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Updated: May 9, 2025
Bethink you o' oor "Muckle-Mouthed Meg," that ne'er a Tery will wed wi' withoot a handsome tocher! Aweel, let him wed wi' her the noo "ower the tangs" an' ride awa wi' her on his saddle-bow. 'Twere pity to hang sic a handsome chield as he is an' no mak use o' him as a son-in-law, even if he be ane o' the "auld enemy."
So haste ye fast, and when ye are ready, the house is ready, and the practice and the tocher and as for the lass ye have made it up with her yourself, as I understand." Never was there a poorer-spirited wooer! No, never one. The very pour of words stunned me.
'Aweel, concluded the Provost, 'we wull gie him the chance. 'Look ye, he addressed himself to the captive, 'the guidwife is verra tender hairted: she disna care to see ye trail i' the wind, but will offer ye Meg, oor daughter, instead o' the halter ye hae truly earned. Ye can tak Meg an' your life as her tocher.
The governor keeps me rather short just now, and won't come down handsome till I'm married; but" "So you've lost that and the girl too the lass and the tocher, as a body may say all by the lies of a blackguard on the top of a coach? Ye're a wild lad, John Chatterton, and so vale, et memor esto mei au revoir, as a body may say."
'The auld king spake once to me of his younger son, the Duke of Berry, as they call him, said Sir Patrick; 'but the Constable told me that was all froth, the young duke must wed a princess with a tocher. 'I trust none will put it in our Jeanie's light brain, sighed Lily, 'or she will be neither to have nor to hold. The consultation was interrupted by the sudden bursting in of Jean herself.
Here Kirsty turned to her father, and said, 'Wull ye gie me a tocher, father? 'Ay wull I, lassie, what ye like, sae far as I hae 't to gie. 'I want Donal that's a'. Ye see I maun ride a heap wi' the puir thing, and I wud fain hae something aneth me 'at ye gae me! The cratur'll aye hing to the Knowe, and whan I gie his wull he'll fess me hame o' himsel.
Yet, strange enough too, the Nabob had promised the man who should marry his daughter the weight of herself in fine Indian gold, weighed in a balance, as her tocher. Heard ye ever the like of a tocher, man?" "That would depend upon her size and weight, Janet, lass.
"Truly, my lord, I do believe that the abbess hath so much regard for me, that she would willingly receive the trust of my daughter, and my whole goods and gear, into her sisterhood. Marry, her affection is something of a tenacious character, and would be loth to unloose its hold, either upon the wench or her tocher."
I askit that same o' Rab Burns ance; an' he said, puir chiel, he 'didna ken ower well, we maun bide and see'; bide and see that's the gran' philosophy o' life, after a'. Aiblins folk'll ken their true freens there; an' there'll be na mair luve coft and sauld for siller "Gear and tocher is needit nane I' the country whaur my luve is gane.
The earl is the vera soul of honour, and cares nae mair for warld's gear than a noble hound for the quest of a foulmart; but as for his son, he was like to brazen us a' out ourselves, Steenie, Baby Charles, and our council till he heard of the tocher, and then, by my kingly crown, he lap like a cock at a grossart!
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