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"And I was thinkin, this vera meenute," returned the soutar, "sic a bonny day as it was for the Lord to gang aboot amang his ain fowk. I was thinkin maybe he was come upon Maggie, and was walkin wi' her up the hill to Stanecross nearer til her, maybe, nor she could hear or see or think!" "Ye're a deal taen up wi' vain imaiginins, MacLear!" rejoined the minister, tartly.
"I dinna haud wi' yon view o' the thing ava," said Bandy Wobster. "He wud hae's a' believe that fowk never grow a bit aulder in heaven. The thing appears to me to be ridic'lous. Elijah, a thoosand 'ear efter he was taen up, cam' back withoot being a bit cheenged ether ae wey or anither; that was his idea o't."
Whaur, think ye, wad the sma' things ye wantit for my mother hae come frae, gien I hadna happent to hae that property left? We're weel taen care o', ye see, Grizzie! That WAD hae tried my faith, to hae my mother gang wi'oot things! But he never suffers us to be tried ayont what we're able to beir; an' sae lang as my faith hauds the grup, I carena for back nor belly!
The garrison and our ain horse could hae taen Rob Roy easily enough. There's the hand," he said, holding up his own, "should lay him on the green, and never ask a Hielandman o' ye a' for his help." "Ye might hae loot us bide still where we were, then," said Inverashalloch. "I didna come sixty miles without being sent for.
'Deil hae me, if they arena a' mad thegither! said Dinmont, occupying with less ceremony a seat at the bottom of the table; 'or else they hae taen Yule before it comes, and are gaun a-guisarding. A large glass of claret was offered to Mannering, who drank it to the health of the reigning prince.
"Bell's to marry me," explained Sanders. "But but what does Sam'l say?" "He's willin'," said Sanders. "And Bell?" "She's willin' too. She prefers 't." "It is unusual," said the minister. "It's a' richt," said Sanders. "Well, you know best," said the minister. "You see the hoose was taen, at ony rate," continued Sanders, "an' I'll juist ging in til 't instead o' Sam'l." "Quite so."
"Mary's a fell lot better the day, she thinks, Bawbie," says I, when I cam' back; "an' she tell'd me the nurse had been in an' snoddit up her hoose till her, an' sortit the bairn. Puir cratur, she ac'ually grat when I gae her the bits o' things for the litlan; an' tell'd me to thank ye. She was terriple taen up when I said you wasna able to be up the day, an' howps ye'll be better gin the morn."
Wha cud hae been at the schule as I was sae lang, and syne taen oot o' the water, ye ken, and syne�-?" Annie stopped. "Gin ye mean Alec Forbes�-" said Curly, and stopped too. But presently he went on again�-"Gin I war to come atween Alec Forbes and you, hangin' wad be ower gude for me. But has Alec�-" "Na, nae a word. But haud yer tongue. Curly.
Ye ken the signin o' my faither's bill's a mere form; and, if William M'Gillavry's brither-in-law's bill were taen out the box, it would just be put back again. Correct me, my dear Murdoch, if ye think me wrang." "I dinna think ye're far wrang, Peggy," said the deacon; "but how is William M'Gillavry's brither-in-law's bill to be got out o' our corporation box?
"Py Cot, it is for no other cause that I know than his honour's pleasure; for the creature might hae gone on in a decent quiet way for me, sae lang as he respectit the Duke's pounds put reason goot he suld be taen, and hangit to poet, if it may pleasure ony honourable shentleman that is the Duke's friend Sae I got the express over night, and I caused warn half a score of pretty lads, and was up in the morning pefore the sun, and I garr'd the lads take their kilts and short coats."
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