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"And now we're settled ance mair," said: Cuddie to his mother, "and if we're no sae bien and comfortable as we were up yonder, yet life's life ony gate, and we're wi' decent kirk-ganging folk o' your ain persuasion, mither; there will be nae quarrelling about that." "Of my persuasion, hinnie!" said the too-enlightened Mause; "wae's me for thy blindness and theirs.
In this terrible distraction did I scour the country; here meeting with a shoal of Scots crying out, 'Wae's me! We're a' undone! and so full of lamentations and mourning, as if their day of doom had overtaken them, and from which they knew not whither to fly.
And here, some conviction half-overcoming the reveries of her imagination, she burst into a fit of crying and ejaculation, "Wae's me! wae's me! wae's me!" till at length she moaned and sobbed herself into a deep sleep, which was soon intimated by her breathing hard, leaving Jeanie to her own melancholy reflections and observations.
"O sir," said Jeanie, "did the Scripture never come into your mind, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay it?" "Scripture! Why, I had not opened a Bible for five years," answered Staunton. "Wae's me, sirs," said Jeanie "and a minister's son too!" "It is natural for you to say so; yet do not interrupt me, but let me finish my most accursed history.
I am highly flattered by the news you tell me of Coila. I may say to the fair painter who does me so much honour, as Dr. Ye shak your head, but o' my fegs, Ye've set auld Scota on her legs; Lang had she lien wi' beffs and flegs, Bumbaz'd and dizzie, Her fiddle wanted strings and pegs, Wae's me, poor hizzie. MAUCHLINE, 7th March 1788.
"The will o' the Lord maun be done," said Meg; "but wae's me! there was mony an auld gimmer in Leslie, whose horns are weel marked wi' the lines o' her evil days, that Clootie might hae taen, afore he cam to the bonnie ewe that had only tasted the first leaves o' her simmer girse. What did Marion Webster ever do in this warld to bring upon her this warst and last o' the evils o' mortals?"
Jupe, and her husband is something in a club, and she has one child of eleven, whose bedfellow I am to be, and here I am now with Miss Slyboots in our little bedroom feeling safe and sound and monarch of all I survey. "Good-night, good people! Half an hour hence I'll be going through a mad march of the incidents of the day, turned topsy-turvy according to the way of dreams. But wae's me! wae's me!
"Nae mair do I!" said the soutar; "but I doobt the ane that lee'd to the ither, maun hae to be coontit the warst!" "There canna be mony sic men!" said Maggie. "'Deed there's a heap o' them no a hair better!" rejoined her father; "but wae's me for the puir lassie that believes them!" "She kenned what was richt a' the time, father!"
"O sir," said Jeanie, "did the Scripture never come into your mind, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay it?" "Scripture! Why, I had not opened a Bible for five years," answered Staunton. "Wae's me, sirs," said Jeanie "and a minister's son too!" "It is natural for you to say so; yet do not interrupt me, but let me finish my most accursed history.
There seemed something magical in the communication something that awakened all the sympathies of the poor bereaved woman; and she felt she could forgive him every unkindness. "Wae's me!" she exclaimed, "it was in such a night as this, an' scarcely sae wild, that my Earnest perished." The old man groaned and wrung his hands.
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