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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I have had that wad sober me or ony ane," said the matron, "Aweel, Tibb, a lass like me wasna to lack wooers, for I wasna sae ill-favoured that the tikes wad bark after me." "How should that be," said Tibb, "and you sic a weel-favoured woman to this day?"
The same warlike form which had appeared more than once at Glendearg, was seen by Tibb Tacket and Martin, who returned with their young mistress to partake her altered fortunes.
An answer calculated so jistly betwixt the submission due to his parent, and the natural feeling of dignity in one who was by birth master of the mansion, excited universal satisfaction. And as Elspeth herself confessed to Tibb on the same evening, "She did not think it had been in the callant.
"I ken naething about that," said Tibb, "but his likeness it was, that I will be sworn to, just as he used to ride out a-hawking; for having enemies in the country, he seldom laid off the breast-plate; and for my part," added Tibb, "I dinna think a man looks like a man unless he has steel on his breast, and by his side too."
'And have you lived here all your life? she said, drawing back at length, and looking with the most sincere compassion at Tibb. 'Where else could I go, my lady? replied the poor cat; 'it is better than lying in the road. 'And you absolutely don't know what it is to have a good dinner? How very shocking! But now listen to me, Tibb; do you think you can manage to climb over that wall?
"All-Hallow Eve!" said Tibb, in a whisper to Martin. "For the mercy of Our Lady, not a word of that now!" said Martin in reply. "Tell your beads, woman, if you cannot be silent."
Dick bent down and stroked Tibb, the great black cat, which began to purr. "Put on a few more turves, Dick, and a bit or two of wood," said his mother. "Mr Marston may be cold." Dick laid a few pieces of the resinous pine-root from the fen upon the fire, and built up round it several black squares of well-dried peat where the rest glowed and fell away in a delicate creamy ash.
Tibb, luckily, was hidden by a low bush; or I would not answer for it that Glumdalkin would not have flown at her.
I would not for a mark that he were about the house, and a body no ken whare." "It was not Christie," said Mary; "it was it was a gentleman a gentleman with a bright breastplate, like what I hae seen langsyne, when we dwelt at Avenel " "What like was he?" continued Tibb, who now took share in the investigation.
You kirk-folk make sic a fasherie about men shifting a wee bit for their living! Our Border-lairds would ride with few men at their back, if a' the light-handed lads were out o' gate." "Better they rade wi' nane than distress the country-side the gate they do," said Dame Elspeth. "But wha is to haud back the Southron, then," said Tibb, "if ye take away the lances and broadswords?
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