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"But I'm saying, Dand" she came nearer him "I'm for the muirs. I must have a braith of air. If Clem was to be speiring for me, try and quaiet him, will ye no?" "What way?" said Dandie. "I ken but the ae way, and that's leein'. I'll say ye had a sair heed, if ye like." "But I havena," she objected. "I daursay no," he returned.
"I see somebody will have been talking to ye," she said sullenly. "They have more than one of them," replied Archie. "And whae were they?" she cried. "And what kind o' love do ye ca' that, that's ready to gang round like a whirligig at folk talking? Do ye think they havena talked to me?" "Have they indeed?" said Archie, with a quick breath. "That is what I feared. Who were they? Who has dare ?"
And just as Harold was leaving the room, like a school-boy, he called him in again. 'I havena' told thee, Harold, as I'm subject to attacks. I'm getting up in years. I go off like. It isna' fits, but I go off. And if it should happen while I'm here, dunna' be alarmed. 'What are we to do? 'Do nothing. I come round in a minute or two. Whatever ye do, dunna' give me brandy.
Had he been sincerely unweel, ye would hae been at the Tower by daylight to get something that wad do him gude; there are few ailments that I havena medical recipes for, and that ye ken fu' weel." "O ay, my leddy! I am sure ye hae wrought wonderful cures; the last thing ye sent Cuddie, when he had the batts, e'en wrought like a charm."
'I very near said I saw them laid; onyway, I saw the hens that laid them. Ye'll hae an egg, eh? 'Yes, if ye like. I havena tasted since eleeven this morning, an' then it was only a dram, said Liz languidly. Teen stood still on the little strip of rag-carpet before the fender, and regarded her friend with a mingling of horror and pity.
"Where have you been sulking all this time?" was his master's greeting. "I havena been sulkin', my lord," answered Malcolm. "Yer lordship tauld me to haud oot o' the gait till I was fit to be seen, an' no a sowl has set an ee upo' me till this verra moment 'at yer lordship has me in yer ain." "Where have you been then?" "You couldn't encounter the shame of being seen with such a face eh?"
If the Indians dinna get fully supplied here, they'll go elsewhere; they can do that since there's a French firm strung a line o' posts to compete i' the region, ye see. "Now I havena got the goods I need an' I canna get them frae Company sources. But there's a free trader set himsel' up tae the north o' here last season. The North's no a monopoly for the Company these days, ye ken.
"It's weel kend that, Dame Elspeth," said Tibb; "if ye had lived under grit folk, as I hae dune, ye wadna be to seek in that matter." "I hae aye keepit my ain ha' house abune my head," said Elspeth, not without emphasis, "and if I havena lived wi' grit folk, grit folk have lived wi' me." "Weel, weel, dame," said Tibb, "your pardon's prayed, there was nae offence meant.
I've tauld ye a' aboot it noo, and I havena a word tae add or tae withdraw. I'm muckle obleeged tae Maister Mathew Clairk for puttin' it a' doon in writin' for me, and if there's ony would wish tae speer onything mair o' me I'm well kenned and respeckit in Ecclefechan, and Maister McNeil, the factor o' Wigtown, can aye tell where I am tae be foond.
But he went off doon the passage, gruppin' his stick." "Is he lying down? Oh dear, I wish I hadn't slept so long! It would have been better for him if I'd been there with him." "No, he isna to his bed. He's gone through the green baize door. An' it's a' that dusty! I havena bin in tae clean sin' the day he tuik tae his bed. Always the mistress has said I maun leav' it.
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