lack-o'-me

Updated: May 14, 2025

"'For three hundred pounds, and legal interest for six months, said my unwelcome visiter, wi' a face that shewed as little concern for the calamity in which, through mere simplicity and goodness of heart, I was involved, as if he had ordered me to take a pipe, and blow three hundred soap-bubbles! "'Oh! lack-o'-me! cried I, 'is that possible? Is Mr Swanston sic a villain?

- Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17