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What would we not have given for half, nay, for a quarter of the meager ration which a few days back we deemed so inade- quate to supply our wants, and which now, eked out crumb by crumb, might, perhaps, serve for several days?
Ye'd better go into the yard and be at some quate game. Oh, Lord " and she hurried back to her mistress. This time we were safe, but there was tomorrow ahead, with certain discovery. Mr. Watlin, propped in the open doorway, brought his ingenious mind to bear upon the problem. "Now if Mrs.
"The weemen are flighty and the lads are quate, and the hoose will no' be itsel' till ye will be moving about again, an' Miss Janet's lad will . . ." "I will not have Dan called that, Betty," says my aunt. "Ewan McBride's lad he is, if ye must deave me with his forebears . . ."
"Come, you," snarled the man, as though he spoke to a dog; and the girl went to him. "Quate the brute," said he, "for he's trimmlin' sair, and I like his temper a' the better for no' bein' broken." "Ay, I'll quate the brute, easy as I wid yoursel'."
Hear Maecenas: "Debilem facito manu, Debilem pede, coxa, Lubricos quate dentes; Vita dum superest, bene est." And Tamerlane, with a foolish humanity, palliated the fantastic cruelty he exercised upon lepers, when he put all he could hear of to death, to deliver them, as he pretended, from the painful life they lived.
"She do be packin' her bag, byes," she whispered, "she's takin' the eliven o'clock train, an' she won't be back till tomorrow at noon. Now what d'ye think o' that? She's awful quate, but she's niver spilt a tear fer him that I could spot." "For who?" "Why, her brother to be sure. It's him that's dead. It's a attack of brownkitis that's carried him off so suddint.
"When did this happen?" asked the latter, still incredulous. "Are you sure that's true? Dear me! I dinna ken what the world's comin' to at a'!" "Ay, it's awfu'! But it's true. You never ken what thae quate kin' o' modest folk will dae. They look that bashfu' that butter wadna' melt in their mouths; an' a' the time they are just as like to gang wrang as ither folk."
They are made wi' the ither crowd, an' they laugh in their sleeves when they hae sent us awa' back to our work an' oor hames as quate as mice," and Davie looked round in triumph, asking with his eyes, and in the tones of his voice, for confirmation of his views from the others.
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