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The old woman settled her spectacles on her nose, and looked up, taking a deliberate survey of the newcomer, as she said: "Hech! the quean is unco foine; they be braw claes to come to prison in. Eh, Cuddie, I wad suner hae any ither than ane o' these hizzies brocht in." "But, mither, the word is that she maun be made comfortable," said Cuddie.
"Ay!" said I to myself, and not to the daft limmer, "and did they come to such a figure for so poor a business? This is to lose all indeed." "Gie's your loof, hinny," says she, "and let me spae your weird to ye." "No, mother," said I, "I see far enough the way I am. It's an unco thing to see too far in front." "I read it in your bree," she said.
Fear God, an' mind thy wark, an' thou needna speir o' the sun what gate to turn the boat." "My Norse blood willna stand ony Scot stirring it up, Sinclair. I come o' a mighty kind " "Tush, man! Mules mak' an unco' full about their ancestors having been horses. It has come to this, Geordie: thou must be laird o' theesel' before I'll trust thee again with ony craft o' mine."
"But, safe us, man," quo' I, "how did ye learn a' this? it's an unco way between this and Portanferry." "Never ye mind that," quo' he, "them that brought us the news rade night and day, and ye maun be aff instantly if ye wad do ony gude; and sae I have naething mair to tell ye."
"I'm thinking Faa's unco bad," said the one. "Ay," said the other, "he lookit dooms gash." "He did that," said the first. And their weary silence fell upon them again. Presently Sim turned to me. "Ye're unco ready with the stick," said he. "Too ready, I'm afraid," said I. "I am afraid Mr. "Weel, I wouldna wonder," replied Sim. "And what is likely to happen?" I inquired.
Do you know why those unco spectacles were sometimes almost sweet to me, though I was more often a looker-on than a sharer in their horror?
'I wish to God, he said, 'the old den would tumble down upon the heads of the fools who attack and the knaves who defend it! I see, Waverley, you think I am mad. Leave us, Evan, but be within call. 'The Colonel's in an unco kippage, said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he descended; 'I wish he may be weel, the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?
'Haith, he's luikin 'maist like ither fowk! 'I'm thinkin the deevil maun hae gane oot o' him! said another, and several joined in with their remarks. 'Nae muckle o' a deevil was there to gang oot! He was aye an unco hairmless cratur! 'And that saft-hertit til a' leevin thing! 'He was that!
And so, hens and chickens, and little brown sparrows did much to win her from a regretful remembrance of the past, and to reconcile her to what was strange "unco like" in her new home. Her cows were, perhaps, her prime favourites. Not that she would acknowledge them at all equal to "Fleckie" or "Blackie," now, probably, the favourites of another mistress on the other side of the sea.
But what Malcolm said is true, and it were best that none knew who ye are, for they have an unco quick way here of putting inconvenient people out of the way." "Have you ever heard aught of my father since?" Ronald asked eagerly. "Not a word," Sandy replied.
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