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"Jenny," they said, "was a thrifty lassie, and wad mak a guid wife. She kenned a' about the management o' the kye, and she wad aye hae her mither at hand to apply to in ony strait." Another party differed from them entirely, both as to the conclusiveness of the evidence, and the advantages to be derived from the marriage. "The buyin o' the gown," they maintained, "was naething.
Perhaps if it came to the real fight, I should prove stronger than you, just because I have that help. Dear Liz, it is dreadful, if it is true, to live as you do. Are you not afraid? 'I fear naething, except gaun into consumption, an' haein' naebody to look after me, responded Liz. 'If it cam' to that, I'd tak' something to pit an end to mysel'. My mind's made up on that lang syne.
For there is a sense in whilk I may be nearly almost said to be his correspondent. The fact is, we are employed thegether in a business affair, and I think it's like to turn out a dear affair for Sandie Sprott. The man's as guid's my pairtner, and I give ye my mere word I ken naething by where he is.
But mind that, while ye wad be comfortable wi' your cronies, my bairn wad be frettin' her lane; and though she might say naething when ye cam hame, that wadna be the way to wear her love round your neck like a chain of gold; but, night after night, it wad break away link by link, till the whole was lost; and if ye didna hate, ye wad soon find ye were disagreeable to each other.
"Ay, to bring popish medals in till their very library from that schismatic woman in the north, the Duchess of Gordon."* "Weel, weel, but somebody ye maun hae What think ye o' Kittlepunt?" "He's an Arminian." "Woodsetter?" "He's, I doubt, a Cocceian." "Auld Whilliewhaw?" "He's ony thing ye like." "Young Naemmo?" "He's naething at a'."
I thought ye had been dead." "Never fash yoursell wi' me," said Dougal, "but look to yoursell; and see ye tak' naething frae onybody here, neither meat, drink, or siller, except the receipt that is your ain."
"A thousand thanks, Doctor; but I fear a broken arm " "There's naething in the whiskey to prevent the proper formation of callus." "By the rock of Cashel, it never made any one callous," said O'Shaughnessy, mistaking the import of the phrase. "Ye are nae drinking frae the flask?" said the doctor, turning in some agitation towards Quill. "Devil a bit, my darling.
"Aweel, aweel," said Hobbie, mounting his horse, "it serves naething to strive wi' cripples, they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell ye ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes."
"I have papers signed by my father, the late marquis, and sealed and witnessed by well-known gentlemen of the neighborhood." "Whaur are they?" said Girnel, holding out his hand. "I don't carry such valuable things about me," answered Malcolm. "But if you go with the rest you shall see them afterward." "I'll du naething i' the dark," persisted Girnel. "Whan I see the peppers I'll ken what to du."
"An' what was 't she was efter, the jaud?" cried Miss Horn, without any attempt to conceal her growing interest. "She made naething o' 't, whatever it was; for doon the street cam the schuilmaister, an' chappit at the door, an gaed in an' waitit till ye came hame." "Weel!" said Miss Horn. But Mrs Mellis held her peace. "Weel!!?" repeated Miss Horn.
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