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"Od, ye're sure he'll be in braw time." "But he hasna ta'en the barrow wi' him, an' hoo is Jamie's luggage to be brocht up withoot a barrow?" "Barrow! He took the barrow to the saw-mill an hour syne to pick it up at Rob Angus's on the wy." Several times Jess was sure she saw the cart in the distance, and implored us to be off.
"No, Bunting, I fear not," said Walter, spurring through the gates of the yard; "Good day." "Augh, then," cried the Corporal, hobbling breathlessly after him, "if so be as I shan't see your honour agin, at which I am extramely consarned, will your honour recollect your promise, touching the 'tato ground? The steward, Master Bailey, 'od rot him, has clean forgot it augh!"
The child, not being a son, does not know his father. He may know he is what is called a father; what the word means he does not know. How then should he understand when the father comes to deliver him from his paltry self, and give him life indeed! She tried to pray. She said, "Oh G od! forgive me, and make me good. I want to be good!" Then she rose.
Od, ye work as if ye had been bred to pick and shule ye could win your round half-crown ilka day. Tak care o' your taes wi' that stane!" giving a kick to a large one which the adept had heaved out with difficulty, and which Edie pushed back again to the great annoyance of his associate's shins.
Her appearance one day was so attractive that he looked at her critically. "I happened to have the ribbon by me, so I made it up," she faltered, thinking him perhaps dissatisfied with some rather bright trimming she had donned for the first time. "Ay of course to be sure," he replied in his leonine way. "Do as you like or rather as your mother advises ye. 'Od send I've nothing to say to't!"
They were loading each of these in their turn, and one or two had already put off to seaward. 'This speaks for itself, said Bertram; 'but I fear something worse has happened. Do you perceive a strong smell of smoke, or is it my fancy? 'Fancy? answered Dinmont, 'there's a reek like a killogie. Od, if they burn the custom-house it will catch here, and we'll lunt like a tar-barrel a' thegither.
Dinmont might there give directions about his faithful horse, which would probably be safe at the stables where he had left him. 'Aweel, aweel, e'en sae be it for Dandie. Od, if we were ance out o' this trindling kist o' a thing, I am thinking they wad find it hard wark to gar us gang ony gate but where we liked oursells.
Some have called it 'od' an 'imponderable fluid' as you know; you and others wish to call it 'electricity. I prefer to call it 'the spirit of life, a name simple, dignified, and expressive!" "It has the disadvantage of being poetic," said Dr Rippon, with grave irony; "and doctors don't like poetry mixed up with their science."
So, I think, we had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature, Major Weir, and say naething about your dream in the wood of Pitmurkie. 'Od, but for as queer as it is, it's a' the voucher I have for my rent, said my gudesire, who was afraid, it may be, of losing the benefit of Sir Robert's discharge.
"Wast a ship-letter?" asked the Fornerina. "In troth wast." "It wad be frae the lieutenant then," replied the mistress of the rolls, somewhat disappointed "I never thought he wad hae lookit ower his shouther after her." "Od, here's another," quoth Mrs. Mailsetter. "A ship-letter post-mark, Sunderland." All rushed to seize it. "Na, na, leddies," said Mrs.
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