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'It behoved to be, she said, 'he wad get it back again; naebody wad be sae gripple as to tak his gear after they had gi'en him a pardon: and for that Inch-Grabbit, I could whiles wish mysell a witch for his sake, if I werena feared the Enemy wad tak me at my word. Waverley then gave her some money, and promised that her fidelity should be rewarded.
The Bailie whispered me, that "he behoved to be a man of some consequence, for that naebody but their Duinhe'wassels wore the trews they were ill to weave exactly to their Highland pleasure." The other mountaineer was a very tall, strong man, with a quantity of reddish hair, freckled face, high cheek-bones, and long chin a sort of caricature of the national features of Scotland.
"I'm like a field officer that has naebody but blind men for scouts and eclaireurs; and what would he ken? But it sticks in my mind that ye'll have made some kind of bauchle; and if I was you I would have a try at her again." "Would ye so, man Alan?" said I. "I would e'en't," says he.
Eh, sirs! the comely young lord is turned as auld and frail as I am: it's muckle that sorrow and heartbreak, and crossing of true love, will do wi' young blood. But suldna his mither hae lookit to that hersell? we were but to do her bidding, ye ken. I am sure there's naebody can blame me he wasna my son, and she was my mistress.
"And how did you escape?" said Jeanie, the fates of this man, at first so odious to her, having acquired a sudden interest in her eyes from their correspondence with those of her sister. "How did I escape?" said Ratcliffe, with a knowing wink, "I tell ye I 'scapit in a way that naebody will escape from this Tolbooth while I keep the keys."
"Gien there had been naebody nearer hame to help ye oot o' waur straits, it's waur straits ye wad be in. An' it's waur ye'll be in yet, gien that man gets his wull o' ye!" "He's a fine, honest chiel'! An' for waur straits, Grizzie are na ye at the verra last wi' yer meal?" As he spoke he turned, and, in bodily reference to fact, went to the chest into which he had looked but a few minutes before.
You may be another phantom only clearer. 'Ye speik to me as gin ye thocht me somebody. 'So does the man to his phantoms, and you call him mad. It is but a yielding to the pressure of constant suggestion. I do not know I cannot know if there is anything outside of me. 'But gin there warna, there wad be naebody for ye to love, Mr. Ericson. 'Of course not. 'Nor naebody to love you, Mr. Ericson.
Well just put him into decent English, and see that naebody else shall laugh at him. So they trimmed the local bard, and made him sober, and even mildly sweet; and when, with their joint amendments, they sent the poem home, the bard refused to be edited, declined the parcel, and took his trade elsewhere.
"Well, well, sir," said the captain, "ye'll get little good by swearing." "Ay?" said Alan; "and faith, I'll have a talk with them mysel'! Unless there's naebody speaks English in that town, I have a bonny tale for them. Fifteen tarry sailors upon the one side, and a man and a halfling boy upon the other! O, man, it's peetiful!" Hoseason flushed red. "No," continued Alan, "that'll no do.
Robert hesitated for a moment whether to fly or speak. He was a Lowland country boy, and therefore rude of speech, but he was three parts a Celt, and those who know the address of the Irish or of the Highlanders, know how much that involves as to manners and bearing. He advanced the next instant and spoke. 'I beg yer pardon, mem. I thoucht naebody wad see me. I haena dune nae ill.
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