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The curate is playing at dice wi' Cornet Grahame. Be eident and civil to them baith clergy and captains can gie an unco deal o' fash in thae times, where they take an ill-will. The dragoons will be crying for ale, and they wunna want it, and maunna want it they are unruly chields, but they pay ane some gate or other.
One of the ferry hands not understanding, called to the stranger, "Hoot mon, ye maunna hort oor dawg." "Whaes hortin 'im, ye fule; he is mair like to hort me." But further explanation was not necessary. Wully's manner had wholly changed. He fawned on the drover, and his tail was wagging violently for the first time in years. A few words made it all clear.
Light down, light down; for ye maunna gang farther the night, and a friend's house sae near. The farmer was obliged to dismount, and accept of the gipsy's offer of supper and a bed.
here He maunna think to domineer. Liberalism," continued the anonymous journalist, "is of too free and sound a growth," etc. Richard Naseby read the whole thing from beginning to end; and a crushing shame fell upon his spirit. His father had played the fool; he had gone out noisily to war, and come back with confusion. The moment that his trumpets sounded, he had been disgracefully unhorsed.
Od, ye are a clever birkie! The woman touched his coat again. 'The gentleman is a gentleman, Willie ye maunna speak that gate to him, hinnie. 'The deevil I maunna! said Willie; 'and what for maunna I? If he was ten gentles, he canna draw a bow like me, can he?
"She maunna lat it pass." "It was a lee! It was a lee!" gasped Elsie. Cosmo ran, and from the top of the rise called aloud, "Aggie! Aggie! come back." Beyond her he saw another country girl approaching, but took little heed of her. Aggie turned at his call, and came to him quickly. "She confesses it's a lee, Aggie," he said.
"Weel, we maunna stan' oot here i' the cauld: come this gait," said Malcolm. "The bairnie 'll get its deid." "There wadna be mony to greit at that," returned Lizzy, and pressed the child closer to her bosom. Malcolm led the way to the little chamber contrived under the temple in the heart of the hill, and unlocking the door made her enter.
Mailsetter; "haud awa bide aff, I tell you; this is nane o' your fourpenny cuts that we might make up the value to the post-office amang ourselves if ony mischance befell it; the postage is five-and-twenty shillings and here's an order frae the Secretary to forward it to the young gentleman by express, if he's no at hame. Na, na, sirs, bide aff; this maunna be roughly guided."
'Oh, jist guessed. It's her? 'Maybe. . . . She hasna ta'en the ring yet. 'But ye think she will, or ye wudna ha'e tell't me. Weel, I'm sure I wish ye luck, Macgreegor. She's a bonny bit lass, rael clever, I wud say, an' an' gey stylish. 'She's no that stylish onyway, no stylish like Aunt Purdie. 'Ah, but ye maunna cry doon yer Aunt Purdie 'I didna mean that. But ye ken what I mean, fayther.
I thought it best to slip out quietly though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun to do we maunna vex her at nae rate it was amaist the last word my father said to me on his deathbed." "By no means, Hobbie," said Earnscliff; "she well merits all your attention." "Troth, for that matter, she would be as sair vexed amaist for you as for me.
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