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He rose from his seat, stumped slowly across the room, and, coming close up to Saddletree's ear, said in a tremulous anxious voice, "Will will siller do naething for them, Mr. Saddletree?" "Umph!" said Saddletree, looking grave, "siller will certainly do it in the Parliament House, if ony thing can do it; but where's the siller to come frae? Mr. Deans, ye see, will do naething; and though Mrs.
But a' wadna do; they took the castle at last, and a terrible slaughter they made amo' them; but they were sair disappointed in ae partic'ler, for Cummin's fouk sank a' their goud an' siller in a draw-wall, an' syne filled it up wi' stanes. They got naething in the way of spulzie to speak o'; sae out o' spite they dang doon the castle, an' it's never been biggit to this day.
"You said ye saw Ruby Brand slinking down the market-gate, and that's he's off to sea?" "Ay, and twa or three more folk saw him as weel as me." "Weel, let's tak' up a siller spoon, or somethin', an' put it in the auld wife's garden, an' they'll think it was him that did it." "No' that bad!" said Swankie, with a chuckle.
I took some note of him for a short, bandy-legged, red-haired, big-headed man, that I was to know more of, to my cost. "There can be none the day, Neil," she replied. "How will you get 'sneeshin' wanting siller? It will teach you another time to be more careful; and I think James More will not be very well pleased with Neil of the Tom." "Miss Drummond," I said, "I told you I was in my lucky day.
Then he stared at his mistress. Then he read it again. At length, with a bewildered look, he said, "Gin ye awe the siller, ye maun pay't, mem." "But I can't." "The Lord preserve's! What's to be dune? That wadna gang far." "No, no, James," returned his mistress. "I am not going to take your money to pay Mr Bruce." "He's an awfu' cratur that, mem. He wad tak the win'in' sheet aff o' the deid."
I've in mind a man I know weel. He's a sociable body. He likes fine to gang aboot wi' his friends. But he's no rich, and he maun be carefu' wi' his siller, else the wife and the bairns wull be gae'in wi'oot things he wants them to have. Sae, when he'll foregather, of an evening, wi' his friends, in a pub., maybe, he'll be at the bar.
One woman has given me a disappointment that I will carry to the grave; and another woman is laughing at me, for she has got all my saved siller, and more too; forbye, she is like to marry Bob Severs and share it with him. Then I have them weary notes to meet beyond all. There never was a man so badly used as I have been!" No one pitied him much.
"It'll be lang," he vowed to himsel, "or Willie Wabster hear the last o' this! and langer yet or he see the glint o' the siller he thoucht he was yirnin by 't! It's come and cairry 't hame himsel he sall, the muckle idiot! He may turn 't intil a breid-kist, or what he likes, the gomf!"
"Ou, aye nae doobt! she will be some callant's light o' luve, wha hae a plenty o' siller!" replied the old woman scornfully, as she rose from her place and led the way to the door of a cell about halfway down the same corridor. "Ye'll pit her in here. It will be as guid as anither," she said. Cuddie detached a certain key from his bunch and handed it to her. She opened the door, and they entered.
"Aye," responded he of the apostolic claim, "I'm an undertaker but times is dull. I was an undertaker ten year in Lockerby, but I left there lang syne. I had ae fine customer, the bailie; he had eleven o' a family. But I lost his trade. The bailie was sick an' my laddie, wee Sandy, was aye plaguin' me for a sled. I tell't him I'd get him ane when I had mair siller.
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