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'It's none o' my doing, said Philip; 'there's business to be done, and John Foster says I'm to do it; and I'm to start to-morrow. 'I'll not turn thee out wi'out thy ruffled shirt, if I sit up a' neet, said Alice, resolutely. 'Niver fret thyself, mother, about t' shirt, said Philip. 'If I need a shirt, London's not what I take it for if I can't buy mysel' one ready-made.
And you standing there like a straw bogle and rinning to fetch your ain sword like a doggie with a pocket-napkin! David, this man Duncansby must be something altogether by-ordinar! He maun be extraordinar skilly. If I had the time, I would gang straight back and try a turn at him mysel'. The man must be a provost." "You silly fellow," said I, "you forget it was just me."
'An' though I've come back to Glesca, I'm no' seeking onything frae ony o' ye; I can fend for mysel'. Walter remained silent for a little. The subject was one of extreme delicacy, and he did not know how to pursue it. He feared that all was not with his sister as it should be, but he feared the result of further questions. 'What's the guid o' me gaun hame wi' you the nicht?
But it iss the life that I am fit for, and I hef my own time and my thoughts to mysel', and that is a ferry goot thing; and then, sir, I haf found the Pearl of Great Price, and I think upon that day and night."
"What I expec, it wad be ill to say; but what I dinna expec' is to be traitit like a vaggabon. Come, I'll gie ye a guid hoor's wark for a place to wash mysel', an' put on a clean sark." "Hae ye the sark?" "I HAE't here i' my bag." "An' what du ye want to put on a clean sark for? What'll ye du whan ye hae't on?" "Gie ye anither hoor's wark for the heel o' a loaf an' a drink o' watter."
"I won'er he didna win up wi' ye than, Grizzie!" suggested Cosmo. "Guid kens hoo he didna; I won'er mysel'. But I trow I ran; an' I tak ye to witness I garred ye steik the door." "But they say," objected Cosmo, who could not fail to perceive from what Aggie said that there was something going on which it behooved him to know, "that the kelpie wons aye by some watter side."
"Halcro, my lad," said he, "I am real glad to see you. Thank the Lord ye're safe!" "I might say the same to you, captain," said I. "How were ye rescued, and where are Peter and Jerry?" "Peter and Jerry are at Oliver Gray's," he answered. "Come, let us join them. As for mysel', why, there's nothing much to tell. I was picked up by the boat ten minutes after I dropped owerboard.
But, above all, the golden box, set with all sorts of flaming precious stones, with its splendid colors and blazing fires dazzled her sight and dazed her mind. "I will keep this for mysel'," she said, as she put it in the bosom of her dress "I will, I will, I WILL! He shall na hae this again. I'll tell him it was lost or sto'en."
Man, Drumsheugh, ye poverty-stricken cratur, I've naethin' in this world but a handfu' o' books and a ten-pund note for my funeral, and yet, if it wasna I have all my brither's bairns tae keep, I wud pay every penny mysel'. But I'll no see Geordie sent to the plough, tho' I gang frae door to door.
And sae the lang and short o' it is, he talked over the poleecemen, sae that instead of pursuing their investigations in the castle, they went off with me laird to have warrants out for the apprehension of the puir negro folk, whilk I believe to be as innocent of theft as I mysel' or auld Cuthbert. And noo, me leddy, I hae telled ye a', thinking till mesel' that ye ought to ken it.
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