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Updated: June 17, 2025
"They wad be dull thanks, mem, that war thankit afore I kenned what for." "For allowing you to carry me ashore, of course." "Be thankit, mem, wi' a' my hert. Will I gang doon o' my knees?" "No. Why should you go on your knees?" "'Cause ye're 'maist ower bonny to luik at stan'in', mem, an' I'm feared for angerin' ye." "Don't say ma'am to me." "What am I to say, than, mem? I ask yer pardon, mem."
The snow was falling softly, for the wind was still asleep. Kirsty saw their shadows darken the wall, and turning from her work at the dresser, ran to the door to meet them. 'God be thankit! cried David. Marion gave her daughter one loving look, and entering cast a fearful, questioning glance around the kitchen. 'Whaur's Steenie? she said. 'He's wi' Phemy, I'm thinkin, faltered Kirsty.
"The Lord o' lords be thankit, my lord!" said Blue Peter: "the puir man has a freen' this day." Then replacing his bonnet he said "An' what'll be yer lordship's wull?" "First and foremost, Peter, that my best freen', efter my auld daddy and the schulemaister, 's no to turn again' me 'cause I hed a markis an' neither piper nor fisher to my father."
"No luck sent ye back to hear the skreigh o' the lass, but the whisper of the guid Father withoot whose permission not even a sparrow falls to the ground. He chose you as the instrument. I'll never be forgettin' what you did for my dawtie, Tom Morse. Jess will have thankit you, but I add mine to hers." In point of fact Jessie had not thanked him in set words.
God be thankit, the mistress o' Gilnockie can deliver her ain errand." And, pushing the waiting man aside by a sudden jerk of her brawnie arm, she proceeded calmly forward to a door, which she intended to open; but the servant was at her heels, and, laying hold of her plaid, was in the act of hauling her back, when the Warden himself came out, and asked the cause of the affray.
"The auld randy besom!" the soldier commented within himself. "But eh, I didna gie it to be thankit, nae sic a fule as that comes to, neither!"
"Cosmo, we're ower lang ohn thankit. Come here, my son; gang down upo' yer knees, an lat's say to the Lord what we're thinkin'." Cosmo obeyed, and knelt at his father's knee, and his father laid his hand upon his head that so they might pray more in one.
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