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"He wad threip upo' me 'at I was ane o' thae lang tongued limmers 'at maks themsel's h'ard frae ae toon's en' to the tither! But I s' gar him priv 's words yet!" "Ye see, sir," interposed the mild Partan, anxious to shove extremities aside, "we didna ken 'at there was onything intill't by ord'nar. Gien we had but kent 'at he was oot o' your guid graces, "
"Ye may temper this or temper that," said Drumsheugh, going to the root of the matter, "but a' tell ye, Dominie, there's ower mony o' thae limmers in the country juist noo, an' a 'm for making an example o' Jean Ferguson."
"What is the matter, my son Harry?" said Simon, who now appeared at the window. "I hear thy voice in another tone than I expected. What is all this noise; and why are the neighbours gathering to the affray?" "There have been a proper set of limmers about to scale your windows, father Simon; but I am like to prove godfather to one of them, whom I hold here, as fast as ever vice held iron."
'As it's near the darkening, sir, wad ye just step in by to our house, and tak a dish o' tea? and I am sure, if ye like to sleep in the little room, I wad tak care ye are no disturbed, and naebody wad ken ye; for Kate and Matty, the limmers, gaed aff wi' twa o' Hawley's dragoons, and I hae twa new queans instead o' them.
"Only the pictur' o' some randy quean," his father answered, chucking away at the inanimate chin. "Gie it me!" David ordered fiercely. "It's mine." "Na, na," the little man replied. "It's no for sic douce lads as dear David to ha' ony touch wi' leddies sic as this." "Gie it me, I tell ye, or I'll tak' it!" the boy shouted. "Na, na; it's ma duty as yer dad to keep ye from sic limmers."
Rob seized her wrists viciously and glowered into her face. "You're ane o' them," he said. "Let me go. Ane o' what?" "Ane o' thae limmers called women." "Sal," retorted Jean with spirit, "you're ane o' thae brutes called men. You're drunk, Rob Dow." "In the legs maybe, but no higher. I haud a heap." "Drunk again, after all your promises to the minister!
There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg- foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose. I saw them plain, and they had grey eyes, and their screens upon their heads were of the Drummed colours.
He has a great many amusing episodes describing the light-fingered lads from the hills coming down, and in the general confusion of the times plundering Cavalier and Covenanter alike; and on these occasions he drops his usual placidity and becomes rabid and abusive, as the best-tempered Americans are said to become when they speak of niggers, and deals out to them the terms limmers, thieves, robbers, cut-throats, masterful vagrants, and so forth, with great volubility.
The pronouncing of the word dance by his own daughters, and at his own door, now drove him beyond the verge of patience. "Dance!" he exclaimed. "Dance! dance, said ye? I daur ye, limmers that ye are, to name sic a word at my door-cheek!
"Ay," replied Nanny, spiritedly, "but there's dauring limmers wherever there's a single man." "So I have often suspected," said Babbie, duly shocked. "But, Nanny, I was told the minister had a wife, by one who said he saw her." "He lied, then," answered Nanny turning to Gavin for further instructions. "But, see, the minister does not deny the horrid charge himself."
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