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"I could never have expected such a friendly welcome to one who is a perfect stranger to you all." "Nae altogither a stranger, whateever," returned Davie and for a moment there was ever so slight a suspicion of a twinkle in his kindly old eyes. "Ye're the new gauger we've haird sae muckle aboot, I'm thinkin'."
Hoo comes it folk can lose their self-respect sae? There's folk, I've seen them a' ma life, who put sae muckle effort into trying to get something for nowt that they ha' no time or leisure to work.
"He never telled me about anything," cried Mrs. Gourlay, with a sudden passion. "I was aye the one to be keepit in the dark to be keepit in the dark and sore hadden doon. Oh, are we left destitute, Janet and us was aye sae muckle thocht o'! And me, too, that's come of decent folk, and brought him a gey pickle bawbees am I to be on the parish in my auld age? Oh, my faither, my faither!"
Dousterdeevil, and ken muckle o' the marvellous works o' nature Now, will ye tell me ae thing? D'ye believe in ghaists and spirits that walk the earth? d'ye believe in them, ay or no?" "Now, goot Mr. Edie," whispered Dousterswivel, in an expostulatory tone of voice, "is this a times or a places for such a questions?" "Indeed is it, baith the tane and the t'other, Mr.
'Why, that will do you little good, mother. 'But 'twill do yoursell muckle, and that's what I'm thinking o'. I am not mad, although I have had eneugh to make me sae; I am not mad, nor doating, nor drunken. I know what I am asking, and I know it has been the will of God to preserve you in strange dangers, and that I shall be the instrument to set you in your father's seat again.
"That's the Auld Place, sir; and that's the New Place below it. We'll land you there if you like." "I should like it of all things. I must visit that ruin before I continue my journey." "Ay, it's a queer auld bit," said the fisherman and that highest tower is a gude landmark as far as Ramsay in Man, and the Point of Ayr there was muckle fighting about the place lang syne."
"And so I might, Jeanie," continued the girl, clinging to her sister's neck; "and I wish I had never learned ane o' them and I wish we had never come here and I wish my tongue had been blistered or I had vexed ye." "Never mind that, Effie," replied the affectionate sister; "I canna be muckle vexed wi' ony thing ye say to me but O, dinna vex our father!"
I am an auld soldier, as I said before, and I'll take muckle frae your father's son; but no a touch o' the wand while my pike-staff will haud thegither." "Well, well, I was wrong I was wrong," said M'Intyre; "here's a crown for you go your ways what's the matter now?"
the Kirk, walking hand in hand with the real noble Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state's use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes.
But I'se een be open-hearted wi' you, and tell you that this is a friend's secret, and that they suld draw me wi' wild horses, or saw me asunder, as they did the children of Ammon, sooner than I would speak a word mair about the matter, excepting this, that there was nae ill intended, but muckle gude, and that the purpose was to serve them that are worth twenty hundred o' me.
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