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"That's weel, vara weel," said Mr Macdougall, with an approving cough. "And if our quest should be unsuccessful, why, we must proceed to Good Success Bay that point to the south-east of the mainland, opposite Staten Island where there'll be more chance of our intercepting a vessel." "Hech, mon, but it's a gude long deestance, I reecken?" replied the mate, in a questioning way.
Shouldn't wonder if he didn't marry a lady some day, with plenty of money!" "Shouldn't wonder, indeed," said Gethin, clapping him on the back; "and there's proud he'll be to drive his old father to church with him!" "Hech! hech! hech!" laughed the old man, sitting down and rubbing his knees. "Well, indeed, he's a fine boy, whatever!" "Wasn't Gwilym there?" asked Ann.
"No," I said; "you say so out of kindness; but if you can afford no greater comforts than these, you cannot afford to keep me in addition to yourself." "Hech, then! How do ye ken that the auld Scot eats a' he makes? I was na born the spending side o' Tweed, my man.
Galt out to a little humpbacked Scotchman in the High Street of Edinburgh: "Eh! Jamie, mon, there's the great Galt, author of the 'Annals of the Parish." "'Annals o' the Payrish, Archie, hech, sirs, he's big eneuch to be the Payrish itself let alone the annals o' it." Mr.
'Na, then he's bewitched for certain, said the housekeeper, letting go her hold; 'he's bewitched, or he's daft, and ony way the Colonel maun just guide him his ain gate. Wae's me! Hech, sirs! It's a sair thing to see learning bring folk to this! And with this compassionate ejaculation she retreated into her own premises.
When it was ended Clementina said nothing, Annie Mair said "Hech, sirs!" and Lizzy, with a great sigh, remarked, "The deil maun be in a' thing whaur God hasna a han', I'm thinkin'." "Ye may tak yer aith upo' that," rejoined Malcolm. It was a custom in Peter's boat never to draw the nets without a prayer, uttered now by one, now by another of the crew.
"But for the spearsman," continued he, "he had nothing but his body; he gave it, it was his duty, and received the death leveled at his sovereign." "Hech! puir mon." And the glowing eyes began to glisten. "The battle flowed another way, and God gave victory to the right; but the king came back to look for him, for it was no common service." "Deed no!"
From the end of the peat-stack, out of the dark hole made by the excavation of last winter's stock of fuel, came the voice of Jock Gordon, singing: "The deil he sat on the high lumtap, HECH HOW, BLACK AN' REEKY! Gang yer ways and drink yer drap, Ye'll need it a' whan ye come to stap IN MY HOLE SAE BLACK AN' REEKY, O! HECH HOW, BLACK AN' REEKY!
Aweel! aweel! ye ha' gi'en me yer money, and I'll een gi' ye back gude measure for it, on my side. Mistress Glenarm's awa' in private incog, as they say to Jaffray Delamayn's brither at Swanhaven Lodge. Ye may rely on the information, and it's no' that easy to come at either. They've keepit it a secret as they think from a' the warld. Hech! hech!
"Hello!" he shouted, pitching his snowy mittens under the stove and his cap upon the bed. "I've got a new story." He struggled to extract the book from his coat. "Old Hughie Cameron gave it to me. Hech! hech! hoots! toots! indeed and indeed!" he added, hobbling about the room, and imitating the old man's caressing manner to perfection.
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