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"Good God!" said I "so young, so beautiful, so early lost!" "Troth ye may say sae she's in a manner lost, body and saul; forby being a Papist, I'se uphaud her for" and his northern caution prevailed, and he was again silent. "For what, sir?" said I sternly. "I insist on knowing the plain meaning of all this." "On, just for the bitterest Jacobite in the haill shire."
"And I didna just a'thegither walk the haill way neither, for I had whiles the cast of a cart; and I had the cast of a horse from Ferrybridge and divers other easements," said Jeanie, cutting short her story, for she observed the Duke made the sign he had fixed upon.
We hae a device for finding it a' out, which canna fail; and when you ken it you will applaud your dear dad's wisdom, and perfit maistery o' the haill science o' kingcraft." "I would your Majesty would make me acquainted with this notable scheme," replied Buckingham, with ill-concealed contempt. "I might make it more certain of success."
"An' I like best to read jist as yer leddyship's readin' the noo, lyin' o' the san' hill, wi' the haill sea afore me, an naething atween me an' the icebergs but the watter an' the stars an' a wheen islands. It's like readin' wi' fower een, that!" "And what do you read on such occasions?" carelessly drawled his persecutor.
It's just, said I, 'amaist as silly as our auld daft laird here and his gomerils o' sons, wi' his huntsmen and his hounds, and his hunting cattle and horns, riding haill days after a bit beast that winna weigh sax punds when they hae catched it." "You argued most admirably, Andrew," said I, willing to encourage him to get into the marrow of his intelligence; "and what said Pate?"
A cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played; ill to please it was, and easily angered ran about the haill castle, chattering and rowling, and pinching and biting folk, specially before ill weather, or disturbance in the state.
It's the opinion of the haill country that the sale has been shamefully forced on at this time, when there's sae little money stirring in Scotland wi' this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain. Deil be in them, that I should say sae! the good lady's wrath rising at the supposed injustice. 'And where will the sale take place?
"We are broken and beggared now, out and out," said old Martin the shepherd and he wrung his hands in the bitterness of agony, "the thieves, the harrying thieves I not a cloot left of the haill hirsel!" "And to see poor Grizzle and Crumbie," said his wife, "turning back their necks to the byre, and routing while the stony-hearted villains were brogging them on wi' their lances!"
Lovel hae been to have it brought to light sae I thought I would stand to onything rather than that." "I must say he has chosen his confidant well," said Oldbuck, "though somewhat strangely." "I'll say this for mysell, Monkbarns," answered the mendicant, "that I am the fittest man in the haill country to trust wi' siller, for I neither want it, nor wish for it, nor could use it if I had it.
Willie himself was next seen, leading forth a female, and the old woman, carefully bolting the grate behind them, remained on the post as a sort of sentinel. "Ony ane or twa o' ye come forward," said the outlaw, "and take her frae my hand haill and sound." Hobbie advanced eagerly, to meet his betrothed bride. Earnscliff followed more slowly, to guard against treachery.
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