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But now we haena sic spirit amang us; we think mair about the warst wallydraigle in our ain byre, than about the blessing which the angel of the covenant gave to the Patriarch even at Peniel and Mahanaim, or the binding obligation of our national vows; and we wad rather gie a pund Scots to buy an unguent to clear out auld rannell-trees and our beds o' the English bugs as they ca' them, than we wad gie a plack to rid the land of the swarm of Arminian caterpillars, Socinian pismires, and deistical Miss Katies, that have ascended out of the bottomless pit, to plague this perverse, insidious, and lukewarm generation."
"It seems tae me," says he, turnin' tae the factor, "that this is the vera man I want. Servants is spoilt noo-a-days," says he, "by ower muckle eddication. I hae nae doobt, Stakes, that ye will suit me well enough. Ye'll hae three pund a month and a' foond, but I shall resairve the right o' givin' ye twenty-four hoors' notice at any time. How will that suit ye?"
'Well, now, said he, at length, looking up, 'I should say, such a watch as that and appurts, holding them up, 'couldn't be bought in a shop under eight-and-twenty pund. 'It cost five-and-thirty, observed Mr. Pacey. 'Did it! rejoined Jack, adding, 'then you were done. Jack then proceeded to do a little more arithmetic, during which process Mr.
'True love is different, said Ursula. 'He must have been cast off by his family for her sake, and have chosen poverty "To make the croon a pund, my Alwyn gaed to sea, And the croon and the pund, they were baith for me."
Do yo mind when yor feyther deed, Davy? he said suddenly, looking up. David nodded, a red flush of presentiment spread itself over his face his whole being hung on Reuben's words. 'He sent for me afore he deed, continued Reuben, slowly; 'an he towd me aw about his affairs. Six hunderd pund he'd got saved six-hunderd-pund!
Why, my Jock would throttle him wi' one bond lashed behind him." "Happen he may happen not," said Barton. "I have but twa pund in the world, but it's on him, every penny, and no hedgin'. But here's t' Maister, and rarely fine he do look." The prize-fighter had come out from his curtain, a squat, formidable figure, monstrous in chest and arms, limping slightly on his distorted leg.
"I'm goin' to ask thirty shillin's for her and thirty shillin's for the boy. That'll be three pund not a bad night's work; eh, Jack?" "No," replied Jack; but then he continued after a pause, "You'll tell him, won't you, mother, to be good to the children.
"Are ye sure it's the richt man, Ecky?" said a voice which he did not hear. "Sure. It's the Glesca body Dobson telled us to look for yesterday. It's a pund note atween us for this job. We'll tie him up in the wud till we've time to attend to him." "Is he bad?" "It doesna maitter," said the one called Ecky. "He'll be deid onyway long afore the morn." Mrs.
"Aweel, there's Jess Rutherford, a widdy, wi' four bairns, ye meicht do waur than ware your siller on her." "Five pounds to begin?" inquired his lordship. "Five pund! Are ye made o' siller? Ten schell'n!" Saunders was rung for, and produced a one-pound note. "The herrin' is five and saxpence; it's four and saxpence I'm awin ye," said the young fishwife, "and Jess will be a glad woman the neicht."
"For a'," said he, "I begin to obsairve it is a work of great merit. I'll seek twenty pund, an' I'll no tak less than fifteen schell'n, at present." The visit of this routine painter did not cheer our artist. The small child got a coal and pounded the floor with it like a machine incapable of fatigue. So the wished-for pose seemed more remote than ever.
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