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When you canna stir their generosity, you can try their pride. If you look at it one way, the thing's humorsome. They dinna want to help me, but they will." "It's possible," Kit agreed. "I don't know if the plan's above suspicion, but you need the money." "It will be weel spent. Hooiver, I must be off and see the band dinna get ower much to drink."
"Ye'd ha' bin willin' enough wi'oot him, if ye'd thocht o't, I grant ye. But ye've no the wits. All there is o' ye has gane to mak' yer muckle body. Hooiver, that's no matter. I'll settle wi' James Moore anither time. I'll settle wi' you noo, David M'Adam." He paused, and looked the boy over from bead to foot. "So, ye're not only an idler! a wastrel! a liar!" he spat the words out.
Hooiver, if I canna sell coal, I canna pay the rent and landlord will have to do something. Mayhappen it will be easier for him if he kens the Askews started the plot. Osborn's none too fond of them." "He wouldn't like them any better if he knew what I know," Janet remarked with a malicious smile. "What do you ken about them?" Bell asked scornfully.
Hooiver" with a characteristic shrug "I suppose I'm onraisonable." Then the gong rang out its summons, and the squire led the way into the great dining-hall. At the one end of the long table, heavy with all the solid delicacies of such a feast, he took his seat with the Master of Kenmuir upon his right. At the other end was Parson Leggy.
He stood with his hands clasped behind his back as if daring the young giant to raise a finger against him. "Ye maist might noo," he continued suavely. "Ye maun be sax inches taller, and a good four stane heavier. Hooiver, aiblins ye're wise to wait. Anither year twa I'll be an auld man, as ye say, and feebler, and Wullie here'll be gettin' on, while you'll be in the prime o' yer strength.
"Hooiver, shentlemen," he added, "if ye wunna tak it here's wushin' your fery coot health!" Raising the glass, he drained it without winking, as if the contents had been water, smacked his lips and put the bottle away.
At length the proof was in his hand. Once and for all the hill-country should be rid of its scourge. As he stalked up the hill, a dark head appeared at his knee. Two big grey eyes; half doubting, half penitent, wholly wistful, looked up at him, and a silvery brush signalled a mute request. "Eh, Owd Un, but yo' should ha' gone wi' Andrew," the Master said. "Hooiver, as yo' are here, come along."
"We have not been good neebors, though I dinna ken that's much fault o' mine; but if you thowt I'd use a foolish girl to hurt a man I didn't like, you're varra wrang. Hooiver, you came for an explanation, and I want one, too." He turned to Kit. "You had better tell us why you kept up Miss Osborn's acquaintance withoot her father's consent."
"My womenfolk are grumelling an' it's lang sin' we had good light bread, but they're none for letting Bell have his way." "He's come doon five shillings, and we've peat enough to fall back on if he puts up price again," somebody else remarked. "Hooiver, I reckon he's forced to sell and we might get anither half-croon off if we wait." Peter took his pipe from his mouth. "It's a kittle point.
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