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Sorrow tak me if I thought there was a man in ten parishes could hae done the like! Gie's yer hand," said he, as he rose to his feet; "I'll thraw nor cudgel nae mair wi' you; but, as sure as my name's Andrew, I would bite my last coin through the middle, to gie ye the half o't, should ye want it.
"If she deas, that's ma consarn; I'll ha' noa meddlin wi' my orders dost tha hear?" "Aye, it wor thirrty poond thraan awa lasst month, an it'll be thirrty poond this," said his mother slowly; "thoo art fine at shoutin. Bit thy fadther had need ha' addlet his brass to gie thee summat to thraw oot o' winder."
She was a brittle old lady who creaked as she walked, and cracked like a whin-pod in the heat, but she did her dozen miles or more a day, and passed all the fowls in review, and could not be deceived by the craftiest of farmers' wives; and in the tail of the day she became possessor, and did herself thraw the neck of the stoutest and toughest hen that ever entered a linen bag head foremost.
"'When Mackenzie lies in the perilous ha', The wild Red Cock on the roof shall craw, And the lady shall flee ere the day shall daw, And the land shall girn in the deed man's thraw. And all this is to happen when a Mackenzie, a member of a clan with which we are at feud, sleeps in the Haunted Chamber where we are just now. By the way, what is your name?"
I didn't know anything about the subject, but I took a hand just to have something to do. At that moment the word in dispute was the word three. One Scotchman was claiming that the peasantry of Scotland pronounced it three, his adversaries claimed that they didn't that they pronounced it 'thraw'. The solitary Scot was having a sultry time of it, so I thought I would enrich him with my help.
"I was not aware of your presence, Mr. Joltram," he said stiffly. "Noa, noa, Pazon, m'appen not, but tha's aweer on it now. Nowt o' me's zo zmall as can thraw to heaven through tha straight and narrer way. I'd 'ave to squeeze for 't!" He laughed, a big, slow laugh, husky with good living and good humour. Arbroath shrugged his shoulders. "I prefer not to speak to you at all, Mr. Joltram," he said.
"And I warn you." continued Earnscliff, "that your only way to prove your son's innocence is to give us quiet admittance to search the house." "And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?" said the old dame, scoffingly.
Helbeck said when Laura told him of her wish to go and see her cousins? "I'll warrant he wasn't best pleased! Feyther couldn't abide him because of Teddy. He didn't thraw no stones that neet i' Whinthrupp Lane feyther was a strict man and read his Bible reg'lar but he stood wi' t' lads an looked on he didn't say owt to stop 'em. Mr. Helbeck called to him he had a priest with him 'Mr.
If 'ee was to set a corporal to lead twunty thoosand men, he'd gie them orders that wad thraw them into a deed lock, an' than naethin' short o' a miracle could git them oot o't. Mony a battle's been lost by brave men through bad gineralship, an' mony a battle's been won by puir enough bodies o' men because of their leader's administrative abeelity, Mrs Scholtz."
"Damn you!" half-shrieked, half-panted Mr Cupples in his night-shirt, at Alec's elbow, still under the influence of the same spirit he had banned on its way to Alec Forbes's empty house "damn you, bantam! ye've broken my father's tumler. De'il tak' ye for a vaigabon'! I've a guid min' to thraw the neck o' ye!"
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