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Na, I'll gang roond by the Roods an' you can tak the buryin'-ground road, so as we can meet on the hill. Yes, Leeby was willin' to agree wi' a' that, juist to get gaen wi' him. I've seen lassies makkin' themsels sma' for lads often enough, but I never saw ane 'at prigged so muckle wi' her ain brother. Na, it's other lassies' brothers they like as a rule."
'To hear ye, mother, a body wud think I cudna ride! 'Forbid it, bairn! Yer father says, man or wuman, there's no ane i' the countryside like ye upo' beast-back. 'They tak to me, the craturs! It was themsels learnt me to ride! answered Kirsty, as she took a riding whip from the wall, and went out of the kitchen. The mare looked round when she entered the stable, and whinnied.
Ay, an impressive sicht. It was yestreen." "Is there a great difference in their ages?" "As muckle as atween auld Peter Spens and his wife, wha was saxteen when he was saxty, and she was playing at dumps in the street when her man was waiting for her to make his porridge. Ay, sic a differ doesna suit wi' common folk, but of course earls can please themsels.
Turning the corner of this house, he went down the narrow passage between it and the next, and in at its open door. But the moment it was entered it lost all appearance of a shop, and the room with the tempting window showed itself only as a poor kitchen with an earthen floor. "Weel, hoo did the pipes behave themsels the day, daddy?" said the youth as he strode in.
Weel, ye see, riches taks to themsels wings and flees awa'; and sae we maunna set oor herts upo' them, for it's no manner o' use. We get nothing by 't. The warst bank that a man can lay up his siller in is his ain hert. And I'll tell ye hoo that is. Ye ken whan meal's laid up ower lang it breeds worms, and they eat the meal.
'The fowk, than, ye see, 'at lo'ed the bonny man, gethert themsels aye thegither to hae cracks and newses wi' ane anither aboot him; and, as I was tellin ye, the fowk 'at didna care aboot him war that angert 'at they set upo' them, and jist wud hae nane o' them nor him.
Other men shake their heads at him. He maun away to his club if he is to be respected. Does he get good dinners at the club? Oh, they cow! You get no common beef at clubs; there is a manzy of different things all sauced up to be unlike themsels. Even the potatoes daurna look like potatoes.
I wud be surer but that I hae thoucht whiles I saw the muckle angels themsels gaein aboot, throu and throu the ondingin flauchter o' the snaw no mony o' them, ye ken, but jist whiles ane and whiles anither, throu amo' the cauld feathers, gaein aye straught wi' their heids up, walkin comfortable, as gien they war at hame in't.
Sae, allooin' the thing maun be, ye'll hae till alloo likewise, an' it's a trouth I'm tellin' ye, sir, 'at it's o' nae sma' consequence to the toon 'at the drucken craturs sud fill themsels wi' dacency an' that's what I see till.
They waylaid Grizel, when she was alone, and thus assailed her, she answering not a word. "What's a father?" "She'll soon no have a mither either!" "The Painted Lady needs to paint her cheeks no longer!" "Na, the red spots comes themsels now." "Have you heard her hoasting?" "Ay, it's the hoast o' a dying woman." "The joiner heard it, and gave her a look, measuring her wi' his eye for the coffin.
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