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They had to recite Shakespeare in public; how could he stand up and spout, before a whole jing-bang o' them? "I don't want to gang," he whined. "Want?" flamed his father. "What does it matter what you want? Go you shall." "I thocht I was to help in the business," whimpered John. "Business!" sneered his father; "a fine help you would be in business."
"That can never be." Weel, ye'll not be asking me whether what he said has come true or nicht. But I don't mind tellin' ye the man was no sica fool as I thocht him! Eh, noo here's what I'm thinking. Here am I, Harry Lauder. For ane reason or anither, I can do something that others do not do, whether or no they can as to that I ken nothing.
How handsome she thought him. "Ye have a fine brow, Jamie," she said. "I mind the day ye was born sayin' to mysel 'at ye had a fine brow." "But ye thocht he was to be a lassie, mother," said Leeby. "Na, Leeby, I didna. I kept sayin' I thocht he would be a lassie because I was fleid he would be; but a' the time I had a presentiment he would be a laddie.
An' it'll kill the wife." "You will see it differently," I could not help but say; "you know well how I have tried to help you and tried to comfort your poor wife." "That's what I aye thocht till noo," he responded plaintively.
"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a' tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o' a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin' at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an' canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be." "When a' lookit at the doctor's face," Marget said, "a' thocht him the winsomest man a' ever saw.
"Ay, but juist aince," Jess said, "I dinna mind o't but aince. It was the time the doctor came late, an' Jamie, being waukened by him, thocht ye was deein'. I mind as if it was yesterday hoo he cam runnin' to the door an' cried oot, 'I do love ye, Leeby; I love ye richt. The doctor got a start when he heard the voice, but he laughed loud when he un'erstood."
Sae doun he sat, and thocht of a' that had come an' gane since he was in Ba'weary, an' his hame, an' the days when he was a bairn an' ran daffin' on the braes; and that black man aye ran in his heid like the ower-come of a sang. Aye the mair he thocht, the mair he thocht o' the black man.
Gordon said she was leavin' Glesca? 'I've forgotten. Yes, I believe it was the twenty-third, answered Teen listlessly, not being interested in the time. 'My, she'll see a lot, gaun to Ireland wi' a regiment. It's a lively life. I wish I was her. Teen turned sharply round, and looked with reproachful eyes into her companion's face. 'I thocht ye was gled to get away from her, Liz?
Shairp, relapsing into the tears she had been shedding for the last two hours or more. "Is it possible that ye've heard naething ava? The laird Netherglen himsel' oor maister and have you heard naething aboot him as you cam doun by the muir? I'd hae thocht shame to let you gang hame unkent, if I had been Jenny Burns at the lodge." "I did not come that way," said Hugo, impatiently.
I'm leavin', an' I'm gaun awa' doon the country the morn to look for work; but I thocht I'd tell you the whole rotten story first, then I'll get Walker, an' hae a reckonin' wi' him an' be off the morn. I'll pay off that black-hearted brute this day afore I leave Lowwood an' then my conscience will be easier." Mr.
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