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"I conseeder her a beauty," said Pete, aggressively. "She's a' that," said Hendry. "A' I can say," said Hookey, "is 'at she taks me most michty." "She's no a beauty," Tammas maintained; "na, she doesna juist come up to that; but I dinna deny but what she's weel faured." "What taut do ye find wi' her, Tammas?" asked Hendry.
"Your frien' is maist amusing wi' her audacious tongue ay, and her audacious ways," he said with large official patronage; "and we've enjoyed her here immensely, but I hae mae doots if mae Leddy Macquoich taks as kindly to them.
If he were a dockyard pilferer, it was a nuisance, and a complication in my affairs, but I might pull through the difficulty with presence of mind. "Speak low!" I whispered sharply. "What's your name, and where do you come from?" "I come from Aberdeenshire. But, man! if ye're for having me up in court, for GOD'S sake let me plead in another name, for my mother taks the papers."
MacLure, we're homoeopathists, and I've my little chest here, 'and oot Hopps comes wi' his boxy. "'Let's see't, an' MacLure sits doon and taks oot the bit bottles, and he reads the names wi' a lauch every time. "'Belladonna; did ye ever hear the like? Aconite; it cowes a'. Nux Vomica. What next?
And as soon as he's learnt them, he taks a buik and gangs up til his room, or oot aboot the hoose, or intil the cornyard or the barn, and never comes nigh me! I sometimes won'er gien he would ever miss me deid!" she ended, with a great sigh. "Hoot awa, wuman! dinna tak on like that," returned her husband. "The laddie's like the lave o' laddies!
A new subject being thus ingeniously introduced, Tammas again put his foot on the pail. "I tak no creedit," he said, modestly, on the evening, I remember, of Willie Pyatt's funeral, "in bein' able to speak wi' a sort o' faceelity on topics 'at I've made my ain." "Ay," said T'nowhead, "but it's no the faceelity o' speakin' 'at taks me.
Do yo' really think he'll get better? 'Dear! how t' lass takes on about him. A'll tell him what a deal of interest a young woman taks i' him! From that time Sylvia never asked another question about him. In a somewhat dry and altered tone, she said, after a little pause 'I think on a hood. What do you say to it? 'Well; hoods is a bit old-fashioned, to my mind.
There's Jeames Doo, jist a labourin' man, and aneath your station a'thegether, and he taks ye up in's airms, as gin ye war a bairn o' 's ain. It's no proaper." "I like Jamie Doo better nor onybody i' the haill warl," said Annie, "excep' " Here she stopped short. She would not expose her heart to the gaze of that man. "Excep' wha?" urged Bruce. "I'm no gaein to say," returned Annie firmly.
And thin he taks a stack o' paupers out of his pocket, an' he pulls out one of 'em, an' he says to her, says he, that's the pauper, says he, an' if you die, says be, niver lose sight of that day or night, says he, for it's life an' dith to both of us, says he.
"On hearing this order, the young man thanked me, tears of joy came upon his face; and we passed the night as usual in laughing and delight; in the morning he took leave. The eunuch, agreeably to my orders, bought and delivered over to him the garden and the slave. When in the taks the liquors of various colours, arranged in elegant phials, fell upon my sight; my heart longed to take a draught.
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