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Unless something unexpected happens to the laddie unless he take to playing at scholarship as if it were a Jacobite rebellion, for instance he shouldna have the ghost of a chance of a bursary, and if he were any other boy as ill-prepared I should be ashamed to send him up, but he is Tommy Sandys, you see, and it is a terrible thing to say, but it's Gospel truth, it's Gospel truth I'm trusting to the possibility of his diddling the examiners!"
"She was never very strong." "If she shouldna be well, she must come home; and, Effie, though I would never say to an elder sister that she could be too patient and tender to one of the little ones and that one sometimes wilful and peevish, and no' very strong yet Christie may be none the worse, for a wee while, no' to have you between her and all trouble. My dear, I know what you would say.
You are down among the mist now; I am farther up the brae, and get a glimpse, through the cloud, of the sunshine beyond. Dinna fret about Christie, or about other things. I believe you are God-guided; and what more can you desire? As the day wears on, the clouds may disperse; and even if they shouldna, my bairn, the sun still shines in the lift above them."
Never had either waked at four; but one of them was married now, and any woman can wake at any hour she chooses, so at four Corp was pushed out of bed, and soon thereafter they took the road. Grizel's blinds were already up. "Do you mind," Corp said, "how often, when we had boasted we were to start at four and didna get roaded till six, we wriggled by that window so that Grizel shouldna see us?"
I shouldna wonder if she might have some homesick thoughts, then, even in the midst of her happiness, for she has a tender heart! But, if they love one another, there is little doubt but it will be well with them, seeing they have the fear of God before their eyes. And, she may come back and end her days on this side of the sea, yet, who knows?" "I shouldn't wonder a mite," said Mr Snow.
I shouldna' be standin' here lookin'. There will be blood shed before the morn's morning. Guid send that they do not burn us a' in our beds!" "Come to your ain bed, ye auld fule!" was the wife's sleepy rejoinder; "if the gentlemen have onything to sell, we will hear of it the morn as usual.
'A tait o' woo' would be scarce amang us, said the goodwife, brightening, 'if ye shouldna hae that, and as gude a tweel as ever cam aff a pirn. I'll speak to Johnnie Goodsire, the weaver at the Castletown, the morn. Fare ye weel, sir! and may ye be just as happy yoursell as ye like to see a' body else; and that would be a sair wish to some folk.
When the Laird came up with Jeanie, the first words he uttered were, "Jeanie, they say ane shouldna aye take a woman at her first word?" "Ay, but ye maun take me at mine, Laird," said Jeanie, looking on the ground, and walking on without a pause. "I hae but ae word to bestow on ony body, and that's aye a true ane." "Then," said Dumbiedikes, "at least ye suldna aye take a man at his first word.
Na, na! when I was in that way I played at giff- gaff with the officers: here a cargo taen vera weel, that was their luck; there another carried clean through, that was mine; na, na! hawks shouldna pike out hawks' een. 'And this Colonel Mannering? said Brown.
"But tha shouldna worrit!" he said softly, pleading. "No, I don't worry!" she laughed tenderly and resigned. "Yea, tha does! Dunna thee worrit," he implored, caressing. "No!" she consoled him, kissing him. They had a stiff climb to get to the top again. It took them a quarter of an hour. When he got on to the level grass, he threw off his cap, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sighed.
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