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Here I stood on this very spot, said she, drawing herself up so as not to lose one hair-breadth of her uncommon height, and stretching out her long sinewy arm and clenched hand 'here I stood when I tauld the last Laird o' Ellangowan what was coming on his house; and did that fa' to the ground? na, it hit even ower sair!

'Tell me, man, Buchanan answered, 'giff I have tauld the treuthe? 'Yes, replied his nephew; 'sir, I think sa. 'I will byd his fead and all his kin's, then! Melville needed a stout heart for the task that lay before him in Glasgow.

"Ye're no obliged to ken him; and I wadna hae tauld ye, only I feared ye wad ken him in the morning." "Aweel," said Cuddie, sighing heavily, "I 'se awa to pleugh the outfield then; for if I am no to speak to him, I wad rather be out o' the gate." "Very right, my dear hinny," replied Jenny.

It's time ye were doing something in the warld. He pulled down his glasses and looked at the lad gravely. 'I've tauld Mester Reddy ye'll not be going back to school after the holidays. There's over-many mouths to keep, and over-many backs to clothe, lad. Ye'll have to buckle to, like the rest of us. 'Yes, father, said Paul. The prospect looked welcome, as almost any change does to a boy.

When folk tauld him that Janet was sib to the deil, it was a' superstition by his way of it; and' when they cast up the Bible to him, an' the witch of Endor, he wad threep it doun their thrapples that thir days were a' gane by, and the deil was mercifully restrained.

"He wanted," answered Jeanie, "that I suld be man-sworn." "And you tauld him," said Effie, "that ye wadna hear o' coming between me and the death that I am to die, and me no aughten year auld yet?" "I told him," replied Jeanie, who now trembled at the turn which her sister's reflection seemed about to take, "that I daured na swear to an untruth."

It's no very easy for me to set a name upon it; I would first have to ken some small matters. I would have to ken, for instance, what ye gave Hoseason at the first off-go?" "Hoseason!" cries my uncle, struck aback. "What for?" "For kidnapping David," says Alan. "It's a lee, it's a black lee!" cried my uncle. "He was never kidnapped. He leed in his throat that tauld ye that. Kidnapped?

We shall soon discover whether the young man hath been weel nurtured, and if all correspond we shall not refuse him the light of our countenance." "I tender your Majesty thanks for the favour you have conferred upon him," replied De Gondomar. "But ye have not yet tauld us the youth's name, Count?" said the King.

All we can do, the best of us, is to put a bit of soil an' watter half-way up a tree trunk an' hope we're feeding the roots " "Then what can anyone do?" she said, looking at the pitiful little tree, stripped now of its leaves in the autumn chill. "I tauld ye juist not hinder. An' lie as quiet as ye can because ye're a path " It was in this way that Marcella got her education.

And syne he played them again aboot aucht o'clock at nicht, to lat them ken 'at it was time for dacent fowk to gang to their beds. Ye see, there wasna sae mony clocks and watches by half than as there is noo. 'Was he a guid piper, grannie? 'What for speir ye that? 'Because I tauld that sunk, Lumley 'Ca' naebody names, Robert. But what richt had ye to be speikin' to a man like that?