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"You are mistaen," said Jeanie; "it is no sae far, and they go to it by land; I learned something about thae things from Reuben Butler." "Ah, Jeanie! ye never learned onything but what was gude frae the folk ye keepit company wi'; but! but!" she wrung her hands and wept bitterly. "Dinna think on that now," said Jeanie; "there will be time for that if the present space be redeemed. Fare ye weel.
Jarvie in a very subdued tone "I speak amang friends, and under the rose Ye are to understand, that the Hielands hae been keepit quiet since the year aughty-nine that was Killiecrankie year. But how hae they been keepit quiet, think ye? By siller, Mr. Owen by siller, Mr. Osbaldistone.
The laird's buff-coat was hung on a pin behind him, and his broadsword and his pistols within reach; for he keepit up the auld fashion of having the weapons ready, and a horse saddled day and night, just as he used to do when he was able to loup on horseback, and away after ony of the hill-folk he could get speerings of.
She's a fine fusher, Leddy Carline: faith, she may weel be, for I taucht her mysel'. She hookit a saumon aboot the midst o' the pool, an' for a while it gied gran' sport; loupin' and tumblin', an' dartin' up the watter an' doon the watter at sic a speed as keepit her leddyship muvin' gey fast tae keep abriesht o't.
"Na, truly," answered Cuddie, "I keepit aye before the auld woman, and cried for mercy to life and limb; but twa o' the red-coats cam up, and ane o' them was gaun to strike my mither wi' the side o' his broadsword So I got up my kebbie at them, and said I wad gie them as gude.
"If the place is no keepit dacent, we'll never get the young marchioness to come near's again."
"Alexander Moldieward!" again cried the old "betheral," very loud, to some one on the top of the Dullarg Hill then in an ordinary voice, "come awa', Saunders man, you and your mither, an' dinna keep them waitin' they're no chancy when they're keepit." Saunders and his mother entered.
I swore to keep the secret till he was ane-an'-twenty; I kenn'd he behoved to dree his weird till that day cam. I keepit that oath which I took to them; but I made another vow to mysell, that if I lived to see the day of his return I would set him in his father's seat, if every step was on a dead man. I have keepit that oath too.
At the entry of the wood there is a wild common, and on the edge of the common a little lonely change-house, that was keepit then by an hostler wife, they suld hae caa'd her Tibbie Faw, and there puir Steenie cried for a mutchkin of brandy, for he had had no refreshment the haill day.
"I think," said Ratcliffe, "we maun just try Madge; and I'll see if I can get her keepit in ony better order. And at ony rate, if he suld hear her skirting her auld ends o' sangs, he's no to ken for that that there's onybody wi' her." "That's true," said Sharpitlaw; "and if he thinks her alone, he's as like to come towards her as to rin frae her.
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