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Boswell piloted him safely through a visit to Lord Monboddo, a man of real ability, though the proprietor of crochets as eccentric as Johnson's, and consequently divided from him by strong mutual prejudices. At Auchinleck he was less fortunate. The old laird, who was the staunchest of Whigs, had not relished his son's hero-worship. "There is nae hope for Jamie, mon; Jamie is gaen clean gyte.
There's nae soberer man than me in my ordnar; but when I hear the wind blaw in my lug, it's my belief that I gang gyte. 'You are a religious man, I replied, 'and this is sin'. 'Ou, he returned, 'if it wasnae sin, I dinnae ken that I would care for't. Ye see, man, it's defiance.
"He was an auld man when he married her, a fell auld man wi' a muckle voice you could hear him rowting from the top o' the Kye-skairs," she said; "but for her, it appears she was a perfit wonder. It was gentle blood she had, Mr. Archie, for it was your ain. The country-side gaed gyte about her and her gowden hair.
It is finished, Mungo; are you listening? Did he did he looked vexed? But it does not matter, it is finished, and I have been a very foolish girl." "But that needna' prevent me tellin' ye that the puir man's awa' clean gyte." She smiled just the ghost of a smile at that, then put her hands upon her ears. "Oh!" she cried despairingly, "have I not a friend left?"
When James, after first attaching himself to Paoli, the leader of the Corsican struggle for independence, returned home and took up the discipleship to Johnson which was to be the central fact in the rest of his life, his father frankly despaired of him, and broke out, according to Walter Scott: "There's nae hope for Jamie, mon. Jamie is gaen clean gyte. What do you think, mon?
"She was our big freighter McIntyre was engineer an' I knew she'd come from overhaul not three months. That morn I met McRimmon's head-clerk ye'll not know him fair bitin' his nails off wi' mortification. "'The auld man's gone gyte, says he. 'He's withdrawn the Lammergeyer. "'Maybe he has reasons, says I. "'Reasons! He's daft! "'He'll no be daft till he begins to paint, I said.
Without uttering a word he cocked his blunderbuss, and, before any one could prevent him, made a bold dash into the jungle at a point where the hounds were clamouring loudest. "Save us a', the body's gane gyte!" exclaimed Sandy Black, promptly following. "Come on, freen's, or he's a deed man."
And then, putting the very callant that was sewing the curpel out o' the shop, to play wi' blackguards in the close Sit still, neighbours, it's no that I mean to disturb you; but what between courts o' law and courts o' state, and upper and under parliaments, and parliament houses, here and in London, the gudeman's gane clean gyte, I think." When Mrs.
The voices of two of Prestongrange's liveried men upon his doorstep recalled me to myself. "Ha'e," said the one, "this billet as fast as ye can link to the captain." "Is that for the cateran back again?" asked the other. "It would seem sae," returned the first. "Him and Simon are seeking him." "I think Prestongrange is gane gyte," says the second. "He'll have James More in bed with him next."
The voices of two of Prestongrange's liveried men upon his doorstep recalled me to myself. "Hae," said the one; "this billet as fast as ye can link to the captain." "Is that for the cateran back again?" asked the other. "It would seem sae," returned the first. "Him and Simon are seeking him." "I think Prestongrange is gane gyte," says the second. "He'll have James More in bed with him next."
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