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We found her in the Den, sitting by the burn-side, and she said we should never see him again, for she had drowned him. We're sweer, but you'll need to tak' her awa'." "We shall take her away," David said, and when he and Tommy were left together he asked: "Do you see what it means?"
To say naething o' the ill guideship, which micht hae 'garred a minister sweer, it wud be a cruelty naething short o' deev'lich to lock up a puir hairmless cratur like that, as innocent as he 's ill shapit." "He's as God made him," said the marquis. "He 's no as God wull mak him," returned Malcolm. "What do you mean by that?" asked the marquis.
He said, 'I prefer the sweer anes, and the more you struggle, my beauty, the better pleased I'll be. Almost his hinmost words to me was, 'I've been hearing of your Aaron, and that pleases me too! I fired up at that and telled him what I thought of him, but he said, 'If you canna abide me, what made you dance wi' me so often? and, oh, laddie, that's a question that has sung in my head since syne.
But, still and on, I sair misdoot I'm better noo than at the stert. Sae hearken to me, lads, It's truth I maintain: Man's works are but rags, for I ken by my ain. I hae a name for decent trade: I'll wager a' the countryside Wad sweer nae trustier man was made, The ford to soom, the bent to bide.
'Is she going to be married to him? inquired Gladys, with interest. 'She hopes sae; but but I wadna like to sweer by it. He's a slippery customer, an' aye was. I ken a lassie in Dennistoun he carried on as far as Liz, but I'm no' feared for Liz. She can watch hersel'. A strange feeling of weariness and vague terror came over Gladys.
The Coffin Brig remains, but the double dykes have fallen bit by bit into the burn, and the path they made safe is again as naked as when the Kingoldrum Jacobites filed along it, and sweer they were, to the support of the Pretender.
But the trouble is how to dispose of you until your father come. I thought last night you seemed a little sweer to part from me!" "It will be more than seeming then," said she. "You are a very young maid," said I, "and I am but a very young callant. This is a great piece of difficulty. What way are we to manage? Unless, indeed, you could pass to be my sister?"
When an advocate forgot himself so far as to say intoxicated, a Drumtochty man might be excused for being upset. "Losh, man," when he had recovered, "hoo cud ony richt-thinkin' man sweer tae sic an awfu' word? Na, na, a' daurna use that kin' o' langidge; it's no cannie." The advocate tried again, a humbler, wiser man. "Was there a smell of drink on him?"
There him at Agincourt wha shone. Few better were or braver; And yet wi' funny queer Sir John He was an unco shaver For mony a day. Dam't, but Burns is gude." "Huts, man, dinna sweer sae muckle!" frowned the old Provost. "Ou, there's waur than an oath now and than," said the baker. "Like spice in a bun it lends a briskness. But it needs the hearty manner wi't.
This was only for the time it takes to ask a question with the eyes, however, for Corp was looking very miserable. "I'm sweer to say it," he announced to Tommy and David, "but it has to be said. We canna keep her." Evidently something had happened, and Tommy rose to go to Grizel without even asking what it was. "Wait," David said, wrinkling his eyebrows, "till Corp tells us what he means by that.
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