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"'He's a Bible preacher, at any rate, says Burnbrae tae me laist Fast, for, honest man, he hes aye some gude word for a body. "'It's ae thing, I said to him, 'tae feed a calf wi' milk, and anither tae gie it the empty cogie tae lick.
They 'ill fecht ower the Confession noo, and laist Sabbath's sermon, in the Kildrummie train, till it's clean reediklus. But aff they set again, and then comes anither spatie, and the doctor hes tae bring them roond. They slip aff sudden in the end, and then they juist gang plunk ay," said Archie in a tone of gentle meditation, looking, as it were, over the edge, "juist plunk."
"Oh no, not the laist; only it ain't usual in you to be asking such questions." "But if there's no harum, I ask it now; where were you getting the collar?" "Well, you're very queer; but if you must know, Captain Ussher brought it with him from Mohill."
"Ah! but it'll be Anty's consent, now, you know. She mayn't like Toneroe. But tell me all about it. What put it into your head?" "Why, my lord, you run away so fast; one can't tell you anything. I didn't say I was going to marry her at laist, not for certain; I only said I might do worse." "Well then; are you going to marry her, or rather, is she going to marry you, or is she not?"
"It's a bonnie word, an' yir mither wes a sanct; but it's no for the like o' me. It's ower gude; a' daurna tak it. "Shut the buik an' let it open itsel, an' ye 'ill get a bit a've been readin' every nicht the laist month."
"I'st true Elspeth scuffled wi' her feet at the laist head and gar'd him close?" "A'll neither deny nor affirm, Drumsheugh; but there's nae doot when the mune began tae shine aboot nine, and Mactavish started aff on the Devil, somebody scrapit aside me. It wesna Jeems; he daurna for his life; and it wesna me. A'll no say but it micht be Elspeth, but she wes sair provokit.
Well, wid that ma'am, I rushed into the room at laist, I didn't rush in for how could I, and the door locked? but I knocked agin and agin, for I war afeard he would be murthering her out and out.
"It's a bonnie word, an' yir mither wes a sanct; but it's no for the like o' me. It's ower gude; a' daurna tak it. "Shut the buik an' let it open itsel, an' ye 'ill get a bit a've been readin' every nicht the laist month."
There's people here that will die if they're brought outside the door. We did not, at laist the most part of all you see before you, think you had any thought of houldin' good your threat in such a time of cowld, and storm, and disolation. Look at us, sir, then, have pity on us!
"It's a bonnie word, an' yir mither wes a sanct; but it's no for the like o' me. It's ower gude; a' daurna tak it. "Shut the buik an' let it open itsel, an' ye 'ill get a bit a've been readin' every nicht the laist month."
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