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Updated: May 18, 2025
Eh, lack-a-day! lack-a-day! here's a change o' markets! how merry Colonel Mac-Ivor and you used to be in our house! And the good-natured widow shed a few natural tears. As there was no resisting her claim of acquaintance, Waverley acknowledged it with a good grace, as well as the danger of his own situation.
Only as he went back and called again at Mrs. Lightfoot's for his basket, she asked whether he had found Seth Coleman, and if his brother had come to such preferment as was reported. "Yea," said Steadfast, "he hath a grant of land, and a castle, and a wife." "Eh, now! Lack-a-day! 'Tis alway the most feather-pated that fly highest." Cromwell's Ironsides feather-pated!
I would have made his memory a scoff and a hissing!" "That is the bitterest thing he has said yet," observed the keeper. "Poor Will would have liked the hissing worse than all the rest." "Will the gentleman say any more?" enquired Phoebe in a whisper. "Lack-a-day, he talks brave words, if one knew but what they meant.
"But I'm in a preceese hurry, gudewife," said the butler, suffering himself to be dragged to a seat without much resistance; "and as to eating," for he observed the mistress of the dwelling bustling about to place a trencher for him "as for eating lack-a-day, we are just killed up yonder wi' eating frae morning to night!
Indeed, every town and village, great or small, which you pass through or near on the railway, looks as if you came fifty years before you were expected. It says, in all the legible expressions of its countenance, "Lack-a-day! if here isn't that creature come already, and looking in at my back door before I had time to turn around, or put anything in shape!"
Were we to live a hundred years together which, God forfend he would never understand me. Ah, lack-a-day, oh, misery me! What, then, has marriage brought me? First of all a husband.
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