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And sae he maun grin' awa', and whan Deith comes, he'll say, as Andrew Wylie did�-'Weel run, little wheelie! and tak' him awa' wi' him some gait or ither, whaur, maybe, he may mak' choice o' his ain machine for the neist trial." "That's some cauld doctrine, Mr Cupples," Alec would say.
"There's no muckle to hinder us, an that were a'," answered Cuddie; "but what were we to do neist?" "We'll take the Castle," cried the other; "here are five or six o' us, and a' the sodgers are engaged at the gate."
His nervous system would speedily recover its healthy operations. But Cupples�-from whose veins alcohol had expelled the blood, whose skull was a Circean cup of hurtful spells�-would not delirium follow for him? Suddenly Alec laid his hand on the bottle. Mr Cupples trembled. Was he going to break his vow already? "Wadna't be better to fling this into the neist yard, Mr Cupples?" said Alec.
I shall drop right down into it if I do!" she faltered, beginning to sob. "Nae fear o' that! There! ye canna fa' noo, for Blue Peter has the other en', and Peter's as strong 's twa pownies. I'm gaein to tak aff yer shune neist." So saying, he lowered himself a little through the breach, holding on by the broken wall with one hand, while he gently removed her sandal shoes with the other.
They may weel affoord se'enteen hunner linen to set it aff wi' 'at has naething but coaton inside the breeks o' them. 'But Dr. Wagstaff says it's healthier, interposed Peddie. 'I'll wag a staff till him. De'il a bit o' 't 's healthier! an' that he kens. It's nae sae healthy, an' sae it mak's him mair wark wi' 's poothers an' his drauchts, an' ither stinkin' stuff. Healthier! What neist?
Maybe, gin ye war comin' oor gait, the morn, or the neist day, to see Maister Ericson, ye wad tie up my airm, for it gangs wallopin' aboot, an' that canna be guid for the stickin' o' 't thegither again. 'My poor boy! you don't think I'm going to leave you here, do you? said the doctor, proceeding to open the carriage-door. 'But whaur's the hamper? said Shargar, looking about him in dismay.
"Clashes and clavers!" cries Sam, turning on her. "Helen Raeburn, ye're just daft! Is the Lord no sae strang o' Friday as ither days? What will fules say neist?" "Atweel, ye may lauch, Sam, an' ye will," answered Helen: "but I tell ye, I ne'er brake my collar-bone of a journey but ance, and that was when I'd set forth of a Friday."
I wad fain hae a try. Ye ken a' aboot it wi' that grannie o' yours: hoo's a body to begin? 'By giein' up the drink, man. 'Ay ay ay I reckon ye're richt. Weel, I'll think aboot it whan ance I'm throu wi' this job. That'll be neist ook, or thereabouts, or aiblins twa days efter. I'll hae some leiser than.
The miller made Thomas drink a glass of whisky and get into his bed. "I saw ye, Thamas, upo' yer knees," said he; "but I dauredna come near ye. Put in a word for me, neist time, man." Thomas made him no reply. Down the Glamour and down the Wan-Water, for the united streams went by the latter name, the terrible current bore them.
Ye'll no catch ane o' the servants gauging up that stair, puir frightened heathens that they are, for fear of bogles and brownies, and lang-nebbit things frae the neist warld. But Father Vaughan thinks himself a privileged person set him up and lay him down!
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