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Who stands ginger-beer at Lucky MacWhae's, answer me that, Jock, ye meeserable wretch?" and then clinching every argument on "Who paid for the broken glass? I'm doon richt ashamed o' ye, Jock Howieson." "Will ye go yourself, Speug?" demanded Jock, writhing under this torrent of reproach. "I think I see ye writin' an essay on the history o' the Romans, or sic like trash.
Trail said, at last, "the man wha lies here was a decent, pious auld country body, and I drove him to his meeserable death in the Cowgate." "Man, ye dinna ken what ye're sayin'!" was the shocked response. "Do I no'? I'm canny, by the ordinar', but my fule tongue will get me into trouble with the magistrates one of these days. It aye wags at both ends, and is no' tied in the middle."
"You and your brither wear the life oot o' me, wi' your pride and ill-temper. Tak' the boat, Angus." "You let it alone, Angus. It is my boat, and I'll send the water-bailiff after you for theft, if you lift her anchor." "You will, will you? You mean meeserable hizzy! Then you'll hae to tak me up wi' Angus; for I'm wi' him, and will stand by him, afore a' the lords o' Edinburgh.
"That'll learn him to be meddling with canes. It's plenty that Bulldog has a cane, without yon meeserable wretch"; and that was the last effort which Moossy made to exercise discipline. Every afternoon he made a pitiable appeal that the boys would behave and learn their verbs.
He was dirty, ragged, unkempt, and feeble, but quite sober, and pathetically anxious for human sympathy. "I'm achty-sax year auld, he maundered, apropos of nothing, "achty-sax year auld. I've seen five lairds o' Pettybaw, sax placed meenisters, an' seeven doctors. I was a mason, an' a stoot mon i' thae days, but it's a meeserable life noo. Wife deid, bairns deid!
"Well," said McTavish again, "there's no use crying over spilt milk. But is your conscience up to a heavy load?" "'Tis a meeserable vehicle at best," protested Traquair. "You must pretend," said McTavish, "that you have not yet told me." "Ah!" Traquair exclaimed. "You wish to think it over." "I do," said McTavish. Both were silent for some moments.
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