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She is a vera strict pairson; the deil himsel' wouldna be suspected o' wrang-doing, if she were watching him." "Poor Maggie! David, it does seem a hard lookout for her; especially when you will be so happy with your books, and I am going on a two years' pleasure trip to America."
Don't you see it rising everywhere from the woods?" "The sylvan gods are none of my clan," remarked Adam, shifting his position impatiently, "and it's little I know of them. There's a graat dail of ignorance consailed aboot my pairson." Louis Satanette laughed with enjoyment: "Well, au revoir. I will put up my sail when I turn the points.
He had one of those stubborn, rough-hewn faces that even white hair can not soften any more than hoar-frost can the outline of a granite crag. "What's ye're wull?" he drawled out, in the rugged Aberdeen Doric. "I wish to see Mr. Bruce." "No sic a pairson here," was the reply, accompanied by a vigorous effort to close the door.
At last in despair but quite certain that the Vicar at any rate was knocked out he gave up, exclaiming, "'E med 'ave it, 'e med 'ave it"; and the hammer fell. Horribly disgusted the malcontent fired a parting shot as he reached the door: "If I'd a-knowed the pairson was a goin' to 'ave it, I'd a made 'im pay a pretty penny more nor that."
"When it's no' convenient to be followed, ye send an inquisitive pairson off on anither road. But I would like to see if he has got rid o' the ither fellow." They waited some minutes, but nobody else appeared, and Foster surmised that the first man knew the ground and the other did not.
He earns a lot of money. He can beat you even at your own game." Mr. Mactavish James tee-heed, but did not like it, for she was looking round the room as if it were a hated prison and all that was done in it contemptible; and these things were his life. "Well, you know best. And what's this paragon like? I've not seen the fellow." "He's a lovely pairson," she said sullenly.
There was a burly lad who wore trousers much too large for him, and who was known as Peer Pairson, a contraction presumably for Peter Paterson. After him came a lean tall boy who answered to the name of Napoleon. There was a midget of a child, desperately sooty in the face either from battle or from fire-tending, who was presented as Wee Jaikie.
And then, while Macbeth had his faults, he was a verra accomplished pairson, and I respect and like him for that. He did a bit o' murdering, but that was largely because of his wife. I sympathize wi' any man that takes his wife's advice, and is guided by it. I've done that, ever since I was married.
It always reminded her of her pore, dear brother what was drownded las' summer, an' a sick pairson made a quare lot o' extra work, even when it was considered in the wages. She'd be lavin' that day week, her month bein' up then." Happily, the threatening of illness was a false alarm, but Katy is going.
This is the vicar's wife." "Is she our sort of pairson?" asked Ellen doubtfully. "For the purpose of social intercourse we pretend that she is," answered Marion without enthusiasm. They met her on the plank bridge that crossed the stream by which the osier beds were nourished, and Ellen liked her before they had come within hailing distance because she was such a little nosegay of an old lady.
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