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"Granted," answered Bucklaw; "but I care not a penny for her tocher; I have enough of my own." "And the mother, that loves you like her own child?" "Better than some of her children, I believe," said Bucklaw, "or there would be little love wared on the matter." "And Colonel Sholto Douglas Ashton, who desires the marriage above all earthly things?"
"Indeed, my sweet leddy," said the gaberlunzie, "ye maun just trust that bit secret to auld Edie's grey pow, and ask nae questions about it. Certainly if I wad hae wared my life for you yon night, I can hae nae reason to play an ill pliskie t'ye in the day o' your distress." "Well, Edie, follow me then," said Miss Wardour, "and I will try to get you sent to Tannonburgh."
Obey my words, that when ye lay the moulds on my head and, oh that the day were come! ye may remember this hour without the reproach of having disobeyed the last earthly command that ever your mother wared on you."
Obey my words, that when ye lay the moulds on my head and, oh that the day were come! ye may remember this hour without the reproach of having disobeyed the last earthly command that ever your mother wared on you."
His first thought was that he had wared £89 on his enemy's fine clothes, and James loved gold and hated foppish, extravagant dress; his next that he had saved Andrew Starkie £89, and he knew the old usurer was quietly laughing at his folly.
And, alas! we love too well to be so. O but grace be ill wared on us who carry so unworthily with it as we do; yet it is well with the gracious soul that he is under grace's tutory and care; for grace will care for him when he careth not much for it, nor yet seeth well to his own welfare; grace can and will prevent, yea, must prevent, afterward, as well as at the first; that grace may be grace, and appear to be grace, and continue unchangeably to be grace, and so free grace.
It was just, "Will ye tak' the test?" If not "Make ready present fire!" and there lay the recusant. Far and wide was Sir Robert hated and feared. The best blessing they wared on him was, "Deil scowp wi' Redgauntlet!"
"What signifies coming to greet ower me," said poor Effie, "when you have killed me? killed me, when a word of your mouth would have saved me killed me, when I am an innocent creature innocent of that guilt at least and me that wad hae wared body and soul to save your finger from being hurt?"
He raised himself cautiously on his elbow, and beheld the girl of the water-pails standing in the full sunshine with her lilac sunbonnet in her hand. She wared it high above her head, then she paused a moment to look right in his direction under her hand held level with her brows.
Cot, an ony of the vermint had come there, her father wad hae wared a shot on them, and he could hit a buck within as mony measured yards as e'er a man of his clan, And the place here was so quiet frae them, they durst na put their nose ower the gutter.
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