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Updated: May 31, 2025
"I ken that," replied Rob, scowling at the four of them. "What are you doing here on sic a nicht?" "Do you see anything strange in the nicht, Rob?" Tosh asked apprehensively. "It's setting to rain," Dow replied. "I dinna see it, but I feel it." "Ay," said Tosh, eagerly, "but will it be a saft, cowdie sweet ding-on?" "Let the heavens open if they will," interposed Spens recklessly.
To the Retainer the old time has hardly passed away, for it is not long since he actually recommended a "domineering Saxon" on the occasion of a domestic disturbance to "take the shtick to 'um, your honour. Sure the ould masther always did. And when he had murthered 'um they was as saft as silk."
He had fairly made up his mind to wear on that day ordinary clothes, but the visit of Saft Tammie reversed his decision. He would show them all that he was not a coward, and he would go on as he had begun come what might. When he came to breakfast in full martial panoply the children, one and all, held down their heads and the backs of their necks became very red indeed.
"If I could, I'd take you home with me, Aunt Ellen; if I were only sure of the outcome of this trouble, I would anyway but to take you there to a home of sorrow " "There, Hester, dear. Don't ye greet. It's my opeenion ye're goin' to find yer son an' tak him in yer arms ance mair. Ye were never the right wife for Peter. I can see that. Ye're too saft an' gentle."
Moreover, it was an indirect rebuke to the "saft" way the others acted about her. If Rosy-Lilly felt rebuffed for the moment by McWha's rudeness, she seemed always to forget it the next time she saw him. Night after night she would sidle up to his knee, and sue for his notice; and night after night she would retire discomfited. But on one occasion the discomfiture was McWha's.
He heard the hours strike one after the other; but try how he would he could not get to sleep. Over and over again he went through the horrible episode of the quicksand, from the time that Saft Tammie had broken his habitual silence to preach to him of the sin of vanity and to warn him.
They'd hae him a bit harder on the sinners, and a bit safter wi' the saints specially wi' theirsels, wha are the vara crown and flower o' a' the saints, and ne'er were sinners no to speak o', ye ken, and outside the responses. And he disna gang saft and slippy doun their throats, as they'd ha'e him, but he is just main hard on 'em.
For two seconds the square shakes to an invasion of dogs, and then again there is only one dog in sight. No one will admit the Scotch mist. It "looks saft." The tinsmith "wudna wonder but what it was makkin' for rain." Tammas Haggart and Pete Lunan dander into sight bareheaded, and have to stretch out their hands to discover what the weather is like.
"You know that you've driven my father and mother, and Professor Lorry, too, to a dinner-party, where the professor is to give a talk about the Thunder Bird and oh! may its fiery tale be a long one to-night you won't have to fetch them home for another two hours yet." "Hoot! It's saft as peppermint.
"Oh, but I'll manish that, Bawbie," says he, gey snappish-like; "but still a man wi' brains in's heid canna juist be setisfeed wi' saft soap an' black lead a'thegither." "Ow weel," says I, "you wud mibby fa' in wi' a fell lot o' baith o' them, even i' the Toon Cooncil.
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