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One Saturday night Willy Liston's evil star ordained that a gentleman of French origin and Spanish dress, called Gil Blas, should be the Johnstone's companion. Willy Liston arrived. Christie, who had bolted the door, told him from the window, civilly enough, but decidedly, "She would excuse his company that night." "Vara weel," said Willy, and departed. Next Saturday no Willy came.
A staff-officer of General Vara del Rey said to a correspondent after the battle: "I have never seen anything to equal the courage and dash of those Americans, who, stripped to the waist, offering their naked breasts to our murderous fire, literally threw themselves on our trenches on the very muzzles of our guns.
"Mother, dear," said the son, "I wouldn't wish to go agin what you'd say; but I made a promise to myself to 'rise yez out of your poverty if I can, an' my mind's made up on it; so don't cross me, or be the manes of my havin' bad luck on my journey, in regard of me goin' aginst yer will, when you know 'twould be the last thing I wish to do." "Let the gossoon take his way, Vara.
Six or seven foot o' dead watter in the engine-room is a vara depressin' sight if ye think there's like to be more comin'; but I did not consider that such was likely, and so, yell note, I was not depressed." "That's all very well, but I want to know about the water," I said. "I've told ye. There was six feet or more there, wi' Calder's cap floatin' on top." "Where did it come from?"
"Weel, in the confusion o' things after the propeller had dropped off an' the engines were racin' an' a', it's vara possible that Calder might ha' lost it off his head an' no troubled himself to pick it up again. I remember seem' that cap on him at Southampton." "I don't want to know about the cap.
"Says Bell, shufflin' the envelopes when the auld man had gone ashore: 'We're to creep round a' the south coast, standin' in for orders his weather, too. There's no question o' his lunacy now. "Well, we buttocked the auld Kite along vara bad weather we made standin' in all alongside for telegraphic orders, which are the curse o' skippers.
He did himsel a main deal o' harm wi' sic-like by a discourse some time gane ye'll judge what like it was when I tell ye the Scripture it was on: `He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. And there's a gey lot of folks i' this warld 'd like vara weel to abide, but they're a hantle too lazy to walk.
It's a think 'at spouts oot o' its ain accord. Some of the maist humorous things I've ever said cam oot, as a body may say, by themsels." "I suppose that's the case," said T'nowhead, "an' yet it maun be you 'at brings them up?" "There's no nae doubt aboot its bein' the case," said Tammas, "for I've watched mysel often. There was a vara guid instance occurred sune after I married Easie.
At the offices of the diligencias in various towns on the great road from Cordova to Madrid he left word for Concepcion Vara to follow, should the spirit of travel be still upon him, knowing that at these places where travellers were ever passing, the tittle-tattle of the road was on the tongue of every ostler and stable help.
You may bring him to the little back-gate; and I shall have pleasure, in the meanwhile, in looking on the bushes and evergreens by the bright frosty moonlight." "Vara right, vara right that's what I hae aften said; a kail-blade, or a colliflour, glances sae glegly by moonlight, it's like a leddy in her diamonds." So saying, off went Andrew Fairservice with great glee.
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