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I mind him summoning a grown man from the choir aince, and mak' him own his fault. Hey! He wer a graund priest, an' nae mistak' wer Mr. McGillivray!" On stormy days, when it was difficult for the aged pastor to wade through the deep snow down to the chapel, Mass was said in his own house. The people crowded in at the door of his little living-room, and would fill the kitchen.
We didna care sae muckle for the wife, Eppie Lownie, for she managed the farm, an' she was fell hard an' terrible reserved we thocht, no even likin' ony body to get friendly wi' the mester, as we called Sam'l. Ay, we made a richt mistak."
"It was a' a mistak' an' naebody is to blame. We are just driven alang, an' we canna help oorsel's it's awfu' to hae sic feelin's an' an' no' hae any poo'er to guide them richt it's ay the things we want maist that we dinna get. Kiss me, Rob kiss me, as you kissed me yon nicht on the muir. Haud me like you an' I think I can gang content. Oh, Rob, ay liket you it was you I wanted a' the time!"
'Then there's summat wrang with th' decrees, that's all, Amos. There's been a mistak' somewhere. 'Hooist, lad! hooist! durnd talk like that. Woe to th' mon that strives wi' his Maker. 'If thi Maker's th' mon thaa maks Him aat to be, I'm noan partic'lar abaat oather His woes or His blessin's. 'No more am I, cried Dan, as he stood up and stretched himself with a yawn.
"Ye maunna tak Gibbie for a young cowt, Maister Sclater, an' think to brak him in," she said, after a thoughtful pause, "or ye'll hae to learn yer mistak. There's no eneuch o' himsel' in him for ye to get a grip o' 'm by that han'le. He aye kens what he wad hae, an' he'll aye get it, as sure's it'll aye be richt. As anent Donal, Donal's my ain, an' I s' say naething.
He was an unconscious follower of the theology of the Reverend John Jasper, of Richmond, Virginia, and rejected the Copernican theory of the universe as inconsistent with the history of Joshua. "Gin the sun doesna muve," said he, "what for wad Joshua be tellin' him to stond steel? 'A wad suner beleeve there was a mistak' in the veesible heevens than ae fault in the Guid Buik."
As sune 's it comes to ony fechtin', up he gets, an' gangs stridin' aboot the flure; an' whiles he maks a claucht at 's claymore; an' faith! ance he maist cawed aff my heid wi' 't, for he had made a mistak aboot whaur I was sittin'." "What's a claymore?" "A muckle heelan' braidswoord, my leddy. Clay frae gladius verra likly; an' more 's the Gaelic for great: claymore, great sword.
Na, na, it's no that hinders them frae pardoning the bit lassie. But here is the pinch of the plea. The king and queen are sae ill pleased wi' that mistak about Porteous, that deil a kindly Scot will they pardon again, either by reprieve or remission, if the haill town o' Edinburgh should be a' hanged on ae tow."
When you're wantin' a favour, a little saft soap altho' it's only scraipins is sometimes a very handy thing to hae; an' if you dinna get what you want, you can pet on the black lead syne. There's a fell lot o' that kind o' thing gaen on, an' nae mistak'. There's Beylie Thingymabob, for instance but, of coorse, that's no' the point "
"Maybe we dinna look at thae things richt," she again resumed. "We we mak' mistak's and canna help oorsel's; but God dinna mean it as as a mistak'. It's a' because we think it is. Everything's richt but we mak' them wrang in the way we look at them. It wad hae been a' richt in oor mind, if I had been married afore afore it happened but because we werena married it was wrang.
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