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Updated: June 26, 2025
"She says this country's too comfortable, an' there's too much t' eat, an' folks arena miserable enough. And she's going next week. I canna turn her, say what I will. It's allays the way wi' them meek-faced people; you may's well pelt a bag o' feathers as talk to 'em. But I say it isna religion, to be so obstinate is it now, Adam?"
If you have any hide that isna your own, ye should hide it away at once! Because the shuriff " Belle laid her palms on her hips and stared blankly up at Mary Hope, who sat nervously on old Rab at the gate. "Heavens, child! My hide is my own and at that it's pretty well hidden. What about the sheriff? What's he got to say about it?" "It's the stealing, Mrs. Lorrigan.
Her voice was unmanageable. She had left to her only the tenement-bred instinct of concealment of any and all facts from an officer of the law. "Ye dinna ken! Maister Traill said i' the coort a' the bairns aboot kenned the dog. Was he leein'?" The question stung her into angry admission. "He wadna be leein'. But but the bittie dog isna here noo." "Syne, whaur is he? Oot wi' it!" "I dinna ken!"
But, God's santie, lad! how cam you in sic sad and sombre abulyiements? Hae ye nae braw claes to put on to grace our coming? Black isna the fashion at our court, as Sir Gilbert will tell ye, and, though a suit o' sables may become you, it's no pleasing in our sight. Let us see you in gayer apparel at dinner."
"Gie 'im a penny plate o' the gude broo," said Auld Jock, and he took the copper coin from his pocket to pay for it. He forgot his own meal in watching the hungry little creature eat. Warmed and softened by Mr. Traill's kindness, and by the heartening food, Auld Jock betrayed a thought that had rankled in the depths of his mind all day. "Bobby isna ma ain dog." His voice was dull and unhappy.
Lady Murray, the ball is at my foot, and I will kick it, though I deprive Scott o' Harden o' a head. And what mean ye, dame, by saying I act foolishly?" "Only this, guidman," said she "that ye hae three daughters to marry, whom the world doesna consider to be ower weel-faured, and it isna every day that ye hae a husband for ane o' them in your hand."
Now, isna that a queer affair! My feth, but they maun hae managed matters unco cannily and cunningly; for deil a bit o' me ever could see the least inklin o' anything past ordinar between them." "You see onything o' that kind!" replied Mrs Adair, with an expression of the greatest contempt for her husband's penetration in affaires de coeur. "You see't, Robin! No I dare say no.
"Nevertheless," Babbie persisted, "I am sure the minister has a cloak; but perhaps he is ashamed of it. No doubt it is hidden away in the garret." "Na, we would hae kent o't if it was there," said Nanny. "But it may be in a chest, and the chest may be locked," the Egyptian suggested. "Ay, but the kist in the garret isna locked," Nanny answered.
But the sound followed and surrounded them, and as they passed the corner of the kirkyard, a figure waved his college cap over the wall and gave a cheer on his own account. "God bless you, doctor, and well done." "If it isna the minister," cried Drumsheugh, "in his goon an' bans; tae think o' that; but a' respeck him for it."
"'Od save us, Janet, woman, look, look look! do ye see wha it is! Confound me, if it isna the very chield that I gied the clout in the lug to in your mother's the other night for his good behaviour. Weel, as sure as death, I gie him credit for what he has done he's ta'en the measure o' their feet, onyway!
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