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He can preach, aye, Ah'll no deny yon, but what's the gude o' what he's haverin' aboot? This mornin' he preached jist half an oor, aye, an' twenty meenits o' it taken up in provin' that Paul was a gude man, a thing that no the biggest fule in the Glen would gainsay, no, not even oor Andra'," he concluded sombrely. Duncan sighed. He had noticed that the sermons were steadily growing shorter.
With characteristic Scottish caution, he would neither say "yes" nor "no" until the barrister reminded him that he was not acting in his young master's interests by being so reticent. "Weel, sir, I'm an auld man, and mebbe a bit haverin' in my judgment. Just ask me what ye wull, an' I'll dae my best to answer ye," was the butler's ultimate concession. "You remember the day of the murder?"
'But ye see, Francie, she went on, 'yer father, whan he left ye a kin' o' a legacy, as ye may ca' 't, to mine, hed no intention that I was to be left oot; neither had my father whan he acceppit o' 't! 'Haud yer tongue and hearken, returned Kirsty. 'Sakes, lassie! what are ye haverin at? Wud it be pu'in agen yer father to merry me? 'It wud be that. 'I dinna see hoo ye can mak it oot!
Why, man, I've been lookin' for you ever since that unlucky accident, to offer you a change of clothes and a feed in my tent or I should say our tent, for I belong to a `party, like every one else here. Come along." "Thank 'ee kindly," answered Sandy, "but what between haverin' wi' thae Englishers an' drinkin' their whusky, my freen' Jerry an' me's dry aneugh already."
Time had transformed Jean from a pretty girl into a beautiful woman, but there was an expression of profound melancholy on her once bright face which never left it now, save when a passing jest called up for an instant a feeble reminiscence of the sweet old smile. "Noo, Jean, awa' wi' ye. I'll never get thae parritch-sticks feenished if ye sit haverin' there."
Anderson laughed, but his eyes glittered. Robert found Shargar busy over his Latin version. With a 'Weel, Shargar, he took his books and sat down. A few moments after, Shargar lifted his head, stared a while at Robert, and then said, 'Duv you railly think it, Robert? 'Think what? What are ye haverin' at, ye gowk? 'Duv ye think 'at I ever could grow intil a gentleman? 'Dr.
I thoucht I was ower mony for her than: I wonner she daur be at me again." "She 's daurt her God er' noo, an' may weel daur you. But what says yer gran'father till 't, no?" "He hasna hard a chuckie's cheep o' 't." "What are we haverin' at than! Canna he sattle the maitter aff han'?" Miss Horn eyed him keenly as she spoke.
"Bell Baxter was haverin' awa in the shop tae sic an extent aboot the wy MacLure brocht roond Saunders when he hed the fever that a' gied oot at the door, a' wes that disgusted, an' a'm telt when Tammas Mitchell heard the news in the smiddy he wes juist on the greeting. "The smith said that he wes thinkin' o' Annie's tribble, but ony wy a' ca' it rael bairnly.
The auld doctor's nae kirk-filler, but he gies us fu' meesure, pressed doun an' rinnin' ower, nae bit-pickin's like the haverin' asseestant; it's my opeenion he's no soond, wi' his parleyvoos an' his clishmaclavers!... Mr. I mind aince he prayed for oor Free Assembly, an' then he turned roon' an' prayed for the Estaiblished, maist in the same breath, he's a broad, leeberal mon is Mr. C!... Mr.
Of course, many of these, such as live animals, being prohibited articles, were stopped and sent to the Returned Letter Office, but were restored, on application, to the senders." Observing Miss Lillycrop's surprised expression of face, the old woman's curiosity was roused. "What's he haverin' aboot, my dear?" she asked of May.
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