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By good luck she selected the right finger, on which the ring slipped easily, then folding the hands one over the other, and putting in them some flowers, which, while they did not hide the ring, covered it partially, so that only a very close observer would be apt to think it was not real, she said, "If you wasn't married with a ring you shall be buried with one, an' it looks right nice on you, it do, an' I hope ole granny Thomas'll be hyar an' see it wid her snaky eyes speerin' 'round.
For instance, now that consciousness had returned, I noticed that the father himself, and not the daughter, did all the waiting on me even to the carrying of my meals. "How is your daughter, Mr. Sutherland?" I asked, surely a natural enough question to merit a civil reply. "Aye is it Frances y'r speerin' after?" he answered, meeting my question with a question; and he deigned not another word.
'That means you do all the work and give God the credit, retorted Gaston, with a sneer; 'I know all about that. 'Ah, ye'll gang tae the pit o' Tophet when ye dee, said Mr McIntosh, who had heard this remark with horror; 'an' ye'll no be sae ready wi' your tongue there, I'm thinkin'; but ye are not speerin aboot Mistress Villiers. 'Why, is she in town? asked Vandeloup, eagerly.
But I'm thinking ye'll no do y'r company ony harm by speerin' after the designs o' fightin' men who make ladders." "Oh!" I cried, all alert for information. "Have they been making ladders?" He pulled the spectacles down on his nose and deliberately reopened the book of sermons. "Of that, I canna say," he replied. Only once again did he emerge from his readings. I had risen to go.
Above the door was a small board, nearly square, upon which was painted in lead-colour on a black ground the words, "Licensed to sell beer, spirits, and tobacco to be drunk on the premises." There was no other sign. "Them 'at likes my whusky 'ill no aye be speerin' my name," said Mistress Croale.
"Eh, sir," he whispered, with an accent that broadened with his feelings. "Eh, but look at the puir wee lassie! Will ye no be ashamed o' yerself for putting the tricks of a Circe on sic a honest gentle bairn? Why, man, you'll be seein' the sign of a limb of Satan in a bit thing with the mother's milk not yet out of her! She a flirt, speerin' at men, with that modest downcast air?
Not that in this book there's any great plan; it's just as if we were speerin' together. But one thing puts me in mind o' another. And it so happened that that gay morn at Montrose when Mac and I tried our hands at the gowf brought me in touch with another and very different experience. Ye'll mind I've talked a bit already of them that work and those they work for.
His reflections were interrupted by the appearance of a slovenly maid-servant, with a cotton handkerchief tied round her head, and an uncleaned sauce-pan in her hand. "Eh, Maister Bishopriggs," cried the girl, "here's a braw young leddy speerin' for ye by yer ain name at the door." "A leddy?" repeated Bishopriggs, with a look of virtuous disgust.
"Nay," he said, "but that is a question for you, Saunders. It is not I that think of marrying her." "The Lord be thankit for that! for gin the minister gaed speerin', what chance wad there be for the betheral?" "Have you spoken to Meg herself yet?" asked Mr. Welsh.
Robin Wood, ye needna speer. Eh Robin, is this you? Ou aye, but I'm deid noo! Ask not at all, Where flew his saul, When of the body death bereft her: She, like his rhymes Upon the Times, Was never worth the speerin' after! Speerin', I should mention, for the benefit of those ignorant of Lowland Scotch, means asking or inquiring. It is recorded in history that a certain Mr.
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