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An I had kend, I wad hae gien him my ain bed, and sleepit in the byre or he had gane up by; but it canna be helpit now. The neist thing's to get him cannily awa the morn, and I judge he'll be in nae hurry to come back again." "My puir maister!" said Cuddie; "and maun I no speak to him, then?" "For your life, no," said Jenny.
Ye see, we were nae sooner chased out o' the doors o' Milnwood, and your uncle and the housekeeper banging them to and barring them ahint us, as if we had had the plague on our bodies, that I says to my mother, What are we to do neist? for every hole and bore in the country will be steekit against us, now that ye hae affronted my auld leddy, and gar't the troopers tak up young Milnwood.
But it's a later story, the last." "It's a pity there's no a dizzen or twa o' them in Awbrahawm's boasom. What did they till him neist?" Here Andrew Constable dropped in, and Chapman turned towards him with the question: "Did ye hear, Mr Constable, what the loons did to Robert Bruce the nicht afore last?" "No. What was that? They hae a spite at puir Rob, I believe."
Kirsty relaxed her hold. 'What are you gaein to du wi' me? sobbed Phemy. 'I'm takin ye to the best place I ken hame to my mother, answered Kirsty, striding on for home-heaven as straight as she could go. 'I winna gang! cried Phemy, whose Scotch had returned with her tears. 'Ye are gaein, returned Kirsty dryly; at least I'm takin ye, and that's neist best. 'What for?
"I dinna think muckle o' that, sir," said Phemy. "It micht be the mark o' the sole o' his fut, though," returned the laird. Luik sharp, Phemy; there may come anither at the neist stride anither fut mark. Luik ye that gait an' I'll luik this. What for willna he come oot? The lift maun be fu' o' 'im, an' I 'm hungert for a sicht o' 'im. Gien ye see ony thing, Phemy, cry oot."
I wish we may get the light keepit in neist, wi' this fearsome wind but there's a blink o' moonlight at times." Thus saying, old Edie, closely accompanied by the adept, led the way towards the ruins, but presently made a full halt in front of them. "Ye're a learned man, Mr.
"The Laird wad ha'e had ye come wi' yon lanky loon wi' the glass of his e'e," went on Sam: "he was bound frae Carlisle to London this neist month. But Mrs Kezia, she wan him o'er to send me for ye. An' I was for to say that gin the minister wad like Miss Flora to gang wi' ye, I micht care ye baith, or onie ither young damsel wha's freens wad like to ha'e her sent soothwards."
If ye gat not settlement this day, why then ye gat it the neist, with never a word of drawback nor craving for batement." Sholto told them briefly concerning the tragedy of Edinburgh. He had no will for any waste of words, and as briefly thereafter of the loss of the little maid and her companion. The Bailie of Dumfries lifted up his hands in consternation. "'Tis surely a plot o' thae Avondales.
"I feel all the unkindness of it, Ailie, but it must be so; and that was the reason that I attempted to conceal myself from you, as I suspected you would not let me part from you so easily." "But whar are ye gaun, then?" said Ailie, once more. "Saw e'er mortal een the like o' you, just to come ae moment, and flee awa like an arrow out of a bow the neist?"
An' fowk maun ait an' live nane the less 'at the maitter they come upo' be deith; an' sae the nicht afore the yerdin', their denner the neist day whan they cam back frae the grave, had to be foreordeent. "It was i' the spring-time o' the year, unco late i' thae pairts.
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