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Thus saying, he sat down, and fetching one or two deep aspirations, by way of recovering his breath, called to the landlady "I think, Luckie, now that I find that there's nae hole in my wame, whilk I had muckle reason to doubt frae the doings o' your house, I wad be the better o' something to pit intill't."
Aunt Constance, who kept an eye of culture on Maggie's dialect, reported that she had said of the old lady, that she was a "douce auld luckie": and that she stood in need of no "bonny-wawlies and whigmaleeries," which, Miss Grahame said, meant that she had no need of artificial decoration. She was very happy by herself, reading any easy book with big enough print.
Cadell's, it seemed a desert-like, back-going town, about half full of ruined houses; but the ale-house was clean, and Alan, who was now in a glowing heat, must indulge himself with a bottle of ale, and carry on to the new luckie with the old story of the cold upon his stomach, only now the symptoms were all different.
But, to return to what I was saying, Luckie Howatson is very. expeditious, for this lass " Here the desultory and long-winded narrative of the Laird was interrupted by the voice of someone ascending the stairs from the kitchen story, and singing at full pitch of voice. The high notes were too shrill for a man, the low seemed too deep for a woman.
"Ou, sir, the bairn aye held an unca wark wi' the supervisor, and it was generally thought he went on board the vessel with him." "No, no; you're clean out there, Luckie! The young laird was stown awa' by a randy gipsy woman they ca'd Meg Merrilies," said the deacon.
I was petrified; I could hae drawn down the roof o' the house upon my head to bury me! In a moment a confused recollection o' the proceedings at Luckie Macnaughton's flashed across my memory, like a flame from the bottomless pit!
Osbaldistone to Luckie Flyter's, at the corner o' the wynd. Mr. Osbaldistone" in a whisper "ye'll offer nae incivility to Mattie she's an honest man's daughter, and a near cousin o' the Laird o' Limmerfield's." "Will it please your worship to accept of my poor service?
But this is a complete fixture-he has his winter seat by the fire, and his summer seat by the window, in Luckie Wood's, betwixt which seats are his only migrations; there he's to be found at all times when he is off duty. It is my opinion he never puts off his clothes or goes to sleep sheer ale supports him under everything. It is meat, drink, and clothing, bed, board, and washing."
"No, no," said the Deacon, "ye're clean out there, Luckie for the young Laird was stown away by a randy gipsy woman they ca'd Meg Merrilies, I mind her looks weel, in revenge for Ellangowan having gar'd her be drumm'd through Kippletringan for stealing a silver spoon." "If ye'll forgie me, Deacon," said the precentor, "ye're e'en as far wrang as the gudewife."
'Here sit I, he said, 'a placed minister of the Kirk of Scotland, and here sit my three sons, each a placed minister of the same kirk. confess, Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house before. The question was not premised by any invitation to sit down and take a glass of wine or the like, so Mrs.
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