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And as for the holes, Edie, I abandon them as rat-traps, for the benefit of the next wise men who may choose to drop the substance to snatch at a shadow." "Hech, sirs! guide us a'! to burn the engines? that's a great waste Had ye na better try to get back part o' your hundred pounds wi' the sale o' the materials?" he continued, with a tone of affected condolence.
I could paint the Devil pea-green!" "Dinna speak o' yon lad, Chairles, it's no canny." "No! I am going to paint an angel; the prettiest, cleverest girl in Scotland, 'The Snowdrop of the North." And he dashed into his bedroom to find a canvas. "Hech!" reflected Christie. "Thir Ennglish hae flattering tongues, as sure as Dethe; 'The Snawdrap o' the Norrth!"
"Try this, out of Nature's shop," laughed their entertainer; and he offered them, himself, some peaches and things. "Hech! a medi cine!" said Christie. "Nature, my lad," said Miss Carnie, making her ivory teeth meet in their first nectarine, "I didna ken whaur ye stoep, but ye beat the other confectioners, that div ye."
Hech, sirs, but they would need a gey rubbing to get the rust off them now, I've been thinking that if I was to get my laddies to say their grandfather's name a curran times ilka day, like the Catechism, and they were to do the same wi' their bairns, and it was continued in future generations, we micht raise a fell field o' ancestors in time. Ay, but Elspeth wouldna hear o't.
"One at tap and one at bottom?" repeated Mr. Bishopriggs, in high disdain. "De'il a bit of it! Baith yer chairs as close together as chairs can be. Hech! hech! haven't I caught 'em, after goodness knows hoo many preleeminary knocks at the door, dining on their husbands' knees, and steemulating a man's appetite by feeding him at the fork's end like a child?
His eye turned inward, he walked to and fro, and his companions died out of his sight he was in the kingdom of art. His lordship and Jean entered the "Peacock," followed by Flucker, who merely lingered at the door to moralize as follows: "Hech! hech! isna thaat lamentable? Christie's mon's as daft as a drunk weaver." But one stayed quietly behind, and assumed that moment the office of her life.
They were the girl's eyes, exactly, but with none of her lofty reserve. "Ech! hech!" he cried, disappearing once more within the hat. "Indeed and indeed, and it's the new doctor! Hoch, yes, yes, it is welcome you will be to Elmbrook. Eh, and we would not be expecting such a fine-looking one. Indeed, no! And it would be a fine Scottish name, too, oh, a fine name indeed, Allen.
"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.
A few punds on a bond for repayment when the addition was sauld, noo, I'd do that for mysel; but I'm thinking ye'd better try to get a list o' subscribers. Dinna mind your independence; it's but spoiling the Egyptians, ye ken, and the bit ballants will be their money's worth, I'll warrant, and tell them a wheen facts they're no that weel acquentit wi'. Hech? Johnnie, my Chartist?"
He rose, and was instantly seized by two of the company, from whom he burst furiously, after a struggle, and the next moment was heard to fall clean from the top to the bottom of the stairs. Flucker and Jean ran out; the rest appealed against the interruption. Christie. "Hech! he's killed. Sandy Liston's brake his neck."
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