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Updated: June 23, 2025
Ay, but there's things I see an' hear 'at maks me lauch, an' that's the other side o' humour." "I never heard it put sae plain afore," said T'nowhead, "an', sal, am no nane sure but what am a humorist too." "Na, na, no you, T'nowhead," said Tammas, hotly. "Weel," continued the farmer, "I never set up for bein' a humorist, but I can juist assure ye 'at I lauch at queer things too.
Pleased as he was with what he found, he still incessantly grumbled at his ill-fortune. "Aros," he said, "is no' a place for wrecks ava' no' ava'. A' the years I've dwalt here, this ane maks the second; and the best o' the gear clean tint!"
Marget lifted her head as one who had heard of some brave deed, and there was a ring in her voice. "It maks me prood before God that there are twa men in Drumtochty who follow their conscience as king, and coont truth dearer than their ain freends.
He spak straucht oot the day, and I did the same, and angert him; and syne he angert me. 'And whatfor are ye tellin me the noo? 'Cause it cam intil my heid 'at maybe it would be better no 'at it maks ony differ I can see. During this conversation Marion was washing the supper-things, putting them away, and making general preparation for bed.
His words were very quiet, but his eyes looked full of stars. 'I canna tell what it is aboot the sun 'at maks a dog o' me! he said. 'He's hard-like, and hauds me oot, and gars me hing my heid, and feel as gien I wur a kin' o' ashamed, though I ken o' naething. But the bonny nicht comes straucht up to me, and into me, and gangs a' throuw me, and bides i' me; and syne I luik for the bonny man!
"It was e'en judged sae," said Dinmont, "and I think this maks it likely; for they aye ken where the gangs o' ilk ither I are to be found, and they can gar news flee like a footba' through the country an they like. "And how comes that?" said Bertram.
"Some fowk says the auld man's name's no MacPhail, an' he maun hae come here in hidin' for some rouch job or ither 'at he's been mixed up wi'. "I s' believe nae ill o' sic a puir, hairmless body. Fowk 'at maks their ain livin', wantin' the een to guide them, canna be that far aff the straucht. "I was but tellin' ye what fowk telled me," returned the younger woman.
The night was dark, but self-preservation maks nae gobs at dangers; so on she went, till in the grey morning she made up to the Glasgow carrier, wha agreed to gie her a cast even to the end o' his journey. It was the next night when she arrived at my door, cold and hungry, and, what was waur, sair and sick at heart.
"He hes been a gude man tae her through the dark an' through the licht, an' she hes tried tae repay him as a puir imperfect wumman can, an' her hert is warm to him, but there hes aye been ae thing wantin' an' it hes been that wife's cross a' her life there wes nae ither man, but her husband wesna, isna, canna be her ain a'thegither an' for ever for the want o' luve that luve o' luve that maks marriage."
These are my tenets, my lovely friend; and which I think cannot well be disputed. My creed is pretty nearly expressed in the last clause of Jamie Dean's grace, an honest weaver in Ayrshire, "Lord, grant that we may lead a gude life; for a gude life maks a gude end, at least it helps weel!" I am flattered by the entertainment you tell me you have found in my packet.
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