way through the hands o' the 'secretaries' an' 'distributors' o' the fund, till there's naething left for those ye meant to benefit.
A week later he quoted to Southey, Swift's lines Too bad for a blessing, too good for a curse, which probably suggested Andrew Fairservice's final estimate of Scott's hero, "over bad for blessing, and ower gude for banning." These are the trifles which show the bent of Scott's mind at this period. The summer of 1817 he spent in working at the "Annual Register" and at the "Border Antiquities."
"Faither dear, I be a married woman. I had to tell lies and play false, but't was to you an' Mr. Grimbal I've been double, not to my husband that is. I was weak, and I've been punished sore, but " "Why, gal alive! what rigmarole 's this? Married ay, an' so you shall be, in gude time. You 'm light-headed, lass, I do b'lieve. But doan't fret, I'll have Doctor " "Hear me," she said, almost roughly.
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