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After a long pause: "And he wanted you to say something to you folks that wad save my young life?" said Effie. "He wanted," said Jeannie, "that I shuld be mansworn!" "And you tauld him," said Effie, "that ye wadna hear o' coming between me and death, and me no aughteen year auld yet?"
'They dinna hang the like of him for twisting a goose's neck; it was for the puir leal laddie; and ye may tak' that to him. 'Shall I, Elleen? asked David, with a twinkle in his eye of cousinly teasing. 'An' ye do not, I shall proclaim ye in the lists at Nanci as a corbie messenger and mansworn squire, unworthy of your spurs, threatened Jeanie, in all good humour however.
They taunted me and plucked me by the lip; but their boasting of what they had done flashed more fiercely over my spirit than even these indignities, and I inwardly chided the slow anger of the mysterious Heavens for permitting the rage of those agents of the apostate James Sharp and his compeers, whom a mansworn king had so cruelly dressed with his authority.
There are the nuns at Gateshead, as hard as nails, will not hear of a maid without a dower, and yonder mansworn fellow Copeland casts her off like an old glove! Let us look at you, wench! Ha! Face is unsightly enough, but thou wilt not be a badly-made woman. Take heart, what's thy name Grisell?
No, the one in the left-hand drawer, most ignorant of varlets! Now I pose it on my princessly locks! "Tell me which you think I should like best. I deliver this subject to your meditations. You are not to show my letter to Jean nor allow her to read a single word of hers to you. If you do, I shall hold you for ever faithless and mansworn! "Your obedient, faithful scullery-maid or princess,
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