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Updated: June 19, 2025
"'Change! she cries, 'God save us, change; we sell naething here, and she lifted the guinea oot the old jug on the shelf and handed it back. 'I thought it was just a present, says she, makin' eyes at him, 'for a thankfu' man's free wi' his siller.
"What scriptur hae ye for sic a wanderin' invention, o' no practical value?" "'Deed, sir, what scriptur hed I for takin my brakwast this mornin, or ony mornin? Yet I never luik for a judgment to fa' upon me for that! I'm thinkin we dee mair things in faith than we ken but no eneuch! no eneuch! I was thankfu' for't, though, I min' that, and maybe that'll stan' for faith.
"I should like to examine your boat, friends," said the lieutenant as he stepped across the gunwales. "Oh! sir, I'm thankfu' to find you're not smugglers," said Swankie, with an assumed air of mingled respect and alarm. "If we'd only know'd ye was preventives we'd ha' backed oars at once. There's nothin' here; ye may seek as long's ye please.
She looked me over critically, and then greatly disconcerted me by remarking that: "She was gey thankfu' to the Lord that it was a' by afore I cam', as she had nae wush to be meddled wi' by a laddie of nineteen." Yet I was two years older than the doctor who had attended her. If in China you are so fortunate as to be graced with a beard, the Chinaman will add many years to your true age.
Lauder and I canna have the grandchildren we'd dreamed aboot to play at our knees. But we've one another still, and there's muckle tae be thankfu' for. One thing I liked fine aboot living in London as I did. I got to know my boy better than I could ha' done had we stayed at hame ayant the Tweed.
I'm thinkin Snootie maun hae won til him, and run hame for help, for I faund him maist deid upo' the door-step. David stooped and patted the dog. 'Na, that cudna be, he said, 'or he wud never hae left him, I'm thinkin. Ye're a braw dog, he went on to the collie, 'and I'm thankfu' yer no lyin wi yer tongue oot!
Women's born till 't, an' they tak it an' are thankfu'; but a man never gies in till 't, an' sae it comes harder upo' him nor upo' them. Hear me, my lord: gien there be a man upo' this earth wha wad shield a woman, that man's Ma'colm Colonsay." "If only she weren't his sister!" murmured the marquis.
"I should like to examine your boat, friends," said the lieutenant as he stepped across the gunwales. "Oh! sir, I'm thankfu' to find you're not smugglers," said Swankie, with an assumed air of mingled respect and alarm. "If we'd only know'd ye was preventives we'd ha' backed oars at once. There's nothin' here; ye may seek as long's ye please."
The two men were walking up through the narrow street of the village. "I hear now that it's Mrs. Burnham's son he is," said Andy. "Lawyer Goodlaw came yesterday wid the news." Billy did not seem surprised. He trudged on, saying simply: "Then he's worthy of his mither, the lad is, an' of his father. I'm thankfu' that he's got some one at last, besides his Uncle Billy, happen it's only to bury 'im."
"The ways of Providence are inscrutable something inscrutable, Captain Ireton. I make no doubt ye are sufficiently thankfu' for all your mercies." "Why, as to that, there may be two ways of looking at it. As a soldier, I may justly repine at a fate which ties me here when I should be in the field."
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