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Sae awa she gaed! and Steenie efter her! added Kirsty in a lower tone, but Francis did not seem to hear, and said no more for awhile. 'But I maun tell ye the trowth, Kirsty, he resumed: 'forby yersel, there's them 'at says I'm a cooard! 'I h'ard ae man say't, only ane, and him only ance. 'And ye said til 'im, "Ay, I hae lang kenned that!" 'I tellt him whaever said it was a leear!
"I am only waiting till your lordship's mastiff is out of the way," answered Cosmo. "That you may set him at me again, as that old hag of yours did this morning!" As he spoke they had neared the kitchen-door, open as usual, and Grizzie heard what he said. "That's as big a lee as ever your lordship h'ard tell i' the coort," she cried. "It's the natur o' dougs to tak scunners. They see far ben.
Through all Perthshire it's weel kent," replied the man slowly, not, it seemed, without considerable reluctance. "What is h'ard by those doomed tae daith is the conspiracy o' Charles Lord Glencardine an' the Earl o' Kintyre for the murder o' the infamous Cardinal Setoun o' St.
An' that's Meg Horn!" "She had been at the drink! But I never h'ard it laid till her afore." "Didna ye than? Weel, I'm no sayin' onything that's what I h'ard." "Ow, it's like eneuch! "Whaten a craw had she to pluck wi' you, no?" "Ow fegs! ye wad hae ta'en her for a thief catcher, and me for the thief! Wae 's me 'at ever he was creatit!
That's ane o' the considerations 'at hings some sair upo' me: see what we hae dune!" "What for dinna ye gang ower to Maister Graham, an' speir what he thinks?" "What for sud I gang till him? What's he but a fine moaral man? I never h'ard 'at he had ony discernment o' the min' o' the speerit." "That's what Dilse's Bess frae Clamrock wad say aboot yersel', Peter."
"No that," he once said to Maggie, "I ever cared vera muckle aboot the angels: it's the man, the perfec man, wha was there wi' the Father afore ever an angel was h'ard tell o', that sen's me upo my knees! Whan I see a man that but minds me o' Him, my hert rises wi' a loup, as gien it wad 'maist lea' my body ahint it. Love's the law o' the universe, and it jist works amazin!"
You've h'ard of this unfortunate business that has come upon me?" "I have," she replied, "and I need not say that I'm sorry for it. Is it, or will it be as bad as they report?" "Worse, Kathleen. I will have the fine for all Ahadarra to pay myself." "But can nothing be done.
It maun be some kin' o' a prayer meetin', I'm thinkin'." Malcolm said nothing, but led the way to the pit entrance. "That's no an ill w'y o' getherin' the baubees," said Peter, seeing how the incomers paid their money. "I hae h'ard o' the plate bein' robbit in a muckle toon afore noo."
"I both seen the traitor an' h'ard him," replied the old man. "Hanna, dear, let me sit down," said Kathleen, and Hanna, encircling her with one hand, drew a chair over with the other, on which, with a cheek pale as death, her sister sat, whilst Hanna still wept with her arms about her. After a long silence, she at last simply said: "I must bear it; but in this world my happiness is gone."
"Guid preserve 's, sir! And is this the first ye hae h'ard o't?" "The very first." "An' what are ye gauin' to do?" "Appear, of course." "An' what 'll ye say to them?" "I shall answer their questions." "They 'll condemn ye!" "I do not doubt it." "An' what neist?" "I shall have to leave Scotland, I suppose." "Sir, it 's awfu'."
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