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"Ay, ay just pet a' yer little interests in my hands; it's the wisest thing ye can do. Set ye doon again set ye doon. And don't tak' the arm-chair. Hech! hech! yer husband will be coming, ye know, and he's sure to want it!" With that seasonable pleasantry the venerable Bishopriggs winked, and went out. Anne looked at her watch.
'Hech, Patey M'Briar, is this you? said he, a trifle tipsily. 'Step in by, man, and have a drop brandy: for the stomach's sake! Even the deil can quote Scripture eh, Patey? 'I will neither eat nor drink with you, replied M'Brair. 'I am come upon my Master's errand: woe be upon me if I should anyways mince the same. Hall Haddo, I summon you to quit this kirk which you encumber.
Hech! but ye mak' din eneugh to deave a miller!" expostulated the warden, as he handed the receipt to McRae and turned his regards to the female prisoner. But the only effect of his words upon Faustina was to open the sluices of her tears and make them flow in greater abundance. "Eh, lassie, 'tis pity of you too!
And then, by way of practical application 'Hech! my dear, starving, simple brothers, ye manna be sae owre conscientious, and gang fashing yourselves anent being brutes an' deevils, for the gude God's made ye sae, and He's verra weel content to see you sae, gin ye be content or no." "Then, do you believe in the old doctrines of Christianity?" I asked. "Dinna speir what I believe in.
"What is the expense of cutting your reflections short, Mr. Bishopriggs?" "Thirdly, and lastly, if ye canna agree wi' her as time gaes on if there's incompaitibeelity of temper betwixt ye in short, if ye want a wee bit separation, hech, Sirs! ye pet yer hand in yer poaket, and come to an aimicable understandin' wi' her in that way.
An' when that comes to pass, I'll just gang back to my schule and my catechism, and begin again wi' 'who was born o' the Virgin Mary, suffered oonder Pontius Pilate! Hech! lads, there's no subjectives and objectives there, na beggarly, windy abstractions, but joost a plain fact, that God cam' down to look for puir bodies, instead o' leaving puir bodies to gang looking for Him.
Five days before the trial, September the sixteen, get word to me at the King Arms in Stirling; and if ye've managed for yourself as long as that, I'll see that ye reach Inverary." "One thing more," said I. "Can I no see Alan?" He seemed boggled. "Hech, I would rather you wouldnae," said he.
The long line of light at the top suddenly split and seemed to break open in the middle. There came a fierce "Hech" from the assailant, and the point of his crowbar showed, slid, and was as sharply recovered. Next moment it came again. "Lever it!" cried the gruff voice, "if you have the backbone of a windlestraw, lever!"
"Sae the baith o' ye are gaeing to Edinburgh? Will ye be friends there?" "That we will!" "Hech, sirs!" Mother Binning drew a thread from her distaff. The two were about to travel on when she stopped them again with a gesture. "Dinna mak sic haste! There's time enough behind us, and time enough before us. And it's a strange warld, and a large, and an auld!
"There's more to tell yet." "Ay," said he, "there will be. Well, tell on." And I told him of Belle and the old hut. He was not so very ill-pleased. "See that the woman has what she will be needing," said he "a cow and such-like, Hamish, and peats and gear and plenishings. Poor lass, poor lass. Hech, sirs, this will no' make bonny tellin' to the mistress.
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