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"Say ye that, laddie?" cried Miss Horn, and, starting up, she grasped his arm and stood gazing in his face. "What ither sud I say?" rejoined Malcolm, surprised. "God be laudit!" exclaimed Miss Horn. "The limmer may say 'at she likes noo." "Ye dinna believe 't than, mem?" cried Malcolm. "Tell me ye dinna, an' haud me ohn curst like a cadger."
Manley came out from the master's garden door that evening he stumbled upon Speug, who was looking very miserable, but began to whistle violently the moment he was detected, and denied that he had come to ask for news. "You did, you young limmer, and you needn't tell me lies, for I know you, Speug, and your father before you. I wish I'd good news to give you, but I haven't.
Oh, agreeable change since last we were in this house! oh, happy picture of domestic bliss! oh but no, these are not the words; what we meant to say was, "Gavinia, you limmer, so you have got the better of that man of yours at last." How had she contrived it? We have seen her escorting the old lady to the Dovecot, Corp skulking behind.
And then on he rambled about the family, and its ancient greatness, and his father that began to enlarge the house, and himself that stopped the building as a sinful waste; and this put it in my head to give him Jennet Clouston's message. "The limmer!" he cried.
A loud rapping was heard at the door. 'That's no them. I dinna hear the wheels. Grizzel, ye limmer, gang to the door. 'It's a single gentleman, whined out Grizzel; 'maun I take him into the parlour? 'Foul be in your feet, then; it'll be some English rider. Coming without a servant at this time o' night! Has the hostler ta'en the horse? Ye may light a spunk o' fire in the red room.
Ask Batsy, he said in a monotonous voice, as if he were repeating a lesson. 'Batsy, come here, he said in the same voice. 'Is Miss Limmer kind to us? Batsy threw up her eyes it was like a stage effect, 'We love Miss Limmer dearly, and she loves us. She is very, very kind to us, like our dear mamma. Her voice was monotonous too. 'I never can say the last part, said Tommy.
"Why, Grizel," said the sage, somewhat abashed at this unexpected attack, "I thought I made a very fair bargain." "A fair bargain! when ye gied the limmer a full half o' what she seekit! An ye will be a wife-carle, and buy fish at your ain hands, ye suld never bid muckle mair than a quarter. And the impudent quean had the assurance to come up and seek a dram But I trow, Jenny and I sorted her!"
The two women appeared to be in hot dispute in the dingle. "It was all owing to you, you limmer," said the vulgar woman to the other; "had you not interfered, the old man would soon have settled the boy." "I'm for fair play and Long Melford," said the other.
"What do you say, you limmer?" says the ghost, starting up in his awry habiliments. "What do you say, you limmer?" repeated he in a great rage. "By the great oath, you had better leave my grandfather's head." Upon matters coming this length, the wily wife of Camp-del-more thought it proper to assume a more conciliatory aspect.
There was nothing finer than continuously to come upon praiseworthiness in your friend! "And a beautiful lady came by who was the king's favorite " "Gude guide us! The limmer!" "And she was walking on rose-colored velvet and her slippers had diamonds worked in them. Snow was on the ground outside and poor folk were freezing, but she carried over each arm a garland of roses as though it were June "
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