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Updated: June 20, 2025
Gibbie Glossin! that I have carried in my creels a hundred times, for his mother wasna muckle better than mysell he to presume to buy the barony of Ellangowan! Gude be wi' us; it is an awfu' warld! I wished him ill; but no sic a downfa' as a' that neither.
I hae garr'd him trow mony a queer tale mysell, gude forgie me. But wi' a' that, he has unco little sympathy wi' ither folks; and he's snell and dure eneugh in casting up their nonsense to them, as if he had nane o' his ain.
To be sure he did gie an awesome glance up at the auld castle and there was some spae-work gaed on I aye heard that; but as for his vanishing, I held the stirrup mysell when he gaed away, and he gied me a round half-crown he was riding on a haick they ca'd Souple Sam it belanged to the George at Dumfries it was a blood-bay beast, very ill o' the spavin I hae seen the beast baith before and since."
As they rode past the ruined cottages at Derncleugh, Dinmont said, 'I'm sure when ye come to your ain, Captain, ye'll no forget to bigg a bit cot-house there? Deil be in me but I wad do't mysell, an it werena in better hands. I wadna like to live in't, though, after what she said. Od, I wad put in auld Elspeth, the bedral's widow; the like o' them's used wi' graves and ghaists and thae things.
"Do so, do so, for Heaven's sake!" said Sir Arthur eagerly. I question an I could hae done it mysell, at this hoar and in this weather, in the youngest and yaldest of my strength But to venture up again it's a mere and a clear tempting o' Providence,"
D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell maun be presidents and king's advocates, nae doubt, and wha but they? Whereas, were favour equally distribute, as in the days of the wight Wallace"
"True ay your horses yes I will call the grooms"; and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rang again: "John William Saunders! The lads are gane out, or sleeping," he observed, after pausing for an answer, which he knew that he had no human chance of receiving. "A' gaes wrang when the Master's out-bye; but I'll take care o' your cattle mysell."
And so I stood between your lordship and that temptation, which might have been worse than the ordinary, or the playhouse either; since you wot well what Solomon, King of the Jews, sayeth of the strange woman for, said I to mysell, we have taken to dicing already, and if we take to drabbing next, the Lord kens what we may land in!"
"Ye were going to say Morris," said Rob Roy coolly, for he was too much accustomed to deeds of violence for the agitation he had at first expressed to be of long continuance. "I used to laugh heartily at that reik; but I'll hardly hae the heart to do't again, since the ill-far'd accident at the Loch. Na, na his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.
Archibald," answered the Captain of Knockdunder, "wad ye hae them ring the bell before I am ready to gang to kirk? I wad gar the bedral eat the bell-rope, if he took ony sic freedom. But if ye want to hear the bell, I will just show mysell on the knowe-head, and it will begin jowing forthwith."
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