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And he turned into the quadrangle, and throu't he gaed and oot at the corner o' 't. I was close ahint him that is, I was into the quadrangle afore he was oot o' 't. And I saw the sacrist come oot at the door o' the astronomical tooer jist afore the Hielanman turned the neuk o' 't.
It is a lovely neuk, this Braehead, preserved almost as it was two hundred years ago. "Lot and his wife," mentioned by Maidie, two quaintly cropped yew-trees, still thrive; the burn runs as it did in her time, and sings the same quiet tune, as much the same and as different as Now and Then.
'Plenty more for ye when we sit i' the ingle neuk together the night, he said. Meg, enchanted at this prospect, said no more, but looked about her as they rode up the Slitrig water.
Mr Cupples flew at him, and would have knocked the bottle after the glass, had not Alec held it high above his reach, exclaiming, "Toots, man! I'm gaein' to pit it intil its ain neuk. Gang ye to yer bed, and lippen to me." "Ye gie me yer word, ye winna pit it to yer mou'?" "I do," answered Alec.
What should the sign be? Rotha walked to the neuk window and stood to think, her hand on the wheel and her eyes towards the south. What, then, should the sign be? It was by no means easy to hit on a sign that would show him at a glance that her mind was made up; that, however she may have wavered in her purpose yesterday, her resolve was fixed to-day.
Most of them were now ready, but a good many men were still at work. The brown hillocks lay all about the church-yard the mole-heaps of burrowing Death. The stranger looked around him. His face grew critical. He stepped a little hither and thither. At length he turned to me and said "I wadna like to be greedy; but gin ye wad lat her lie next the kirk there i' that neuk, I wad tak' it kindly.
Bide-a-Wee Cottage, Pettybaw, East Neuk o' Fife. To my trusty fieres, Mony's the time I hae ettled to send ye a screed, but there was aye something that cam' i' the gait. It wisna that I couldna be fashed, for aften hae I thocht o' ye and my hairt has been wi' ye mony's the day.
I was very weary, my head was splitting with the foul air of the place, and I would fain have got me to sleep. Some dirty straw had been laid round the walls of the room for the prisoners to lie on, and I found a neuk close by the minister's side.
But the sea's never twa days the same. Even lauchin' she never lauchs twise wi' the same face, an' whan she sulks, she has a hunner w'ys o' sulkin'." "And how would you get a carriage up here?" said the marquis. "Fine that, my lord. There's a ro'd up as far's yon neuk.
"Are you then Glasgow-born, Jamie?" "Me! Glasgow-born! What are you thinking of? I am from the auld East Neuk; and I am glad and proud of being a Fifer. All my common sense comes from Fife. There is none loves the 'Kingdom' more than I, Jamie Logan. We are all Fife together. I thought you knew it."
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