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'But surely ye're raisin' an awfu' excitement ower a pair o' socks. 'It wasna the socks, ye stupid: it was the fondest love! John laughed again, but less boisterously, 'Maggie's no blate, whaever she is. Did ye no speir at Macgreegor aboot her? 'Oh, man! ha'e ye nae sense? I jist tied up the paircel again an' left it on his bed. 'Weel, that ends it, John said comfortably.
But here again the benighted Southerner found himself brought up sharply against an unexpected phase of Scottish character, for Mrs Forsyth was distinctly on her high horse at the thought of being offered more than her due. She had her price; a fair-like price, she informed him loftily, and she stuck to it. She wasna the woman to make differences between one person and anither.
"Why," resumed MacGregor, "ye ken weel eneugh that women and gear are at the bottom of a' the mischief in this warld. I hae been misdoubting your cousin Rashleigh since ever he saw that he wasna to get Die Vernon for his marrow, and I think he took grudge at his Excellency mainly on that account.
Na, he couldna do't this time." "That's what ye aye say, but he aye sends. Yes, an' vara weel ye ken 'at he will send." "Na, na, Leeby; dinna let me ever think o' sic a thing this month." "As if ye wasna thinkin' o't day an' nicht!" "He's terrible mindfu', Leeby, but he doesna hae't. Na, no this month; mebbe next month."
All were walking the Sabbath pace, and the family having started half a minute in advance, the post had not yet made up on them. "It's sitting to snaw," Waster Lunny said, drawing near, and just as I was to reply, "It is so," Silva slipped in the words before me. "You wasna at the kirk," was Elspeth's salutation.
The young lady wasna my cousin at a' she had come to the wrang shop. She was a niece o' Willie Smith the haberdasher's and there was the mystery solved at ance. It turned oot precisely sae. There was an awfu kick-up, and an awfu rejoicin, and shakin o' hands, and writin o' letters, and sae forth, after I had announced to the different parties how the matter stood, and brocht them thegither.
She approached, looking doubtfully and timidly, now at us, now at the other party, and returned a hesitating and doubtful answer to our request to have something to eat. "She didna ken," she said, "she wasna sure there was onything in the house," and then modified her refusal with the qualification "that is, onything fit for the like of us."
Gibbie Glossin! that I have carried in my creels a hundred times, for his mother wasna muckle better than mysell he to presume to buy the barony of Ellangowan! Gude be wi' us; it is an awfu' warld! I wished him ill; but no sic a downfa' as a' that neither.
"Y' dunna want to be gawpin' around after pennies when there's guineas to be picked up," she replied, with a toss of her head. "Struth, I wish at times I wasna quite so pretty. There's some men, bless you, I know one myself, such fools that they think a pretty wench doesna want kissin'. But, sartin sure, there's never been the like of 'er ladyship in Newcastle in my time.
"He wasna here when it came. I havena heard from him and I dinna want to hear from him. It was Belle Lorrigan gave the piano, as I've said a million times. And I shall pay for it " "Not from your ain pocket will ye pay.
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