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"You do not mean to contradict the good character your master gives you?" said the lady, with a smile and a look right into his eyes. "I wadna hae ye lippen till me afore ye had my word," said Malcolm. "I may use my own judgment about that," she replied, with another winning smile. "But oblige me by taking a glass of wine." She rose and approached the decanters.
"Ye can du as yer lordship likes," answered Miss Horn; "but I wadna hae 't said o' me 'at I had ony dealin's wi' her. Wha kens but she micht say ye tried to bribe her? There 's naething she wad bogle at gien she thoucht it worth her while. No 'at I 'm feart at her. Lat her lee! I 'm no sae blate but ! Only dinna lippen till a word she says, my lord." The marquis meditated.
'O James, man, pardon me, pardon me. I was, I see now, too much taken up with my own heart and its pollutions to think enough of you and the rest. 'It was that, and the like of that, witnessed Cowie, 'that did me and my wife more good than all my master's well-studied sermons. The intimacy and tenderness of the minister and his man went on deeper and grew closer, till at the end we find Cowie reading to him at his own request the Epistle to the Romans, and when the reader came to the passage, 'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, the listener burst into tears, and exclaimed, 'James, James, halt there, for I have nothing but that to lippen to. And then, on the ladder, and before a great crowd of Edinburgh citizens: 'I own that I am a sinner yea, and one of the vilest that ever made a profession of religion.
He's gauin' to lea' us a', an' gang hame till 's ain, an' I canna bide 'at he sud grow strange-like to hiz 'at ha'e kenned him sae lang." I mayna aye be able to du jist what ye wad like; but lippen ye to me: I s' be fair to ye. An' noo I want Blue Peter to gang wi' me, an' help me to what I ha'e to du gien ye ha'e nae objection to lat him."
"Your master speaks very kindly of you. He seems to trust you thoroughly." "I'm verra glaid to hear 't, mem; but he has never had muckle cause to trust or distrust me yet." "He seems even to think that I might place equal confidence in you." "I dinna ken. I wadna hae ye lippen to me owre muckle," said Malcolm.
'I'm sae sure o' haein' 't back again, ye ken, wi' interest, returned Mrs. Falconer. 'Hoo's that? His father winna con ye ony thanks for haudin' him in life. 'He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord, ye ken, Miss Lammie. 'Atweel, gin ye like to lippen to that bank, nae doobt ae way or anither it'll gang to yer accoont, said Miss Lammie.
"Gien I cudna lippen my Donal till's ain company an' the hunger for better, I wad begin to doobt wha made the warl'," said his mother; and Donal's face flushed with pleasure at her confidence. "Na, he maun get a garret roomie some gait i' the toon, an' there haud till's buik; an ye'll lat Gibbie gang an' see him whiles whan he can be spared.
"It's nae ceremony the day, ye may lippen tae it; it's the hert brocht the fouk, an' ye can see it in their faces; ilka man hes his ain reason, an' he's thinkin' on't though he's speakin' o' naethin' but the storm; he's mindin' the day Weelum pued him out frae the jaws o' death, or the nicht he savit the gude wife in her oor o' tribble.
I ken no ill to lay till her chairge, but I winna lippen till her. My gran'father an' he's blin', ye ken jist trimles whan she comes near him." The marquis smiled. "What do you suppose she was about?" he asked. "I ken nae mair than the bonnet I flang in her face, my lord; but it could hardly be guid she was efter.
He ran down to the cellar at the risk of breaking his neck, to ransack some private catacomb, known, as he boasted, only to himself, and which never either had, or should, during his superintendence, renden forth a bottle of its contents to any one but a real king's friend. I jaloused him, sir, no to be the friend to government he pretends: the family are not to lippen to.
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