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He checked himself abruptly. "Come, come," said I, "finish your story; what about MacLachlan and the lady?" "The lady's out of the tale this time," he said, shortly. "I met him stravaiging the vacant street last night; that was all." "Then I can guess his mission without another word from you," I cried, after a little dumfounderment. "He would be on the track of his cousin."
The other one would have been a little closer on your elbow, and a lantern's a very queer contrivance to be stravaiging with on a summer day." All her contempt seemed to be for Gilian, and he felt mightily uncomfortable. "Tell me this," she went on, suddenly taking Nan by the arm and bending a most condemnatory face on her; "tell mc this: did you run away from the other one?"
Corp would have replied admiringly to this "Oh, the little deevil!" "He can take it wi' him to the herding, then, and see if it'll keep the cattle frae stravaiging." "It's no that kind of cleverness either," said Elspeth, quaking, and quaked also Tommy, who had gone to the garret, to listen through the floor. "No?
They were aye, for a time, driving their cattle through the town on the Lord's day or stravaiging about the roads and woods, or drinking and listening to pipers piping in the change-houses at time of sermon, fond, as all our people are by nature, of the hearty open air, and the smell of woods, and lusty sounds like the swing of the seas and pipers playing old tunes.
Washings were not brought in, though Mr. Dishart had preached against the unseemly sight of linen hanging on the line on the Sabbath-day. Innes, stravaiging the square and wynds in his apple-cart, jingled his weights in vain, unable to shake even moneyed children off their stools, and when at last he told his beast to go home they took with them all the stir of the town.
As for her, he had baited the poor woman so long that it had become a habit; he never spoke to her without a sneer. "Ay, where have you been stravaiging to?" he would drawl; and if she answered meekly, "I was taking a dander to the linn owre-bye," "The Linn!" he would take her up; "ye had a heap to do to gang there; your Bible would fit you better on a bonny Sabbath afternune!"
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