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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Sooth!" cried he, "and for once in your life ye are right, guidwife there is mair wisdom in that remark than I would hae gien ye credit for. To-morrow, the birkie o' Harden shall have his choice either upon the instant to marry our daughter, Meikle-mouthed Meg, or strap for it."
Even in death he shall feel that I despise him; and a proof o' this I have given him already; for he has offered to save my life, providing I would marry his daughter, Meikle-mouthed Meg. But I have scorned his proposal."
It was early on the following morning that Meikle-mouthed Meg, as she was called, requested an interview with her father, which being granted, after respectfully rendering obeisance before him, she said "So, faither, I understand that it is your pleasure that I shall this day become the wife o' young Scott o' Harden.
But go ye and prepare Meg for becoming a bride the morn, and I shall see what the intended bridegroom says to the proposal." In obedience to his commands, she went to an apartment in which their eldest daughter Agnes, but commonly called "Meikle-mouthed Meg," then sat, twirling a distaff.
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