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"There ye are at yer English again! an' misgugglin' Scriptur' wi' 't an' a' this upo' Setterday nicht maist the Sawbath day! Weel, I ha'e aye h'ard 'at Lon'on was an awfu' place, but I little thoucht the verra air o' 't wad sae sune turn an honest laad like Ma'colm MacPhail intill a scoffer. But maybe it's the markis o' 'im, an' no the muckle toon 'at's made the differ.
I vse nocht to vryt on the bak of ony of my letteris concerning this errand. On the back ‘Sprott,’ ‘bookit’ . Robert Logan of Restalrig to the Earl of Gowrie. My Lo.—My maist humbill dewtie vith servise in maist hartly maner remembred. Yit alvayse my lo. And the soner ve broght owr purpose to pass it ver the better, before harwest.
"'Hout, mon, says Sawney, 'he is nae nateral, that chiel; he kens mair than maist men; he is nae that fool you take him to be. "Now, I am not such a fool as you take me to be, Squire.
I hae been as far as Muscovia in my sma' trading way, as a travelling merchant, and I hae been through France, and the Low Countries, and a' Poland, and maist feck o' Germany, and O! it would grieve your honour's soul to see the murmuring and the singing and massing that's in the kirk, and the piping that's in the quire, and the heathenish dancing and dicing upon the Sabbath!
Fired with a sudden valour, Lovel drew his sword and led the way to the sinister room. The door was open, and the place lay empty, save for the dead body. Oates stood beside it, looking, with his bandy legs great shoulders, and bull neck, like some forest baboon. "Oh, maist haunourable and noble victim!" he cried.
'Mak ye! says he; 'maircy is no a thing ye strain through a sieve, mon; it droppeth like the gentle dew fra' heaven upon the place beneath; it blesses him that gives and him that taks; it becomes the king better than his throne, and airthly power is maist like God's power when maircy seasons justice." Robert Haw, Fisherman.
"I am now Estaiblished," she repeated. "Div ye ken the new asseestant frae Inchcawdy pairish? "I trust, leddies, that ye'll mak' the maist o' your releegious preevileges, an' that ye'll be constant at the kurruk. Have you given papa's consent, Salemina? And isn't it dreadful that he is Scotch?" "Isn't it dreadful that she is not?" asked Mr. Macdonald.
"It was a' a mistak' an' naebody is to blame. We are just driven alang, an' we canna help oorsel's it's awfu' to hae sic feelin's an' an' no' hae any poo'er to guide them richt it's ay the things we want maist that we dinna get. Kiss me, Rob kiss me, as you kissed me yon nicht on the muir. Haud me like you an' I think I can gang content. Oh, Rob, ay liket you it was you I wanted a' the time!"
But come, Bailie, be not cast down; drink your wine with a joyous heart; the Baron shall return safe and victorious to Tully-Veolan, and unite Killancureit's lairdship with his own, since the cowardly half-bred swine will not turn out for the Prince like a gentleman. 'To be sure, they lie maist ewest, said the Bailie, wiping his eyes, 'and should naturally fa' under the same factory.
Maist of the plain folk i' the world are honest and straight and upright in their dealings. But do you ken hoo, in a basket of apples, ane rotten one wi' corrupt the rest? Weel, it's sae wi' men. Put ane who's disaffected, and discontented, and nitter, in a shop and he'll mak' trouble wi' all the rest that are but seeking the do their best. "Ca' Canny!" Ha' ye no heard that phrase?
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