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I repeated what I had said, and insisted upon my right to return in the ship. I "raised my arm, and tauld my crack, Before them a'." But it would have all availed me nothing, had I been "some poor body," before this absolute, domineering tribunal.
"I've tauld ye afore, Marcella. There's no ending tae things! Sometimes the evil comes cropping oot, like when men get caught an' buried on Lashnagar. Sometimes it's something bonny, like yon flooer. Yon apple was meant to live an' bear fruit; the bonny apple's juist the makeweight. It's the seed that matters all the time the life that slides along the tree's life.
"My father tauld me sae forty years sin', but I ne'er fand time to mind him Jock, ne'er drink brandy in the morning, it files the stamach sair; gin ye take a morning's draught, let it be aqua mirabilis; Jenny there makes it weel Doctor, my breath is growing as scant as a broken-winded piper's, when he has played for four-and-twenty hours at a penny wedding Jenny, pit the cod aneath my head but it's a' needless!
I tauld ye it wad ill repay ye, for it was but a fule thing. "I remember all about that night perfectly, now you call it to my recollection. I went straight home, and did not go out again I was so taken up with Aiken Drum." "I tell't ye sae!" cried Cupples, triumphantly. "Wha wadna tak' the word o' The MacChattachan?
But the times cam hard, and Rob was venturesome. It wasna my faut it wasna my faut; he canna wyte me I aye tauld him o't And the creditors, mair especially some grit neighbours o' his, gripped to his living and land; and they say his wife was turned out o' the house to the hill-side, and sair misguided to the boot.
I called the Ace of Clubs and the Ten of Diamonds. My aunt Chance lifted her eyes to the ceiling with a look of devout gratitude which sorely tried my mother's patience. Having told my fortune in these encouraging terms, my aunt declined to carry the experiment any further. "Eh, lad! it's a clean tempting o' Proavidence to ask mair o' the cairds than the cairds have tauld us noo.
It wad but raise a strife atween the twa, ohn dune an atom o' guid. She wud only rage at the laddie, and pit him in sic a reid heat as wad but wald thegither him and his wull sae 'at they wud maist never come in twa again. And though ye gaed and tauld her yer ain sel, my leddy wad lay a' the wyte upo' you nane the less.
"I'll gie you dog's wages, ye rascal, if ye dinna attend to what I say t'ye We are gaun into the Hielands a bit" "I judged as muckle," said Andrew. "Haud your peace, ye knave, and hear what I have to say till ye We are gaun a bit into the Hielands" "Ye tauld me sae already," replied the incorrigible Andrew. "I'll break your head," said the Bailie, rising in wrath, "if ye dinna haud your tongue."
"And you were sent," continued Morton, "to carry to Lord Evandale the unpleasant news of the men's mutiny?" "Just e'en sae," said Jenny; "Tam Halliday took the rue, and tauld me a' about it, and gat me out o' the Castle to tell Lord Evandale, if possibly I could win at him." "But how can he help you?" said Morton; "he is a prisoner."
"And you were sent," continued Morton, "to carry to Lord Evandale the unpleasant news of the men's mutiny?" "Just e'en sae," said Jenny; "Tam Halliday took the rue, and tauld me a' about it, and gat me out o' the Castle to tell Lord Evandale, if possibly I could win at him." "But how can he help you?" said Morton; "he is a prisoner."
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