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I budena come ower them till a young laad like yersel'. They war never said straucht oot, min' ye, but jist mintit at, like, wi' a doon draw o' the broos, an' a wee side shak o' the heid, as gien the body wad say, 'I cud tell ye gien I daur. But I doobt mysel' gien onything was kent, though muckle was mair nor suspeckit. An' whaur there 's reik, there maun be fire."
It wud be naething but cat and dog atween's frae mornin to nicht! 'Ae body canna be cat and dog baith! And the dog's as ill's the cat whiles waur! 'Ony dog wud yowl gien ye threw a kettle o' bilin watter ower him! 'Did she that til ye? 'She mintit at it. I ran frae her. She bed the toddy-kettle in her ban', and she splasht it in her ain face tryin to fling't at me. 'Maybe she didna ken ye!
"Weel, sir," she said, with more severity than pique, and a certain sad injury not unmingled with dignity, "ye hae stappit ower my door-sill mony's the time, an' that wi' sairer words i' yer moo' nor I ever mintit at peyin' ye back; an' I never said to ye gang.
"Ow, ay; there's been mony an interferin circumstance; but whan His kingdom's come, things 'll tak a turn for the redemption o' the feet as weel as the lave o' the body as the apostle Paul says i' the twenty-third verse o' the aucht chapter o' his epistle to the Romans; only I'm weel aveesed, sir, 'at there's no sic a thing as adoption mintit at i' the original Greek.
"What gars ye speir, grannie?" he returned, with assumed indifference. "I dinna believe there was anither like the ane that's like," she replied. "In which case," rejoined Cosmo, "it maun be the same. Ken ye onything aboot it?" "Ay; an' sae du ye, or ye hae less sense nor I wad hae mintit o' a Warlock. That stick's no a stick like ither sticks, an' I wuss I was nearer hame."
Kirsty's nostrils began to quiver, and her lip rose in a curve of scorn. 'A bonnie wife ye wud hae, Francie Gordon, wha, kennin her father duin ilk mortal thing for the love o' his auld maister and comrade, tuik the fine chance to mak her ain o' 't, and haud her grip o' the callan til hersel! Think ye aither o' the auld men ever mintit at sic a thing as fatherin baith?
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