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The misguided lassie, as you have the impudence to call her, is no misguided lassie at all. She is the Honorable Mrs. Dugald, of Castle Cragg," said Mrs. MacDonald impatiently. "Wha she the lass in yon cell, the Honorable Mistress Dugald?" "Herself!" "Hech, that's awfu'l" "So I wished to give you a hint to treat her with the consideration due to her rank."
You won't be disturbed until the fall anyway. And Mr. Huntley here will see that justice is done, whatever happens. He's one of the cleverest young lawyers in Cheemaun, you know." "Hech!" interrupted old Sandy, his eyes blazing. "Yes, it is that I will be fearing. The Lord peety the man that will be falling into the hands of a clever lawyer!"
"Woman," said Jean Kennedy, laying a strong, though soft hand, on her wrist, "this is not gear for trifling. Is the lass your ain bairn? Ha! I always thought she had mair of the kindly Scot than of the Southron about her. Hech! so they made the puir wean captive! Wha gave her till you to keep? Your lord, I trow." "The Lord of heaven and earth," replied Susan.
"When he witnesses your signature, he can see as much for himself if he looks at the top of the page." "Ay, ay," said the coachman, looking at the top of the page immediately. "His last Will and Testament. Hech, sirs! there's a sair confronting of Death in a Doecument like yon!
Le'm keep 'is money; I keep my black skin an' keep out the ground!" Mr. Jackson expressed the same preference. "Yessuh, he look tuh me like somebody awready laid out," he concluded. And upon the stairway landing, near by, two old women, on all-fours at their work, were likewise pessimistic. "Hech!" said one, lamenting in a whisper.
She darted up the steps and into the kitchen, without knocking. Elsie, in a trim cotton gown and a spotless white apron, was setting the tea-table; and in a warm corner behind the stove Uncle Hughie, crippled with a bad attack of rheumatism, was rocking in his old arm-chair, and singing the "March o' the Cameron Men." "Hoots! toots! Come away, Arabella! Come away!" he cried. "Eh, hech!
Maggie had already been out in the fresh, wet breeze, and she had a pink kerchief tied over her hair; but she blushed a deeper pink, as she shyly said, "Gude morning, sir." Then David roused himself "Hech, sir!" he cried, "I wish you had been wi' us last night.
Heeh! hech! didna I say when I first set eyes on that puir leddy, 'I feel like a fether to ye? It's seemply mairvelous to see hoo a man's ain gude deeds find him oot in this lower warld o' ours. If ever I heard the voice o' naitural affection speaking in my ain breast," pursued Mr.
First, Gatty himself came to her, and, casting uneasy glances at the door by which his mother had just gone out, said: "Christie!" "My lad!" "I want to paint your likeness." This was for a souvenir, poor fellow! "Hech! I wad like fine to be painted." "It must be exactly the same size as yourself, and so like you, that, should we be parted, I may seem not to be quite alone in the world."
Now there were reasons why Malcolm should not be unwilling to tell the strange wild story requested of him, and he commenced it at once, but modified the Scotch of it considerably for the sake of the unaccustomed ears. 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'."
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