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Updated: September 14, 2025
Let us have it at once," and the General lighted a cheroot. "Our bank has failed, and we shall have to give up everything to pay the debt, and . . . Jack, it was I advised you to buy the shares." The Doctor rose and went to the window. "For God's sake don't do that, Sandie. Why, man, you gave me the best advice you knew, and there 's an end of it.
Then as evening drew on and his messengers announced the approach of Wharton's men-at-arms he withdrew with his spoil, repulsed with slaughter his opponent's forces, and safely guarded his spoil, till all the 'gear' was across the Eden water. Then Maxwell himself and his bailiff Sandie Irvine rode down to Solway where his lugger was awaiting by his orders the chance of their return by water.
Bulldog hed a fine stroke." And the three smoked in silent admiration for a space. "Sandie, div ye mind the sins in the prayer? 'Lord deliver the laddies before Thee from lying " "'Cheating," breaks in Bauldie. "'Cowardice," adds Sandie. "'And laziness, which are as the devil," completes Jock.
At least, as he raised his head upon my coming, I thought I could perceive his countenance to lighten. "Ah!" says he, "here comes the good Mackellar. I have just been telling Sandie the story of this place, and how there was a man whom the devil tried to kill, and how near he came to kill the devil instead."
"We will take something easy first what shall it be? Come! we will try Priscilla's courtship. Where is your John Alden, Preston?" Preston quietly moved forward Alexander Fish and seated him. Daisy began to grow warm with trepidation. "You must let your hair grow, Sandie and comb out your long curls into your neck; so, do you see? And you will have to have a dress as much as Priscilla.
These two dived, but did not get down far enough in the water; it seemed to me as I watched their attempts that the stream carried them too swiftly forward, so when my turn came I dived in somewhat higher up, and got as far down as I could in my dive, and kept on striking downwards till I calculated I was close to the spot Sandie had indicated.
Bacon and eggs and fried potatoes, bannocks with butter, heather honey and milk. 'What luck! I murmured in Sandie's ear, 'to be hopelessly lost, and to find this! and I stretched forth my legs at glorious ease. 'Shifty eyes' now produced a 'cutty' and suggested a smoke, which Sandie and I were thinking was the one thing left to complete our satisfaction.
I wrote to Lord Montagu about Scott of Beirlaw's commission, in which Invernahyle interests himself. Item, to a lady who is pestering me about a Miss Campbell sentenced to transportation for stealing a silver spoon. Item, to John Eckford. Item, to James Loch, to get an appointment for Sandie Ballantyne's son. Not one, as Dangle says, about any business of my own.
Neither yet doe I thinke, that the Regions situate vnder the Tropicks are not habitable, for they are found to be very fruitfull also; although Marochus and some other parts of Afrike neere the Tropike for the drinesse of the natiue sandie soile, and some accidents may seeme to some to be intemperate for ouer much heat.
When I returned to Edinburgh, a theatrical star of the first magnitude, I took a morning's holiday to drive down to Newhaven, in search of my old ally, Mistress Sandie Flockhart.
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