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But there's nae law, I trow, that makes it a sin to ken where ither folles siller is, if we didna pit hand til't oursell?" Oldbuck walked once or twice up and down the room in profound thought, endeavouring to find some plausible reason for transactions of a nature so mysterious but his ingenuity was totally at fault. He then placed himself before the prisoner.
"What's the guid o' haein' a father like that sleepin' and snorin' whan maist ye're in want o' 'im!" thought Aggie to herself; but what she replied was, "Bide, mem, till we hear what Cosmo has to say til't." "That is a peculiar name!" remarked the lady, brightening at the sound of it, for it could, she thought, hardly belong to a peasant.
Heh! but it's weel mindet, the bar on my back-yett's in the want o' reparation I maun see til't the morn."
"You see the hoose was taen, at ony rate," continued Sanders. "An' I'll juist ging in til't instead o' Sam'l." "Quite so." "An' I cudna think to disappoint the lassie." "Your sentiments do you credit, Sanders," said the minister; "but I hope you do not enter upon the blessed state of matrimony without full consideration of its responsibilities. It is a serious business, marriage."
Some said he dee'd by his ain han', driven on til't by the enemy; an' it was true the blade he cairriet was lyin' upo' the grass aside 'im; but ither some 'at exem't him, said the hole i' the side o' 'im was na made wi' that. But o' a' 'at cam to speir efter 'im, the English lord was nane. He hed vainished the country.
"I'm sayin' only for mysel'. I ken nane sae to blame as I would be mysel'." "Is na that makin' yersel' oot better nor ither fowk, lass?" "Gien I said I thoucht onything worth doin' but the wull o' God, I wad be a leear; gien I say man or woman has naething ither to do i' this warl' or the neist, I say it believin' ilkane o' them maun come til't at the lang last.
And eh, glaid sure he maun be, wi sic a lot o' his bairns at hame aboot him! 'Ay, returned David with a sigh, thinking of his old comrade and the son he had left behind him, 'but there's the prodigal anes! 'Thank God, we hae nae prodigal! 'Aye, thank him! rejoined David; 'but he has prodigals that trouble him sair, and we maun see til't 'at we binna thankless auld prodigals oorsels!
Jock Gordon, who had remained about the farm, went quickly to the gate at the end of the house as if to shut it. "Come back oot o' that," said Meg sharply. Jock turned quite as briskly. "I was gaun to stand wi' my back til't, sae that they micht ken there was naebody luikin'. D'ye think Jock Gordon haes nae mainners?" he said indignantly.
"I doobt, father, I'm no likly to preach ony mair: I've come to see 'at I never was fit for the wark, neither had I ever ony ca' til't." "It may be sae, Jeemie," answered his father; "but we'll haud awa frae conclusions till ye're better, and able to jeedge wi'oot the bias o' ony thrawin distemper."
Gien I dinna mak His mine, and stick til't, I'm lost! Noo, mother, I'll set the things, and run ower to the hoose, and lat An'rew ken I'm here!" "As ye wull, lass! ye'r ayont me! I s' say naething anent a willfu' woman, for ye've been aye a guid dochter. I trust I hae risen to houp the Lord winna be disappointit in ye."
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