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"There is just where you are wrong," said I; "for I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain. The truth is that I am better fitted to go about with rudas men than pretty ladies." "Well, I would think so too, at all events!" said she, at which we both of us laughed. "It is a strange thing, now," said I. "I am not the least afraid with you, yet I could have run from the Miss Grants.
"And I think you will be as little fitted for the rudas men as for the pretty ladies, after all!" says she, when I had done. "But what was your father that he could not learn you to draw the sword! It is most ungentle; I have not heard the match of that in anyone." But you see I do the best I can, and just stand up like Lot's wife and let them hammer at me."
"And YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas! And what might HIS name be, I pray ye?" "Just worthy Mr. Caleb Balderstone frae Wolf's Crag," answered Marion, prompt and prepared for battle. Girder's wrath foamed over all restraint.
ORRA, odd, unemployed. ORRA-TIME, occasionally. OWER, over. PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower. PENDICLE, a small piece of ground. PINGLE, a fuss, trouble. PLENISHING, furnishings. PLOY, sport, entertainment. PRETTY MEN, stout, warlike fellows. REIFS, robberies. REIVERS, robbers. RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground. ROKELAY, a short cloak. RUDAS, coarse, hag-like.
I followed the auld rudas through twa courts she cost me mair money than her lugs were worth. 'Now, by Heaven! said Nanty, 'I would give a thousand guineas, if I had them, to have you worth my beating!
Ebenezer Cruickshanks; in which injunction the page seemed to acquiesce with an air of great indifference. 'Ta duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill. But here's a bit line frae ta Tighearna, tat he bade me gie your honour ere I came back.
Ebenezer Cruickshanks; in which injunction the page seemed to acquiesce with an air of great indifference. 'Ta Duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill. But here's a bit line frae ta Tighearna, tat he bade me gie your honour ere I came back.
"There is just where you are wrong," said I; "for I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain. The truth is that I am better fitted to go about with rudas men than pretty ladies." "Well, I would think so too, at all events!" said she, at which we both of us laughed. "It is a strange thing, now," said I. "I am not the least afraid with you, yet I could have run from the Miss Grants.
"Ye need have said naething about that, man," said the king; "we ken our obligations in that sma' matter, and we are glad this rudas spouse of thine hath bestowed her treasure on ane wha kens to put it to the profit of his king and country. But how the deil did ye come by her, man?" "In the auld Scottish fashion, my liege. She is the captive of my bow and my spear," answered Moniplies.
"I was aye big and buirdly, ye maun understand; a bonny figure o' a woman, though I say it that suldna built to rear bairns braw bairns they suld hae been, and grand I would hae likit it! But I was young, dear, wi' the bonny glint o' youth in my e'en, and little I dreamed I'd ever be tellin' ye this, an auld, lanely, rudas wife! Weel, Mr.
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