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"What could an untidy, hardened old single man like me do with you in his house?" he said. "Oh, you little limmer, to put such a thought into my head." "I never did!" she exclaimed, indignantly. "It began, I do believe it began," he sighed, "the first time I saw you easying Ballingall's pillows." "What began?" "You brat, you wilful brat, don't pretend ignorance. You set a trap to catch me, and "
"Twelve hunner and fifteen that's every day since I had the limmer rowpit!* Dod, David, I'll have her roasted on red peats before I'm by with it! A witch a proclaimed witch! I'll aff and see the session clerk." * Sold up. And with that he opened a chest, and got out a very old and well-preserved blue coat and waistcoat, and a good enough beaver hat, both without lace.
'But now tell me, my excellent friend, how did you find out I was here? 'Od, lad, queerly eneugh, said Dandie; 'but I'll tell ye that after we are done wi' our supper, for it will maybe no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and out o' the room.
'Have you a mother? The child's brown eyes filled with tears, and his cheeks flushed. 'It was in India that she 'Yes, be a man, Tommy. I am looking the other way, which Merton did for some seconds. 'Now, Tommy, is Miss Limmer kind to you? The child's face became strangely set and blank; his eyes looking vacant. 'Miss Limmer is very kind to us. She loves us and we love her dearly.
Here another deep courtesy, when the ungracious voice of her mother was heard. "Madge, ye limmer! If I come to fetch ye!" "Hear till her," said Madge.
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. "Twelve hunner and fifteen that's every day since I had the limmer rowpit!
"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!"
Well, her nest is scarcely cold, when in comes me Mistress Adversity, a wee outspoken sour crabbit gizzened anatomy of an old woman "You ne'erdoweel, Tam," quoth she, "is it no enough that you consort with that scarlet limmer, who has just yescaped thorough the winday, but ye maun smoors my firstborn, puir Conscience, atween ye? Whare hae ye stowed him, mantell me that?"
Did I bring you up i' the fear o' the Lord to slash at men wi' your dirk an' fight wi' them like a wild limmer? I've been ower-easy wi' you. Weel, I'll do my painfu' duty the nicht, lass." The Scotchman's eyes were as hard and as inexorable as those of a hanging judge. "Yes," the girl answered in a small voice. "That's why he brought me home instead of taking me to his own camp.
She was, it is to be presumed, an older woman than her mistress, probably nurse to Jean in her infancy. What is known in Scotland as a `limmer, obviously. ``As for the two other women, Jean continues,
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