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"Surely the minister would like to have one of his bairns to follow in his footsteps," she said to herself, "and though it may cost more siller to prepare him for the work, I pray that what is needful may be supplied, and my old fingers will na' fail me for many a year to come." The time was approaching for Donald to take his departure.
I wasna in drink, an' I'm no sorry." "Hoot!" returned Mrs Crathie, blurting out her Scotch fast enough now, "I's warran' ye can lee well eneuch whan ye ha'e occasion. Tak' yer siller, an' du as I tell ye." "Wad ye ha'e me damned, mem?" Mrs Crathie gave a cry and held up her hands.
'Considerin' 'at I'm at sae muckle expense wi' ye baith, it wadna hae been ill-contrived to hae brocht the siller to me, an' latten me du wi' 't as I thocht fit. Gang na awa', laddie, she added, as she saw Robert about to leave the room. 'I'll be back in a minute, grannie, returned Robert. 'He's a fine lad, that! said Mr. Innes; 'an' guid 'll come o' 'm, and that 'll be heard tell o'.
He fell in love once more; this time with a decent, bonnie lass who'd have no dealings wi' him until he proved to her that she could trust him. He went to work again for a contractor, and saved his siller. If he thought he should ha' more, he said nothing, only waited. It was no so long before he saved enough to buy a partnership wi' his gaffer. "I'm happy the noo, Harry," he said.
He's buying diamonds for his wife with the siller should be feeding your bairns." Foolishness? Oh, aye but it's easier for you and me to see than for Jock, is it no? And just suppose, noo, that a union comes and Jock gets a chance to join it a real, old fashioned union, not one of the new sort that's for upsetting everything.
His business went to the dogs, and when she'd milked him dry she laughed and slipped awa', and he never saw her again. I'm thinkin', at that, Andy was lucky; had he had more siller she'd maybe ha' married him for it. 'Twas after that Andy shipped before the mast.
"It would kill me to do't how can ye bid me pay back siller, when ye ken how I want it? or dispone Beersheba, when it lies sae weel into my ain plaid-nuik? Nature made Dumbiedikes and Beersheba to be ae man's land She did, by Nichil, it wad kill me to part them." "But ye maun die whether or no, Laird," said Mr. Novit; "and maybe ye wad die easier it's but trying.
All this latter part, of course, I said to myself, but no word of it to the lad before me, for no honest youth can bear any lips to miscall his father save his own. "You will come to the manse with us and stay the night; it is too late to seek other lodging now." "Thank ye kindly, sir, but I hae a wee pickle siller in my pocket," he replied, with modest independence.
Od, that's ane indeed!" "Well, well, you old beldam, carry your fish up to Monkbarns, and see what my sister will give you for them." "Eighteen-pence, or nothing!" "Half-a-crown then, Maggie, and a dram." "Aweel, your honour maun hae't your ain gate, nae doubt; but a dram's worth siller now the distilleries is no working." "And I hope they'll never work again in my time," said Oldbuck.
"Wha am I? wha suld I be, but Meg Murdockson, and wha suld my bairn be but Magdalen Murdockson? Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o' duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi' bread and water and siclike sunkets."
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