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"Adam Smith is good company for them that are going his way, father: but there is no way a man may take and not find the humanities good road-fellows." "Dinna beat around the bush, guidman; tell Davie at once that you want him to go 'prentice to Mammon. He kens well enough whether he can serve him or no."
"Weel, I'm no sae sure!" answered Marion. "But we'll say nae mair anent that the noo! The guidman says no; and his word's law i' this hoose." Isy resumed her pretence of breakfast. Presently Eppie came down, and going to her master, said "Here's An'ra, sir, come to speir efter the yoong minister and Isy: am I to gar him come in?" "Ay, and gie him his brakfast," shouted the farmer.
It was upon a fine summer evening, in the year 1689, just six years after the mysterious disappearance of Catherine Wilson, that the old guidman of Barjarg was sitting enjoying the setting sun at his own door, on the root of an old tree, which had been converted into a dais, or out-of-doors seat.
"Oh, but I'll thin them, missie," he affirmed, in response to her look of sympathy, "ow aye, there are waur things than hare soup and rabbit pie. Ye maun come ower some day and taste you and your guidman. I will send ye word by that daft loon Davie."
But, though my left arm carries a basket, beneath my cloak shall be hidden the bit sword which my guidman wore in the wars against King Harry; and, as I reach the last sentinel 'Now, lads! now for Scotland and our Queen! I shall cry; and wha dare follow my example?" "I dare!
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