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Alexander wad ha' gane without bite or sup to the laird's room, but he's lying asleep. So now he's gane to his ain auld room for a bit of rest. Haith, sir," said Davie, "but he's like the auld laird when he was twenty-eight!" Strickland went, to the hall, where he found Alice. "Come to the fire! I've been watching the snow, but it is so white and thick and still it fair frightens me!
"But you haven't told me what is the matter at Scaurnose," said Malcolm impatiently. "Ow, it's jist this at this same's midsimmer day, an' Blew Peter, honest fallow! he's been for the last three month un'er nottice frae the factor to quit. An' sae, ye see, " "To quit!" exclaimed Malcolm. "Sic a thing was never h'ard tell o'!" "Haith! it's h'ard tell o' noo," returned the gatekeeper.
An' a man 'at in ane o' his gran'est verses cud haiver aboot the birth o' a yoong airthquack! losh! to think o' 't growin' an auld airthquack! haith, to me it's no up till a deuk-quack! sic a poet micht weel, I grant ye, be he ever sic a guid poet whan he tuik heed to what he said, he micht weel, I say, blether nonsense aboot the sea warrin' again' the rocks, an' sic stuff."
Haith! sic wad be a skipper wha wad ill scull yer boat!" said Malcolm, with a laugh at the poor attempt. "Bravo!" said the marquis, who certainly was not over critical. "Can you write a good hand?" "No ill, my lord." "So much the better! I see you 'll be worth your wages." "That depen's on the wages," returned Malcolm. "And that reminds me you 've said nothing about them yet."
"The impidence o' the fallow! He has his leave: what for disna he tak' it an' gang? But oot o' this gang he sail. To ca' a man like mine a heepocreet 'cause he wadna procleem till a haul market ilka secret fau't o' the horse he had to sell! Haith, he cam' upo' the wrang side o' the sheet to play the lord and maister here! and that I can tell him!"
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