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Heedless of him, she continued to rock herself to and fro, crooning in her distress: 'Oh! I wish I were dead!... I wish I could die! 'Wish ye could die? he repeated. 'Why, whatever can't be that's troublin' ye like this? There, there, lassie, give ower: it 'ull all coom right, whatever it be 'No, no, she wailed. 'I wish I could die!... I wish I could die!
For auld Jean, wham I min' a weel faured wuman, though doobtless no sae bonny as whan he broucht her wi' 'im a yoong lass maybe to gar her haud her tongue auld Jean said as I say. But that was lang efter the thing was ower auld to be ta'en ony notice o' mair.
"I dinna ken exactly, but I think it's life," he answered with new-born passion, "and eternal life at that. I canna tell it an' I canna thole it till I do tell it. I maunna mak' ower free wi' God; but it's my soul, minister, it's my soul, an' I'm a new creature.
They are feared for this, and they are scrupulous about that, and they arena free to tell a lie, though it may be for the benefit of the city; and they dinna like to be out at irregular hours, and in a dark cauld night, and they like a clout ower the crown far waur; and sae between the fear o' God, and the fear o' man, and the fear o' getting a sair throat, or sair banes, there's a dozen o' our city-folk, baith waiters, and officers, and constables, that can find out naething but a wee bit skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk treasurer.
Her Majesty knows you have been put to great expense, and she wishes to make it up to you." "I am sure she is even ower gude," said Jeanie, "and it glads me muckle that I can pay back Dumbiedikes his siller, without distressing my father, honest man." "Dumbiedikes!
He was larger hearted, and therefore larger minded, than his people. In the course of their conversation, Miss Forsyth recounted, with some humour, her visitor's prowess on behalf of the laird much to honest Mr Bigg's delight. "What ither cud I du?" said Miss Horn apologetically. "But I doobt I strack ower sair.
But the change was not a'thegether sae great as they feared, and other folk thought for. The Whigs made an unco crawing what they wad do with their auld enemies, and in special wi' Sir Robert Redgauntlet. But there were ower mony great folks dipped in the same doings, to mak a spick and span new warld.
Maclure's information confirmed Morton in these impressions. "In the grey of the morning," she said, "my little Peggy sail show ye the gate to him before the sodgers are up. But ye maun let his hour of danger, as he ca's it, be ower, afore ye venture on him in his place of refuge. Peggy will tell ye when to venture in.
"What's comin' ower thee, my lad, that thou looks so, and talks so?" "What's coming over me, mother? Shall I tell thee? It's Death that's coming over me; that's what it is, mother Death!" "Dunnet say that, Joey." The old woman threw her apron over her head and sobbed. Garth looked at her, with never a tear in his wide eyes.
It's no for the likes o' me to flee i' your face but jist say a fair word for the livin' ower the deid, ye ken." "Na, na. It's fair words maks foul wark; and the wrath o' the Almichty maun purge this toon or a' be dune. The stone-mason generally spoke of the Almighty as if he were in a state of restrained indignation at the wrongs he endured from his children.
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