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Ye will die the death of a cadger's powney, in a wreath of drift! and what can I do better than lie doun and die wi' you? for ye winna let me win siller to keep either you or mysell leevin. 'Haud your nonsense tongue, woman, said Willie, but less absolutely than before. 'Is he a real gentleman, or ane of the player-men? 'I'se uphaud him a real gentleman, said the woman.
When our Liddesdale friend had heard the whole to an end, he shook his great black head 'Weel, I'll uphaud there's baith gude and ill amang the gipsies, and if they deal wi' the Enemy, it's a' their ain business and no ours. I ken what the streeking the corpse wad be, weel eneugh.
Lord help ye, I was the keeper's assistant down at the Isle mysell, and I'll uphaud it the biggest man in Scotland shouldna take a gun frae me or I had weized the slugs through him, though I'm but sic a little feckless body, fit for naething but the outside o' a saddle and the fore-end o' a poschay; na, na, nae living man wad venture on that.
Ay, I noticed she wasna nane awed when I said you was the Auld Licht minister. Weel, I'se uphaud that came frae her living ower muckle in the open air. Is there no' a smell o' burning in the house?" "I have noticed it," Gavin answered, sniffing, "since you came in. I was busy until then, putting on the kettle. The smell is becoming worse."
Each made his private comments on the scene they had witnessed, until Hobbie Elliot suddenly exclaimed, "Weel, I'll uphaud that yon ghaist, if it be a ghaist, has baith done and suffered muckle evil in the flesh, that gars him rampauge in that way after he is dead and gane." "It seems to me the very madness of misanthropy," said Earnscliff; following his own current of thought.
"Good God!" said I "so young, so beautiful, so early lost!" "Troth ye may say sae she's in a manner lost, body and saul; forby being a Papist, I'se uphaud her for" and his northern caution prevailed, and he was again silent. "For what, sir?" said I sternly. "I insist on knowing the plain meaning of all this." "On, just for the bitterest Jacobite in the haill shire."
There's a michty competition for them in the big toons. Ay, the leddies just stand at the college gates, as you may say, and snap them up as they come out." "And just as well for the ministers, I'se uphaud," said Tibbie, "for it saves them a heap o' persecution when they come to the like o' Thrums. There was Mr.
Richt or wrang aboot the women, I bude to ken mair aboot the men nor ye do; and I daur affirm and uphaud that never man cam' oot o' the grip o' thae poor deluded craters " Mrs Constable interposed with one single emphatic epithet, not admittable to the ears of this generation; but Andrew resumed, and went on.
They never give a patient the least credit for common sense." "I dinna ken, my lord," said Malcolm doubtfully. After a few minutes' silence, during which Malcolm thought he had fallen asleep, the marquis resumed abruptly. "What do you mean by giving you a legal right?" he said. "There's some w'y o' makin' ae body guairdian till anither, sae 'at the law 'll uphaud him isna there, my lord?"
Ay, I'se uphaud he's mair ashamed o't in his heart than she is. It's an awful like thing o' a lassie to marry an auld man. She had dune't for the siller. Ay, there's pounds' worth o' fur aboot that jacket." "They say she had siller hersel," said Tibbie Birse. "Dinna tell me," said Jess. "I ken by her wy o' carryin' hersel 'at she never had a jacket like that afore."
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