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'What maks me your fowk, Steenie? she rejoined. 'That's easy to tell! It's 'cause we hae the same father and mither; I hae aye kenned that! answered Steenie with a laugh. She had been trying to puzzle him, he thought, but had failed! 'Weel, the bonny man and you and me, we hae a' the same father: that's what maks us his ain fowk! Ye see noo? 'Ay, I see!
'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 are to be found, and they can gar news flee like a footba' through the country an they like.
If he reproved her, she replied meekly, "What can you expect frae a woman that doesna wear gloves?" To the baby she said: "He despises you, my bonny, because you hae no gloves. Ay, that's what maks him turn up his nose at you. But your mother is fond o' you, gloves or no gloves." She told the baby the story of the glove daily, with many monstrous additions.
An ill man, or wuman, like Mistress Catanach, for enstance, 'at's a'boady, 'cep' what o' her 's deevil," "Nonsense!" said the marquis, angrily; but Malcolm went on: " maun be jist fu' o' ghaists! An' for onything I ken, that 'll be what maks ghaists o' themsel's efter they 're deid, settin' them waukin', as they ca' 't.
Miss Naper maks me welcome as weel's you. 'An' I will mak ye welcome, Robert, as lang's ye're a gude lad, as ye are, and gang na efter nae ill gait. But lat me hear o' yer doin' as sae mony young gentlemen do, espeacially whan they're ta'en up by their rich relations, an', public-hoose as this is, I'll close the door o' 't i' yer face.
"'Blessing on your heart, says the proverb, 'you brew good ale. It's a Christian virtue, eh, Father?" said Monsey, addressing Matthew in the opposite corner. "Praise the ford as ye find it," said that sage; "I've found good yal maks good yarn. Folks that wad put doon good yal ought to be theirselves putten doon."
"Brethren, we came from your country & bring you to ours, not to see you perish unlesse we perish with you. You know that the ffrench are men, & maks forts that cannot be taken so soone therefore cheare upp, ffor we love you & will die with you." This being ended, nothing but howling & crying. We brought our castors & tyed them 8 by 8, and rowled them before us.
To tak her wi' me the first time I gang to a strange hoose, as gin I thocht a'body wad think as muckle o' my auld wife as I do mysel'! That wadna be mainners wad it noo, Mr. Ericson? 'But I told Mr. Lindsay that you could play well. The old gentleman is fond of Scotch tunes, and you will please him if you take it. 'That maks a' the differ, answered Robert.
"I dinna ken whether I oucht to hae mentioned it to ane that wasna a member, though; but it jist cam oot o' 'tsel' like." "Sae the fac' that a man's a member wha's warst crime may be that he is a member, maks him sic precious gear that he maunna be meddlet wi' i' the presence o' an honest man, wha, thank God, has neither pairt nor lot in ony sic maitter?" "Dinna be angry, Mr Cupples.
"In that case," he replied, "it seems to me the offender wad hae to cast aboot him for ane fit to be trustit, and to him reveal the haill affair, that he may get his help to see and do what's richt: it maks an unco differ to luik at a thing throuw anither man's een, i' the supposed licht o' anither man's conscience!
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