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We were tauld the loon threw himsell into the Thames in a fit of desperation. There's enow of them behind there was mair tint on Flodden-edge." "You have been told a budget of lies, so far as I am concerned, Sir Mungo," said Nigel, speaking loud and sternly. "Vera likely vera likely," said the unabashed and undismayed Sir Mungo; "naething but lies are current in the circle.
When they were about finally to part, the good farmer held Brown long by the hand, and at length said, 'Captain, the woo's sae weel up the year that it's paid a' the rent, and we have naething to do wi' the rest o' the siller when Ailie has had her new gown, and the bairns their bits o' duds.
But the Moderates are rinnin' mad a'thegither amang us: signing our auld Confession, just that they may get intil the kirk to preach against it; paring the New Testament doun to the vera standard o' heathen Plawto; and sinking ae doctrine after anither, till they leave ahint naething but deism that might scunner an infidel.
"Dear, your honour," answered Ratcliffe, "there's muckle difference between lying in prison under sentence of death, and staying there of ane's ain proper accord, when it would have cost a man naething to get up and rin awa what was to hinder me from stepping out quietly, when the rabble walked awa wi' Jock Porteous yestreen? and does your honour really think I staid on purpose to be hanged?"
'As Peter Peebles of the great plea of Poor Peter Peebles against Plainstanes, ET PER CONTRA if I am laird of naething else, I am ay a DOMINUS LITIS. 'It's but a poor lairdship, I doubt, said Joshua. 'Pray, Mr. Peebles, said Nanty, interrupting the conversation abruptly, 'were not you once a burgess of Edinburgh? 'WAS I a burgess! said Peter indignantly, 'and AM I not a burgess even now?
"I fear naething, sir," replied McPherson, gravely. "I mean, what danger threatens us?" "None that I ken o'; but we're makin' the land, an' it behooves us to ca' canny." It may be well to remark here that the skipper, having voyaged much on all parts of the Scottish coast, had adopted and mixed up with his own peculiar English several phrases and words in use among the lowland Scots.
It's giein ye sair een." "There's naething the maitter wi' my een," said Annie gently. "Dinna answer back. Sit doon," returned Mrs Bruce, leading her into the kitchen. Annie cared very little for her hair, and well enough remembered that Mrs Forbes had said it made a fright of her; so it was with no great reluctance that she submitted to the operation. Mrs Bruce chopped it short off all round.
'Bless me, Miss Naper! said Robert, 'what hae I dune to set ye at me that gait? Faith, I dinna ken what ye mean. 'Nae mair do I, laddie. I hae naething against ye whatever. Only ye see auld fowk luiks aheid, an' wad fain be as sure o' what's to come as o' what's gane. 'Ye maun bide for that, I doobt, said Robert. 'Laddie, retorted Miss Napier, 'ye hae mair sense nor ye hae ony richt till.
It's a fine thing to hae patience. 'Ye come ilka day, Kirsty: what for sudna he come ilka nicht? 'He has reasons, Steenie. He kens best. 'Ay, he kens best. I ken naething but him and you, Kirsty! Kirsty said no more. Her heart was too full. Steenie stood still, and throwing back his head, stared for some moments up into the great heavens over him.
"Ye see, I stand well in with my colonel, Count Drummond-Melfort; and, what's mair to the purpose, I have a cousin of mine lieutenant-colonel in a regiment of the Scots-Dutch. Naething could be mair proper than what I would get a leave to see Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart of Halkett's.
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