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But at least I ken o' ae love ploy that Mistress Lindesay is engaged in, or your birses wadna be so ready to stand on end, my bonny man. But guid luck to ye. Ye hae the mair chance o' finding the flown birdies, that ye maybes think mair o' the bonny norland quey than ye think o' the bit Gallowa' calf. From all sides the Douglases were marching upon Edinburgh.
You look very nice always, answered Gladys truthfully, and the sincere compliment pleased Liz, though she did not say so. 'Well, look, it's ten meenits past aicht. We were to meet Teen in the Trongate at the quarter. We'll need to turn back. 'And where will we go after that? inquired Gladys. 'The shops are beginning to shut. 'You'll see. We've a ploy on. I want to gie ye a treat.
On these occasions how infinitely superior the female is to the male part of the species! The ladies, in a quarter of an hour after the proposal of the ploy, appear all in readiness to start, each with her walking-shoes and parasol, with a smart reticule dangling from her wrist.
"I would have thought the duty of keeping down a ploy of that kind would have been congenial to your own folk," said Elchies, drenching his nostrils vulgarly with macabaw. Argyll smiled. "You may give us credit for willingness to take our share of the responsibility of keeping Appin in order," said he.
"Ye were going to say Morris," said Rob Roy coolly, for he was too much accustomed to deeds of violence for the agitation he had at first expressed to be of long continuance. "I used to laugh heartily at that reik; but I'll hardly hae the heart to do't again, since the ill-far'd accident at the Loch. Na, na his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.
More amusing still to one able, like Count Victor, to enter into the humour of the experience, was it to have his garrulity get the better of him in spite of the military punctilio. "The Baron was telling me aboot your exploit wi' the Loch Sloy pairty. Man! did I no' think ye had come by boat," he whispered over a tendered ale-glass. "It was jist my luck to miss sic a grand ploy.
It's something by ordinar' wi' 'm. ''Deed I dinna ken, mem. I never tuik it into my heid to gang considerin' aboot it. He'll hae some ploy o' 's ain, nae doobt. Laddies will be laddies, ye ken, mem. 'I doobt, Betty, ye'll be aidin' an' abettin'. An' it disna become yer years, Betty. 'My years are no to fin' faut wi', mem. They're weel eneuch. 'That's naething to the pint, Betty.
"Ye were going to say Morris," said Rob Roy coolly, for he was too much accustomed to deeds of violence for the agitation he had at first expressed to be of long continuance. "I used to laugh heartily at that reik; but I'll hardly hae the heart to do't again, since the ill-far'd accident at the Loch. Na, na his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.
"Naebody had ony business to tell ye ony sic a thing," returned Aggie, rather angrily. "It's no at the schuil I wad think o' sic a ploy. They wad a' lauch fine! But I WAD fain ken what's intil the thing. I canNOT un'erstan' hoo fowk can coont wi' letters an' crosses an' strokes in place o' figgers. I hae been at it a haillook noo by mysel', ye ken an' I'm nane nearer til 't yet.
"Tyne troth, tyne a'," that is the old bye-word. Merton recognised his friend in this description, but he merely shook a sympathetic head. 'Very unusual, he remarked. 'You really have no hope by this method? 'None at all, or I would not be here on this daft ploy. There's no fool like an auld fool, and, faith, I hardly know the man I was. But they cannot dispute the will.
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