Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 19, 2025
'Ay, sir? said Dandie, in a disappointed tone. 'So ye winna take on wi' me, I'm doubting? 'Me! not I. Go home, go home, take a pint and agree. Dandie looked but half contented, and still remained stationary. 'Anything more, my friend? 'Only, sir, about the succession of this leddy that's dead, auld Miss Margaret Bertram o' Singleside.
'I'll bet a rump and dozen, said Pleydell, whispering to the Colonel, 'he has got it in his own pocket. Then addressing the man of law, 'Come, sir, we'll cut this short, if you please: here is a settlement of the estate of Singleside, executed several years ago, in favour of Miss Lucy Bertram of Ellangowan. The company stared fearfully wild. 'You, I presume, Mr.
She drew up wi' Singleside, nae doubt, when she was his housekeeper, and it was a sair vex and grief to a' her kith and kin. But he acknowledged a marriage, and satisfied the kirk; and now I wad ken frae you if we hae not some claim by law? 'Not the shadow of a claim. 'Aweel, we're nae puirer, said Dandie; 'but she may hae thought on us if she was minded to make a testament.
Pleydell had sufficiently enjoyed the surprise of his guest, he called his attention to Miss Bertram's affairs. 'I was in hopes, he said, 'though but faint, to have discovered some means of ascertaining her indefeasible right to this property of Singleside; but my researches have been in vain. The old lady was certainly absolute fiar, and might dispose of it in full right of property.
And ye see Jenny canna miss but to ken manners, and the like o' reading books, and sewing seams, having lived sae lang wi' a grand lady like Lady Singleside; or, if she disna ken ony thing about it, I'm jealous that our bairns will like her a' the better. And I'll take care o' the bits o' claes, and what spending siller she maun hae, so the hundred pound may rin on in your hands, Mr.
She drew up wi' Singleside, nae doubt, when she was his housekeeper, and it was a sair vex and grief to a' her kith and kin. But he acknowledged a marriage, and satisfied the kirk; and now I wad ken frae you if we hae not some claim by law? 'Not the shadow of a claim. 'Aweel, we're nae puirer, said Dandie; 'but she may hae thought on us if she was minded to make a testament.
The first was introduced by a preamble setting forth that the testatrix was lineally descended from the ancient house of Ellangowan, her respected great-grandfather, Andrew Bertram, first of Singleside, of happy memory, having been second son to Allan Bertram, fifteenth Baron of Ellangowan.
And I have it from a sure hand, and that's ane wha saw it, and that's John Wilson, that was the Laird's groom, that Meg appeared to the Laird as he was riding hame from Singleside, over Gibbie's know, and threatened him wi' what she wad do to his family; but whether it was Meg, or something waur in her likeness, for it seemed bigger than ony mortal creature, John could not say.
'Well, sir, continued Mannering, 'to make short, he conceived that, as the property of Singleside lay like a wedge between two farms of his, and was four or five miles separated from Ellangowan, something like a sale or exchange or arrangement might take place, to the mutual convenience of both parties. 'Well, and Bertram
"Well, sir," continued Mannering to make short, he conceived that as the property of Singleside lay like a wedge between two farms of his, and was four or five miles separated from Ellangowan, something like a sale, or exchange, or arrangement might take place. to the mutual convenience of both parties." "Well, and Bertram "
Word Of The Day
Others Looking