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"Where's your answer?" "I said I wad be a yerl to please yer leddyship. I wad be a flunky for the same rizzon, gien 't was to wait upo' yersel' an' nae ither." "I ask you," said Florimel, more imperiously than ever, "what is the first thing you would do, if you found yourself no longer a fisherman, but the son of an earl?"
"If they did," Thomas said, "I daur say they had mair sinse than sit down to eat their dinner in the middle o' snaw if they had a house to tak it in." "Her leddyship does na' tak the cauld easy," said John. "She has the constitution o' a horse," Thomas remarked. "Man," said John, "that shows a' that ye ken about horses: there's no a mair delicate beast on the face o' the earth than the horse.
"Are you away from all your friends? Are you homesick?" "I ha'e naebody belanging to me, me leddy." "You are an orphan?" "Aye, me leddy." "Then you must really tell me what is the matter with you, my poor child; I will help you if I can." "Indeed I canna tell you, my leddy. Your leddyship maun please to forgi'e me, and not mind me greeting. It's just naething; it's ony a way I ha'e."
Read it; it refers no doubt to the boxes she has forwarded," said Lady Hurstmonceux. Claudia smiled, bowed, broke the seal, and read as follows: "Castle Cragg, Thursday Morning. "Me Leddy: I hae the honor to forward your leddyship's boxes fra the castle. I hope your leddyship will find a' richt. There hae been unco ill doings here sin your leddyship left.
"I've heard naethin' o't," the little man answered dryly. At which some one in the crowd sniggered. "And we all know what a grand dog he is; though" with a reproving smile as she glanced at Red Wull's square, truncated stern "he's not very polite." "His heart is good, your Leddyship, if his manners are not," M'Adam answered, smiling. "Liar!" came a loud voice in the silence.
"Ay, your leddyship, it is very bad," complains the distracted Hamish, "that it will be so rough a day this day, and Sir Keith not to come ashore in his own gig, but in a fishing-boat, and to come ashore at the fishing quay, too; but it is his own men will go out for him, and not the fishermen at all, though I am sure they will hef a dram whatever when Sir Keith comes ashore.
What he was to do wi' her, God only kens, but there can be nae doubt that he would get sma' favour and grace frae yer leddyship to ony attempt on the puir cratur's life.
Dugald's position in the family. She put out her hand and rang the bell that hung just within her reach. Katie answered it. "Tell the housekeeper I would like to see her now," said Lady Vincent. Katie tossed her head and went out. Katie was already jealous of the housekeeper. In a few minutes Mrs. Murdock entered. "I hope your leddyship is better," she said, courtesying.
Let Milnwood take my plaid and gown; I'll slip them aff in the dark corner, if he'll promise no to look about, and he may walk past Tam Halliday, who is half blind with his ale, and I can tell him a canny way to get out o' the Tower, and your leddyship will gang quietly to your ain room, and I'll row mysell in his grey cloak, and pit on his hat, and play the prisoner till the coast's clear, and then I'll cry in Tam Halliday, and gar him let me out."
Let yer leddyship be silent, an' I'll prove that yer leddyship bore the bairn; but ye maun ken that Geordie Willison has nae power ower the law when the seals are broken, the judgment will come; and I canna prove the birth o' the bairn without, at the same time, and by the same prufe, proving that ye attempted to strangle it, and left it for dead in the hedges o' Warriston.
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