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But ye ken, sir, I'm like a wheen guid-natured, honest, canty auld fellows my bark is waur nor my bite. To hear me, ye micht whiles fancy I was a wee thing dour; but na, na! it's a kind auld fallow at heart, Sandie Sprott! And ye could never imagine the fyke and fash this man has been to me."
Would you drive me mad with your gibberish?" cried his lordship, getting up, and going to the window. "Ow, na, my lord!" returned Grizzie quietly; "mad's mad, but there's waur nor mad." "Grizzie!" said the laird, and she did not speak again.
An' as it fell oot, it was a fearsome nicht o' win' an' drivin' snaw waur, I wad reckon, nor onything we hae hereawa'. But he turnt na aside for win' or snaw, for little cared he what cam til 'im or o' 'im, wi' sic a how in his hert.
" But the Fisky 'ill be waur to get a grip o' nor Nancy here," he added, turning suddenly upon the plumpest girl in the place, who stood next to him. She foiled him however of the kiss he had thought to snatch, and turned the laugh from herself upon him, so cleverly avoiding his clutch that he staggered into the road, and nearly fell upon his nose.
That is to say, his great-grandfather was son of the Laird of Raeburn, who was grandson of Walter Scott of Harden and the 'Flower of Yarrow. The great-grandson, 'Beardie, acquired that cognomen by letting his beard grow like General Dalziel, though for the exile of James II., instead of the death of Charles I. 'whilk was the waur reason, as Sir Walter himself might have said.
He hastened to assure Waverley, therefore, with more words than he usually employed, that he had 'keepit ta sidier roy haill, and that he wasna a plack the waur since the fery moment when his honour forbad her to gie him a bit clamhewit wi' her Lochaber-axe.
They are feared for this, and they are scrupulous about that, and they arena free to tell a lie, though it may be for the benefit of the city; and they dinna like to be out at irregular hours, and in a dark cauld night, and they like a clout ower the crown far waur; and sae between the fear o' God, and the fear o' man, and the fear o' getting a sair throat, or sair banes, there's a dozen o' our city-folk, baith waiters, and officers, and constables, that can find out naething but a wee bit skulduddery for the benefit of the Kirk treasurer.
Mannering, that these free-traders, whom the law calls smugglers, having no religion, make it all up in superstition; and they have as many spells, and charms, and nonsense " "Vanity and waur!" said the Dominie "it is a trafficking with the Evil One. Spells, periapts, and charms, are of his device choice arrows out of Apollyon's quiver." Mannering cannot get in a word for ye! and so, Mr.
'If a were as young as once a were nay, lad, if a had na these sore rheumatics, now a reckon as t' press-gang 'ud find out as t' shouldn't do such things for nothing. Bless thee, man! it's waur nor i' my youth i' th' Ameriky war, and then 't were bad enough.
Luckie Howatson is very expeditious; there was ance a lass that was in that way she did not live far from hereabouts ye needna shake your head and groan, Dominie I am sure the kirk dues were a' weel paid, and what can man do mair? it was laid till her ere she had a sark ower her head; and the man that she since wadded does not think her a pin the waur for the misfortune. They live, Mr.
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