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"It took them a gude fower oors tae get across, an' it wes coorse wark; they likit him weel doon that wy, an', Jamie man" here Drumsheugh's voice changed its note, and his public manner disappeared "what div ye think o' this? every man o' them hes on his blacks." "It's mair than cud be expeckit," said Jamie; "but whar dae yon men come frae, Drumsheugh?"
"But was it no vulgar?" "Vulgar!" said Grizel. "Why, Gavinia, that is how every lady would like a man to love her." And then Gavinia beamed. "I'm glad you say that," she said; "for, though I wouldna tell Corp for worlds, I fell likit it." But Grizel told Corp that Gavinia liked it. "It was the proof," she said, smiling, "that you have the right to marry her. You have shown your ticket.
"I wad hae likit hay better," he said, pointing to this lair rather than couch, "but it's some ill to get, an' the spales they 're at han', an' they smell unco clean." At the opposite side of the room lay a corresponding heap, differing not a little, however, in appearance and suggestion.
"I know that as well as you," replied Lady Joan. "Na, ye canna du that,'cause ye haena kent him sae lang." "Will you tell me why you would not marry him?" "For ae thing,'cause he likit you better nor me, only he thoucht ye was merried, an' he didna like lattin' me gang frae the hoose." "Thank you, Agnes," said Joan, with a smile nothing less than heavenly. "He was so obstinate!"
"The nicht's near gane," he said, "an' I'll sleep nae mair; for I aye likit to greet the mornin' licht." We gathered closer, the old childish instinct which drove us to the wharf's very edge when the sails were being hoisted and the anchor weighed. He beckoned me closer and I bent to catch his words.
"Whatten kind of a thing?" says grandfaither. "There cannae be naething on the Bass but just the sheep." "It looks unco like a body," quo' Sandie, who was nearer in. "A body!" says we, and we none of us likit that. For there was nae boat that could have brought a man, and the key o' the prison yett hung ower my faither's at hame in the press bed.
Whan she cam' in, she pat tu the door ahint her, an' turnt to me, an' said says she: 'An wha 's deid forbye, think ye? 'I hae hard o' naebody, I answered. 'Wha but the laird o' Gersefell! says she. 'I'm sorry to hear that, honest ma! says I; for a'body likit Mr Stewart.
Warrigal rode along with his head down, reading every tuft of grass, every little stone turned up, every foot of sand, like a book. 'Your old fader run likit Black Gully. Two fellow track here bullet longa this one tree. Here he pointed to a scratch on the side of a box tree, in which the rough bark had been shivered. 'Bimeby two fellow more come; 'nother one bullet; 'nother one here, too.
That was too bad of you, Robert. 'Weel, ye see, sir, I didna ken better. An' I had a heap to do, an' a' for naething, efter a'. But gin I had kent 'at ye wad like to see me, I wad hae likit weel to come to ye. 'I have been away most of the summer, said the doctor; 'but I have been at home for the last month. You haven't had your dinner, have you? 'Weel, I dinna exackly ken what to say, sir.
Weel, I assure ye, I had nae suner said 'at he was rale wise to marry wha he likit than he slips a pound note into my hand. Ou, Jess, we've ta'en the wrang wy wi' Jeames. I've telt a' my bairns 'at if they meet him they're to praise the wife terrible, an' I'm far mista'en if that doesna mean five shillin's to ilka ane o' them."
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