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"Drink, drink, drink!" cried the hag fiercely; "there's nothing like drink for the poor, for thin we fancy oursels what we wish, and," sinking her voice into a whisper, "I thinks thin that I have my foot on the billies of the rich folks, and my hands twisted about their intrails, and I hear them shriek, and thin I'm happy!"
'Tis your green-horns who fly into a passion, and use hard words. You see, Sir, there's one thing we larn afore all other things in the world to butter bread. Knowledge of others, means only the knowledge which side bread's buttered. In short, Sir, the wiser grow, the more take care of oursels.
It has been a drouth this aucht days, and the pumps is locked. Na," she said, as Gavin made a too liberal offer, "that would toom the well, and there's jimply enough for oursels. I should tell you, too, that three o' them is no Auld Lichts." "Let that make no difference," Gavin said grandly, but Jean changed his message to: "A bowlful apiece to Auld Lichts; all other denominations one cupful."
Now, atween oursels, my Lord has na the heart of a true bairn to that aged and worthy grannie of the papistry, our leddy the Virgin Mary here's her health, poor auld deaf and dumb creature she has na, I doubt, the pith to warsle wi' the blast she ance in a day had." "Haud that heretical tongue o' thine, Jamie Coom," exclaimed Dame Lugton.
We'st coom and see yo thank yo kindly, bit we'st do for oursels i' th' sleepin' way. To which Hannah gave a grim and energetic assent. When Louie had been told of their expected arrival she opened her black eyes to their very widest extent. 'Well, you'd better keep Aunt Hannah and me out of each other's way, she remarked. 'I shall let her have it, you'll see.
Requesting an explanation of the term I am told that "Bourach" is the Gaelic for "through-other," which again is the Scottish synonym for a kind of amalgam of addled and harum-scarum. A jolly tanner observes: "I'll get a compartment to oursels." The reason of the desire for this exclusive accommodation is apparent as soon as we start.
It'll be as bad a job this for them as the duck-dub, I'm thinkin." "We hadna muckle to brag o' there oursels, guidwife," interposed her husband, calmly. "See, there," said Mrs. Anderson, either not heeding, or not hearing John's remark.
It's time we're wantin', and the longer they think we're a' in the auld Tower the better for us. What news o' the polis?" He listened to Sir Archie's report with a gloomy face. "Not afore the darkenin'? They'll be ower late the polis are aye ower late. It looks as if we had the job to do oursels. What's your notion?" "God knows," said the baronet, whose eyes were on Saskia. "What's yours?"
"Drink, drink, drink!" cried the hag fiercely; "there's nothing like drink for the poor, for thin we fancy oursels what we wish, and," sinking her voice into a whisper, "I thinks thin that I have my foot on the billies of the rich folks, and my hands twisted about their intrails, and I hear them shriek, and thin I'm happy!"
He had a slouched hat on, which partly concealed his long, lantern-jawed visage, while his shaggy, uncombed hair fell to his shoulders, and gave one a feeling that it contained many an inhabitant, like that which caused Burns to write those famous lines containing the passage: "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!"
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