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Updated: June 11, 2025
"That micht hae been written for me, Paitrick, or ony ither auld sinner that hes feenished his life, an' hes naethin' tae say for himsel'. "It wesna easy for me tae get tae kirk, but a' cud hae managed wi' a stretch, an' a' used langidge a' sudna, an' a' micht hae been gentler, and not been so short in the temper. A' see't a' noo.
I aye tell my daughter thae things when she grows wearied for a letter frae Lieutenant Taffril It's aye an apology for him. Ye sudna blame him, says I, hinny, for ye little ken what may hae happened." "Ay, ay, Caxon, thou art as good a comforter as a valet-de-chambre. Give me a white stock, man, dye think I can go down with a handkerchief about my neck when I have company?"
It's a fine thing to hae patience. 'Ye come ilka day, Kirsty: what for sudna he come ilka nicht? 'He has reasons, Steenie. He kens best. 'Ay, he kens best. I ken naething but him and you, Kirsty! Kirsty said no more. Her heart was too full. Steenie stood still, and throwing back his head, stared for some moments up into the great heavens over him.
She would like to attend your ladyship, because, being a fisherman's daughter, she is used to the sea, and Mrs Mair is not so much at home upon it, being a farmer's daughter from inland." Receiving Clementina's thankful assent, he turned to Lizzy and said "Min' ye tell my lady what rizon ye ken whaurfor my mistress at the Hoose sudna be merried upo' Lord Liftore him 'at was Lord Meikleham.
"Weel, ye maun jist len' me half a croon o' 't." "Half a croon!" echoed Grizzie, staggered at the largeness of the demand. "I dinna think it's ower muckle," said Cosmo, "seein' I hae to tramp five an' thirty mile the morn. But bake ye plenty o' breid, an' that'll haud doon the expence. Only, gien he can help it, a body sudna be wantin' a baubee in 's pooch.
Only ye maun jist hae a quaiet sough, for the gudeman disna like tramps." "Tramps here, tramps there!" exclaimed the woman, starting into high displeasure; "I wad hae ye ken I'm an honest wuman, an' no tramp!" "Ye sudna luik sae like ane than," said Jean coolly. "But come yer wa's in, an' I s' say naething sae lang as ye behave."
Sudna ye hae come faster up yoursells, instead of flyting at huz?" This excuse would hardly have passed current; but Kettledrummle, who now awoke from his trance of terror, and was known to, and reverenced by, most of the wanderers, together with Mause, who possessed their appropriate language as well as the preacher himself, proved active and effectual intercessors.
I never cud unnerstan' that." "Hoo ken ye that they warna hearkent till?" asked Alec. "Luik at me! Do ye ca' that hearkenin' till a prayer? Luik what she got me back for. Ca' ye that an answer to prayers like my auld mither's? Faith! I'll be forced to repent some day for her sake, though there sudna be anither woman atween Venus and Mars but wad rive wi' lauchin at a word frae Cosmo Cupples.
But jist think what a gran' place it wad be to bide in!" The marquis burst out laughing. "A grand place for gulls and kittiwakes and sea crows!" he said. "But where is it, pray, that a fisherman like you gets such extravagant notions? How do you come to think of such things?" "Thoucht's free, my lord. Gien a thing be guid to think, what for sudna a fisher lad think it?
Rebecca went on with her dinner in silence; even capable men had weaknesses somewhere, and she was accustomed to those moralisings. "A 'm the auldest beadle in the Presbytery o' Muirtown though a' say it as sudna an' the higher the place the mair we 'll hae tae answer for, Becca. Nae man can hold the poseetion a 'm in withoot anxieties.
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