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'What for didna Shargar come an' speir efter them, than, in place o' makin' a thief o' himsel' that gait? 'Ye may haud yer tongue, returned Robert, with yet more significance. Falconer, yet reassured a little by Robert's presence. Some glimmering seemed now to have dawned upon the soutar, for he began to prepare a retreat. Meantime Mrs.
I didna come here to be hecklet afore a jury. 'Tell me what he's like, said Robert, agitated with eager hope. 'Gin ye dinna ken what he's like, what for suld ye tak the trouble to speir? But 'deed ye'll ken what he's like whan ye fa' in wi' him, she added, with a vindictive laugh vindictive because he had given her only one glass of strong drink. With the laugh she rose, and made for the door.
He's just been a week at the job. He rins about in a wee motor-cawr, and wad speir the inside oot o' a whelk. 'Where's your house? I asked, and was directed by a wavering finger to the cottage by the stream. 'Well, back to your bed, I said, 'and sleep in peace. I'll take on your job for a bit and see the Surveyor.
I've always been counted a sensible man, but if I told you what was in my head you would think me daft. But I have one word for you. Bide till to-night is past and then speir your question. Maybe you and me will be agreed." The factor rose to go. After luncheon I went for a walk. First I mounted to the crown of the hill and feasted my eyes on the unequalled loveliness of the view.
Is 't a new thing wi' ye to haud open hoose this gait, sir, gien I may tak the leeberty to speir?" "We don't exactly keep open house. We wouldn't like to have any one with us who would count it poor fare. But still less would we like to exclude one of the Lord's friends. If that is a new thing, it ought to be an old one. You believe in Jesus Christ don't you, ma'am?"
She was on a visit to Lady Janet Gordon, an elderly spinster, who lived in Park-street. 'Are you quite sure she's not an adventuress, Shargar? 'It's o' no mainner o' use to tell ye what I'm sure or no sure o', Robert, in sic a case. But I'll manage, somehoo, 'at ye sall see her yersel', an' syne I'll speir back yer ain queston at ye. 'Weel, hae ye tauld her a' aboot yersel'?
"It's what poor women find them and call them to their cost," said Blinder. Tommy's excitement was prodigious. "Now I ken, now I see!" he cried, slapping his leg and stamping up and down the room. "Sit down!" roared his host. "I canna," retorted the boy. "Oh, to think o't, to think I came to speir that question at you, to think her and me has wondered what kind he was, and I kent a' the time!"
"'Sirs, said Menie Adams, for that was the damsel's name, 'I see what ye are; but I'll no speir; howsever, be ruled by me, and gang na near the town of Falkirk this morning, for atwish the hours of dark and dawn there has been a congregationing o' horses and men, and other sediments o' war, that I hae a notion there's owre meikle o' the King's power in the place for any Covenanter to enter in, save under the peril o' penalties.
"I see I have fallen under your displeasure, ma'am," said I. "Yet I will still be so bold as ask after Mistress Drummond." She considered me with a burning eye, her lips pressed close together into twenty creases, her hand shaking on her staff. "This cows all!" she cried. "Ye come to me to speir for her? Would God I knew!" "She is not here?" I cried.
'Wad she gie me a thoosand, d'ye think, if I were to speir? asked Liz; and Teen looked vexed at these idle words. She did not like the sarcastic, flippant mood, and she regarded Liz with strong disapproval and vague uneasiness in her glance. 'I dinna like the way ye speak, Liz, she said quietly. 'But, I say, if ye were in Glesca the noo, what wad ye dae? 'Dae?
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