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Updated: June 29, 2025
My sister micht come whiles, she said, gien she camna ower aften; but lasses had naething to dee wi' brithers. Wha was to tell wha was or wha wasna my brither? I tellt her 'at a' my brithers was weel kenned for douce laads; an' she tellt me to haud my tongue, an' no speyk up; an' I cud hae jist gien her a guid cloot o' the lug I was that angert wi' her."
"Noo, ye jist hearken, Tibbie," she said, as she returned. And, opening the Bible, she read one of Tibbie's favourite chapters, rather slowly no doubt, but with perfect correctness. "Weel, lassie, I canna mak heid or tail o' 't." "I'll tell ye, Tibbie, what the mune aye minds me o'. The face o' God's like the sun, as ye hae tellt me; for no man cud see him and live."
He kens my wark's worth my wages whatever he likes to set me til. Mair by token he wad hae tellt me himsel'! I s' jist gang straucht back an' speir." She turned, evidently in thorough earnest, and set off at a rapid pace back towards the house. Cosmo glanced at Elsie. She had turned white with the whiteness of fear, not of wrath. She had not expected such action on the part of Aggie.
"An' jist bethink ye, my lord: wad it be onything less nor an imposition to lat a man merry her ohn tellt him what she was?" "You insolent old woman!" cried the marquis, losing his temper, discretion, and manners, all together. "Go and do your worst, and be damned to you!"
It was clear that she was in a dream-boat, with Jesus in the hinder part asleep upon a pillow. The sounds of the water outside had stolen through her ears and made a picture in her brain. Suddenly she cried out: "I tellt ye sae! I tellt ye sae! Luik at it! She woke with the cry weeping. "I thocht I had the sicht o' my een," she said sobbing, "and the Lord was blin' wi' sleep."
"But," resumed Cosmo, "ye haena tellt me yet 'at it's nane o' my business what Grizzie had in her pock last nicht." "Na, I cudna tell ye that,'cause it wadna be true. It is yer business." "What was i' the pock than?"
Hae ye gotten ony prizes noo? 'Ay have I. I'm sorry they're nae baith o' them the first. But I hae the first o' ane an' the third o' the ither. 'I am pleased at that, Robert. Ye'll be a man some day gin ye haud frae drink an' frae frae leein'. 'I never tellt a lee i' my life, grannie. 'Na. I dinna think 'at ever ye did. An' what's that crater Shargar aboot?
When he came to tell how he had encountered him in the deserted factory: 'Luik here, father, here's the mark o' the cut, he said, parting the thick hair on the top of his head. His father hid his face in his hands. 'It wasna muckle o' a blow that ye gied me, father, he went on, 'but I fell against the grate, and that was what did it. And I never tellt onybody, nae even Miss St.
It's no muckle I can du for you or for him, but there's ae thing I'm set upo', and that's haudin ye frae Francie Gordon the nicht. He'll be awa the morn! 'Wha tellt ye that? returned Phemy with a start. 'Jist yer ain aunt, honest woman! answered Kirsty, 'and sair she grat as she telled me, but it wasna at his gaein! 'She micht hae held the tongue o' her till he was gane!
"Ow, 'deed ay! And I'm no my lane, Thamas. But we are tellt that." "The serpent turned oot an ill cooncellor upon ae occasion ower well to be remembert by Adam's race." "The words stan' as I say," persisted James. "Ye're no to mak' the serpent yer cooncellor, man. But ance ye ken yer duty, ye may weel tak example by him hoo to carry 't oot.
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