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Mrs Catanach was speaking in a low tone, and what Malcolm was able to catch was evidently the close of a conversation. "I'll do my best, ye may be sure, my leddy," she said. "There's something no canny aboot the cratur, an' doobtless ye was an ill used wuman, an' ye're i' the richt. But it's a some fearsome ventur, an' may be luikit intill, ye ken. There I s' be yer scoug.
Forbye I ken weel the place, an' sae God wills, I can guide ye intill it by nicht as weel as ithers could by day." "I'm not the man to shirk the call to arms when the bugle sounds," remarked Tom Loker, "but I must say I've no stomach for this going before I'm sent. It's a sheer temptin' o' Providence, seems to me." "Hoot, mon," said Sandy, "what is to be, is to be.
"The moment the priest's horse set fut upo' the drawbrig, the puir leddy gae anither ougsome cry, a hantle waur nor the first, an' up gat a suddent roar an' a blast o' win' that maist cairried the castel there aff o' the cliff intill the watter, an' syne cam a flash o' blue licht an' a rum'lin'. Efter that, a' was quaiet: it was a' ower afore the priest wan athort the coortyaird an' up the stair.
This would have saved you from false relations with men that oppose themselves, caring nothing for the truth perhaps eager to save their souls, nothing more at the very best." "Sir! sir! what wad ye hae? Daur ye say it's no a body's first duty to save his ain sowl alive?" exclaimed Bow o' meal. "I daur't but there 's little daur intill 't!" said Mr Graham, breaking into Scotch.
"You are not for gaun intill Glasgow then?" said Jeanie, as she observed that the drivers made no motion for inclining their horses' heads towards the ancient bridge, which was then the only mode of access to St. Mungo's capital.
An' she cam an' cam, doon an' doon, an' on to the bog; an' for a' the weicht o' her airmour she sankna a fit intill 't. An' she cam, an' she stude, an' she luikit at me; an' I hed seen her afore, an' kenned her weel. An' she luikit at me, an' aye luikit; an' I winna say what was i' the puir worm's hert.
My father saw them toom the sacks of dollars out o' Provost Dick's window intill the carts that carried them to the army at Dunse Law; and if ye winna believe his testimony, there is the window itsell still standing in the Luckenbooths I think it's a claith-merchant's booth the day* at the airn stanchells, five doors abune Gossford's Close.
They hae taen 't intill their heids, for ae thing an that's what Dilse's Bess lays on at 'at 'cause they're fisher fowk, they hae a speecial mission to convert the warl'." "What foon' they that upo'?" asked Malcolm. "Ow, what the Saviour said to Peter an' the lave o' them 'at was fishers to come to him, an' he would mak them fishers o' men." "Ay, I see!
A'thing 's on the ro'd to the German Ocean. The lan' 's jist miltin' awa' intill the sea!" Janet sat silent, knitting hard at a stocking she had got hold of, that Jean had begun for her brother.
There's aye something luikin' oot o' 't 'at ye canna do as ye like wi'. But my gran'father never saw a face in's life lat alane Glenlyon's 'at's been dirt for sae mony a year. Gien he war luikin' intil the face o' that Glenlyon even, I do believe he wad no more drive his durk intill him." "Drive his dirk into him!" echoed Mrs Courthope, in horror at the very disclaimer.
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