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Gien I ca'd ye a cooard, it was 'at ye behaved sae ill to Phemy. 'Eh, the bonny little Phemy! I had 'maist forgotten her! Hoo is she, Kirsty? 'She's weel and verra weel, answered Kirsty; 'she's deid. 'Deid! echoed Gordon, with a cry, again raising himself on his elbow. 'Surely it wasna it wasna 'at the puir wee thing cudna forget me! The thing's no possible! I wasna worth it!
It was painfully explained him that he was now in the Seminary, and within that door an anxious school was waiting for him Bailie MacConachie and his address. "Who said I wasna Bailie MacConachie, and that I was a drunken body? And the Bailie was evidently full awake. "Losh keeps, laddies, what am I saying? Family troubles shakes the mind.
'Div ye think me a cooard, Kirsty? 'No wi' men, answered the truthful girl, who would not lie even in ministration to a mind diseased. 'Maybe ye think I oucht to hae strucken ye back whan ye strack me? I wull be a cooard than, lat ye say what ye like. I never did, and I never will hit a lassie, lat her kill me! 'It wasna that, Francie.
The like o' Steenie wasna the sort that they made Whigs o'. And so he became a Tory, as they ca' it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other.
'You are not, then, by profession a soldier? said Waverley. 'Na, na; thank God, answered this doughty partizan, 'I wasna bred at sae short a tether, I was brought up to hack and manger.
Happen th' Lord knows what life wur give her fur I dunnot, but it's ower now an' happen she knows hersen'. I hurried here to-neet," she added, battling with a sob, "as soon as I heerd as she was missin', th' truth struck to my heart, an' I thowt as I should be here first, but I wasna I ha' not gotten no more to say."
Gie them the hymes, an' we'll hear Martyrdom nae mair, an' Coleshill an' Duke Street'll be by. For what did oor faithers dee if it wasna for the psalms o' Dauvit? An' they dee'd to the tunes I've named to ye." "But Mr. M'Cormack will admit," said Mr. Blake, "that many of God's people worship to profit with the hymns. There is the Episcopal church across the way.
I ken the gate o't weel; I hae fronted the doomster three times, and here I stand, Jim Ratcliffe, for a' that. Had I tied my napkin strait the first time, as I had a great mind till't and it was a' about a bit grey cowt, wasna worth ten punds sterling where would I have been now?"
He kept them along with his whipcord and best Sunday pocket knife, and sometimes he took a look at them when he had to move them in order to get his green necktie. "I never really likit a lass afore, Jess, ye may believe me, for I wasna a lad to rin after them. But whenever I cam' to Craig Ronald I saw that I was dune for."
Eh, sirs! the comely young lord is turned as auld and frail as I am: it's muckle that sorrow and heartbreak, and crossing of true love, will do wi' young blood. But suldna his mither hae lookit to that hersell? we were but to do her bidding, ye ken. I am sure there's naebody can blame me he wasna my son, and she was my mistress.
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