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She tell't him flat she loved another man." "Another man?" I echoed. "I explain yourself, if you please, Mr. Stair. What other man " He was at the door by this, and he broke out upon me in such a blast of cursing as I hope never to hear from the lips of such an old man again. "Ye cold-blooded, crusty devil!" he quavered, when all his breath was spent upon the bigger malisons.
I had to take back to town the train by which she had come out, but she made the most of her time. "There's been great doin's in yer hoose in yer absence. Marg'et 's been tellin' yer sister's servant a' aboot Mary's luv affairs. Mary tell't her 'at Eesabelle bade her write Willum Axworthy an' spier his intentions; that if she didna, Mrs.
"Hae na I tell't ye," said Sandy, somewhat sardonically, "gin ye're born tae be hangit, the bullet's no made that'll kill ye." "Ye're as like to be hanged yerself," said Tom, somewhat resentfully, giving the proverb a rather literal interpretation. "Tush, mon, nae offence, its ony an auld Scotch saw, that. The prisoners were sent to Montreal and Quebec.
"'Good Deeds!" he repeated bitterly. "I tell ye I'm fair wore out wi' good deeds. Yon man Mackintosh tell't me this was going to be a grand holiday. Holiday! Govey Dick! It's been like a Setterday night in Main Street a' fechtin', fechtin'." No collocation of letters could reproduce Dougal's accent, and I will not attempt it.
'Oh, jist guessed. It's her? 'Maybe. . . . She hasna ta'en the ring yet. 'But ye think she will, or ye wudna ha'e tell't me. Weel, I'm sure I wish ye luck, Macgreegor. She's a bonny bit lass, rael clever, I wud say, an' an' gey stylish. 'She's no that stylish onyway, no stylish like Aunt Purdie. 'Ah, but ye maunna cry doon yer Aunt Purdie 'I didna mean that. But ye ken what I mean, fayther.
"Ye maun either pit yon hizzy oot the hoose, or I'll hitta gang." "What's the matter now, mother?" "I tell't her to brush the boys' bits tae be ready for the schule in the mornin'. They were thrang wi' their lessons an' she wasna daein' a han's turn." "And what did she say?" "S'y! I wush ye'd seen the leuk she gi'ed me!" "The boys can brush their ain bits," said she; "I'm no' their servant."
He got a lassie frae Auchenlochan to cook, but she and her box gaed off in the post-cairt yestreen. I doot he tell't ye a lee, though it's no for me to juidge him. I've never spoken a word to ane o' thae new folk." Dickson inquired about the "new folk." "They're a' now come in the last three weeks, and there's no' a man o' the auld stock left.
"We sail to-night, anyway," said Lord Dunseverick. "Ay, we do. I tell't Ginty. He's the captain of The McMunn Brothers, and a good man." "I've met him. In fact " "If you've met Ginty you've met a man who knows his business, though I wish he'd give over drinking whisky. However, he's a strong Protestant and a sound man, and you can't expect perfection." "Capital!" said Lord Dunseverick.
"We are in heavy sorrow; puir Liston Cairnie and his son Willy lie deed at the bottom o' the Firrth." "Gude help us!" said Sandy, and his voice sank. "An', oh, Sandy, the wife does na ken, and it's hairt-breaking to see her, and hear her; we canna get her tell't; ye're the auldest mon here; ye'll tell her, will ye no, Sandy?" "No, me, that' I will not!"
She's no tell't me everything, I daresay." "Then I will tell you the plain truth of it," I said. "This marriage was never anything more than the form we all agreed it should be at the time; a makeshift to serve a purpose. If you think I would hold your daughter to it " "Hut, tut, man! what will ye be havering about! Ye'll never cast the poor bit lassie off that way!
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