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I thocht that was comin'," sneered the small voice over the stream. The gray dog heard, and checked. "Bob, lad, coom in, I say!" At that he swung round and marched slowly back, gallant as he had come, dignified still in his mortification. And Red Wull threw back his head and bellowed a paean of victory challenge, triumph, scorn, all blended in that bull-like, blood-chilling blare.
I thocht he turned round there an' stood lookin' at the hoose. He would see me better than I saw him for my lamp was i' the window, whaur I've heard tell his mother keepit her cruizey. When my man came in I speired at 'im if he'd seen onybody standin' at the corner o' the brae, an' he said he thocht he'd seen somebody wi' a little staff in his hand.
Bob, exclaimed Shargar, and burst into tears. 'I thocht ye wad come efter me. 'Of coorse, answered Robert, coolly. 'Come awa' hame. 'Whaur til? asked Shargar in dismay. 'Hame to yer ain bed at my grannie's. 'Na, na, said Shargar, hurriedly, retreating within the door of the hovel. 'Na, na, Bob, lad, I s' no du that. She's an awfu' wuman, that grannie o' yours.
"Weel," said McEwan at last, more quietly. "I'll be going o'er to enlist. I would ha' gone long sine, but that me poor girl would ha' thocht I'd desairted her. She doesna' need me now, and there's eno' left for the lad. Aye, this is me call. I was ay a slow man to wrath, Mary, but now if I can but kill one German before I die " His great fist clenched again on the table.
"Oh! we misdooted that; for we thocht it was a treacherous thing on Lord John's part," said Sandy. "It is hard eneuch for the Leeberals to get their dues wi' this restricted franchise; an' this arrangement would mak the Tories stronger than they are noo." "But is it not just that a minority of a third should be secured their third share in the representation?" asked Francis.
"I maun gang, dearest; I maun gang," said Willie, and pressed her to his breast; "but the thocht o' my ain wifie will mak the months chase ane anither like the moon driving shadows owre the sea. There's nae danger in the voyage, hinny, no a grain o' danger; sae dinna greet; but come, kiss me, Tibby, and when I come hame I'll mak ye leddy o' them a'."
'I never thocht to be sae favoured! Eh! but I hae langed, and noo I hae spoken! with which words he sat down, contented. When Mr. Cocker overtook his master, as MacGregor had not unfitly styled him, he only got a damning for his pains, and went home considerably crestfallen. Lord Rothie returned to the landlady in her parlour. 'What's the maitter wi' ye, my lord?
A' thocht so, an' a' wud juist gie ye due intimation that the only person qualified an' entitled tae gie ye information on sic subjects is masel', an' ony ither is unjustified an' unwarranted. "Fower heads? Three an' an application is the Doctor's invariable rule, an' gin a probationer gied oot a fourth, a' winna undertake tae say what michtna happen.
"It gar'd ma very blood rin faster tae the end of ma fingers juist tae look at him," Drumsheugh expatiated afterwards to Hillocks, "for a' saw noo that there was tae be a stand-up fecht atween him an' deith for Saunders, and when a' thocht o' Bell an' her bairns, a' kent wha wud win.
He thocht we was to hae sic a terrible rain that he implored the minister no to pray for it, and so angry was Mr. Dishart that he ordered the whole Session out o' the kirk. I saw them in Couthie's close, and michty dour they looked." "Yes, as sure as death, Tammas Whamond locked the kirk-door in Mr. Dishart's face." "I'm a' shaking! And small wonder, Marget, when I've heard this minute that Mr.
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