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I wad be aye i' the libbrary, I think. But," he went on, glancing involuntarily at the dainty little foot that peered from under her dress, "yer leddyship's sae licht fittit, ye'll be ower the haill dwallin', like a wee bird in a muckle cage. Whan I want room, I like it wantin' wa's." Once more he was on the point of going, but once more a word detained him. "Do you ever read poetry?"
But in your bonny southern speech, I daursay ye wad ca' him or her, I dinna ken whilk the cratur was ye wad ca' 't Ayriel?" "I don't know anything about him or her or it," said Lady Florimel. "Ye'll hae a' aboot him up i' the libbrary there though," said Malcolm. "The Tempest's the only ane o' Shakspere's plays 'at I hae read, but it's a gran' ane, as Maister Graham has empooered me to see."
Mr Graham that's the schoolmaister has a gran' libbrary, but it's maist Laitin an' Greek, an' though I like the Laitin weel, it's no what I wad read i' the face o' the sea. When ye're in dreid o' wantin' a dictionar', that spiles a'." "Can you read Latin then?" "Ay: what for no, my leddy?
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