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And as for staying here, if it concerns you to ken, I may stay if I can pay a hundred pund sterling for the lease, and I may flit if I canna, and so gude e'en to you, Christie," and round went the wheel with much activity. "And you like the trade of keeping a public-house?" "I can scarce say that," she replied. "But worthy Mr.
"Have you got the money, master?" he asked. "I have got four pounds, and that is all we can raise. It is as much as we have had in cash, and if you will give up that memorandum for it I will pay it you." "Nonsense! it's for five pund, I tell yer, and five pund I will have." "No you won't; I cannot get it. So if you won't take the four, let me out. You may do your worst." "Come, say four ten."
Here he was obliged to turn his head away. "But we'll no pairt," replied Christie, cheerfully. "Suppose ye're puir, I'm rich, and it's a' one; dinna be so cast down for auchty pund." At this, a slipshod servant entered, and said: "There's a fisher lad, inquiring for Christie Johnstone." "It will be Flucker," said Christie; "show him ben. What's wrang the noo I wonder!"
"'Then tak your boend, an' your pund o' flesh, but in cutting o' 't, if thou dost shed one drop of Christian bluid, thou diest!" Jean Carnie. "Hech!" Christie. "'Thy goods are by the laws Veneece con-fis-cate, confiscate!" Then, like an artful narrator, she began to wind up the story more rapidly. "Sae Shylock got to be no sae saucy.
So I askit him civilly to pay me the hundred-and-fifty pund that was due me on the horses, and no sooner were the words oot o' my mouth, than he swore he would have me hung, drawn and quartered, for a murdering rogue, a thief and a liar. "I heard him till he was clean oot o' breath, and then I explained again.
"And where could you find eighty pound?" "Auchty pund," cried she, "it's no auchty pund that will ding Christie Johnstone, laddy. I hae boats and nets worth twa auchtys; and I hae forty pund laid by; and I hae seven hundred pund at London, but that I canna meddle. My feyther lent it the king or the queen, I dinna justly mind; she pays me the interest twice the year.
"The only drap o' gentle bluid that's in your body was our great-grand-uncle's that was justified* at Dumbarton, and you set yourself up to say ye wad derogate frae your place to visit me! Hark thee, man I owe thee a day in harst I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi' this Sassenach."
"The only drap o' gentle bluid that's in your body was our great-grand-uncle's that was justified* at Dumbarton, and you set yourself up to say ye wad derogate frae your place to visit me! Hark thee, man I owe thee a day in harst I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots, plack and bawbee, gin ye'll be an honest fallow for anes, and just daiker up the gate wi' this Sassenach."
"What do you mean by bringing such a creature as that here, sir? and where is the pony you rode to Glasgow upon?" were my very natural and impatient inquiries. "I sell't it, sir. It was a slink beast, and wad hae eaten its head aff, standing at Luckie Flyter's at livery. And I hae bought this on your honour's account. It's a grand bargain cost but a pund sterling the foot that's four a'thegither.
Diana stared very hard indeed when these words were uttered. She had not the faintest idea what a "pund apiece" meant. Mother Rodesia seemed to consider. "And you may think yourself in rare luck," continued the man; "for, remember, if it is known " Here he walked to the farthest end of the room, and Mother Rodesia followed him.
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