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Updated: June 8, 2025
She wearied herself taking the flowers and things over yonder," said Mrs Snow, glancing towards the spot where the white grave-stones gleamed out from the pale, green foliage of spring-time. "And no wonder. Even Emily was over tired, and hasna looked like herself since. I dare say I'm troubling myself when there is no need."
We're not more hard pressed than our neighbours. Look at Janet Ross with all her bairns, and her rent owing for three terms; and auld Betty Matthew, at the Croft, who hasna a penny forbye what she gets at the kelp burning. We have our two bonnie cows, and a score of good sheep, and all our hens." "We have all that," replied my mother.
'The auld witch hasna gotten a grup o' her again? cried the shoemaker, starting half up in alarm. 'She cam here to me aboot the shune, but I reckon I sortit her! 'I winna speir what ye said, returned Robert. 'It's no maitter noo. And the tears rose to his eyes. His bonny lady! 'The Lord guide 's! exclaimed the soutar. 'What is the maitter wi' the bonnie leddy?
There's Jess 'at hasna her equal for cleverness in Thrums, man or woman, an' yet she's fair skeered about thae cloaks. Aince a woman sets her mind on something to wear, she's mair onreasonable than the stupidest man. Ay, it micht mak them humble to see hoo foolish they are syne. No, but it doesna do't. "If it was a thing to be useful noo, I wouldna think the same o't, but she could never wear't.
Ay, and a bonnie boat she is! As to what Carver means to do wi' it Weel, I dinna ken if it be true; but I hae heard that he intends to start as a Stromness pilot in opposition to Sandy Ericson." "A pilot!" exclaimed Mansie. "Carver Kinlay a pilot! Man, Colin, ye astonish me. Why, the man hasna gotten a certificate!" "Maybe ay and maybe no; but I assure ye, Mansie, that a pilot he means to be."
The horse in the stable, hearing unaccustomed noises, rattled his chain and stamped about in the straw of his box. Furtive steps came down the yard again, and Daft Jimmy peeped into the coach-house. 'He done it! he done it! the idiot cried gleefully. 'Damned if he hasna'. He slapped his leg and almost danced. The body still twitched occasionally. 'He done it! 'Done what, Daft Jimmy?
"Surely," said Helen, with clasped hands, "that woman hasna poisoned the puir young creature wi' that mixture she requested me to gie her just before I ca'ed you into the house. She said it was to compose her to sleep. She had offered it to the lady hersel, who, being afraid o' her, wadna taste it. Then she gave me the cup, and I offered it.
But it seems I canna sing it often enough, for more than once, when I've not sung it, the audience hasna let me get awa' without it. I'll ha' gie'n as many encores as I usually do; I'll ha' come back, maybe a score of times, and bowed. But a' over the hoose I'll hear voices rising Scots voices, as a rule. "Gie's the wee hoose, Harry," they'll roar.
It's a won'er to me he hasna broken your banes and his ain back thegither, puir thing! he added, patting and stroking the spirited little creature that stood sweating and trembling. 'I thank you, Mr. Barclay, said Francis insolently, 'but I am quite able to manage the brute myself. You seem to take me for a fool!
Come along wi' ye, professor an' students, an' I'll give ye a ride into Muirtown, an' we'ill just be in time to catch the magistrate. He hasna tried a learned institution like this since he mounted the bench. March in front, but dinna try to run, or it will be the waur for ye. Ma certes, sic a band o' waufies!"
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