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If ye had but used the een God gave ye, ye would hae learned the wickedness o' that fause, saut, cauld, bullering creature, and of a' that's in it by the Lord's permission: labsters an' partans, an' sic-like, howking in the deid; muckle, gutsy, blawing whales; an' fish the hale clan o' them cauld-wamed, blind-ee'd uncanny ferlies. Oh, sirs," he cried, "the horror the horror o' the sea!"
If ye had but used the een God gave ye, ye would hae learned the wickedness o' that fause, saut, cauld, bullering creature, and of a' that's in it by the Lord's permission: labsters an' partans, an' sic like, howking in the deid; muckle, gutsy, blawing whales; an' fish the hale clan o' them cauld-wamed, blind-eed uncanny ferlies. O, sirs, he cried, 'the horror the horror o' the sea!
"Canny, ye silly tawpie! think ye ae auld wife's less canny than anither? unless it be Alison Breck I really couldna in conscience swear for her; I have kent the boxes she set fill'd wi' partans, when" "Whisht, whisht, Maggie," whispered Jenny "your gudemither's gaun to speak again."
They say the water bude till ha' howkit them ance upon a time, an' they maun hae been fu' o' partans, an' lobsters, an' their frien's an' neebours; but they're heigh an' dreigh noo, as the fule said o' his minister, an' naething intill them but foumarts, an' otters, an' sic like." "Well, well, my lad, we'll see," said his lordship kindly and turning once more, he resumed his walk.
"Canny, ye silly tawpie! think ye ae auld wife's less canny than anither? unless it be Alison Breck I really couldna in conscience swear for her; I have kent the boxes she set fill'd wi' partans, when" "Whisht, whisht, Maggie," whispered Jenny "your gudemither's gaun to speak again."
Indeed he had not heartily set about searching for one; in part because, unconsciously to himself he was buoyed up by the hope he read so clear in the face of his more trusting wife that Malcolm would come to deliver them. His plan was to leave her and his children with certain friends at Port Gordon; he would not hear of going to the Partans to bring them into trouble.
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