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Then came Bassanio, the lad fra Veeneece, that Porsha loed in secret. Veeneece, lasses, is a wonderful city; the streets o' 't are water, and the carriages are boats that's in Chambers'." Flucker. "Wha are ye making a fool o'?" Christie. "What's wrang?" Flucker. "Yon's just as big a lee as ever I heerd."
Believe me, father, gien ye can; though I doobt sair ye winna be able!" "I believe ye, my bairn; and I thank God I hae that muckle pooer o' belief left in me! I confess I was in ower great a hurry, and I'm sure ye war takin the richt gait wi' yer puir mither. Ye see she loed ye sae weel that she could think o' nae thing or body but yersel! That's the w'y o' mithers, Jamie, gien ye only kenned it!
"A' that wad be naething gien ye loed me, Aggie." "Gien YE loed ME, say, Cosmo loed me eneuch to be prood o' me! But that ye dinna. Exem' yer ain hert, an' ye'll see 'at ye dinna. An' what for sud ye!" Here Aggie broke down. A burst of silent weeping, like that of one desiring no comfort, followed. Suddenly she ceased and rose, and they walked home without a word.
The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret Weel she loed a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a Tappit Hen. I have seen one of these formidable stoups at Provost Haswell's, at Jedburgh, in the days of yore. It was a pewter measure, the claret being in ancient days served from the tap, and had the figure of a hen upon the lid.
'Ye cudna hae dune better, Kirsty. But I'm sorry for the callan, for eh but I loed his father! Lassie, for his father's sake I cud tak Francie intil the hoose, and work for him as for you and Steenie though it's little guid Steenie ever gets o' me, puir sowl! 'Dinna say that, father. It wud be an ill thing for Steenie to hae onybody but yersel to the father o' 'im!
"I hae aye loed YOU, Aggie," said Cosmo, with some reproach in his tone. "Weel du I ken that. An ill hert wad be mine gien it didna tell me that! But, Cosmo, whan ye said the word, didna YOUR hert tell ye ye meant by 't something no jist the verra same as ye inten' it me to un'erstan' by 't?" "Aggie, Aggie!" sighed Cosmo, "I wad aye loe ye better an' better." "Ay, ye wad, gien ye cud, Cosmo.
"No reason whatever, sir if ye can and do: that point would be already settlet. But ye winna get Maggie to merry ye sae long as she disna believe ye loe her Lord as well as she loes him hersel. It's no a common love that Maggie beirs to her Lord; and gien ye loed her wi' a luve worthy o' her, ye would see that!" "Then you will promise me not to interfere?"
She held her face in her hands and sobbed aloud, "O Willie, Willie Douglas, mair than ony o' my ain I loed ye. Bonny were ye as a bairn. Bonny were ye as a laddie. Bonny abune a' as a noble young man and the desire o' maidens' e'en. But nane o' them a' loed ye like poor auld Barbara, that wad hae gien her life to pleasure ye.
Gien I had loed a lad like Jock, wad I hae latten him gang for a screed o' ill words! They micht hae sworn 'at likit for me! I wad ha latten them sweir! Na, na! Cosmo's for Elsie's betters!" Elsie appeared no more in any field that season staid at Muir o' Warlock, indeed, till the harvest was over. But what a day was that Sunday to Cosmo!
Div I no ken 'at his father gied him in chairge to you? and haena I therefore to luik efter him? Didna ye tell me a' aboot yer gran' freen' and hoo, and hoo lang ye had loed him? and didna that mak Francie my business as weel's yer ain? I'm verra sure his father wud never appruv o' ony gaeins on atween him and a lassie sic like's mysel; and fearna ye, father, but I s' hand him weel ootby.
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