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"We dine at two here, gentlemen, and sup at eight. This is not the Star and Garter," said he as he left us. It was the captain who spoke first, though he swallowed twice before the words came out. "Come, Richard, come, laddie," he said, "'tis no so bad it micht-na be waur. We'll mak the maist o' it."
An hour or two later, it might be, two men, Adam Hislop and William Wallace, were noisily steering a somewhat devious and uncertain course homeward, when one of them tripped over a bulky object huddled on the ground, and with an astonished curse fell heavily. "What the de'il's that? Guide us, it's a man! Some puir body the waur o' his drink, ah'm thinkin'. Haud up, maister!
You are no very strong, you ken, an' if you worry it'll mak' you waur. You should raither try an' bear up, an' get strong, an' maybe gang an' see him. He'd be awfu' prood to see you, an' so wad your mither." "No, no," she cried. "I canna gang. It wad kill them to see me noo, an' I couldna bear't, if they should be angry wi' me. I couldna face their anger, Rob."
I have heard since that his heart was entirely set against me; he had seen me kneel to the ladies, and diagnosed me for a "gesterin' eediot." "So, ye're for England, are ye?" said he. I told him yes. "Weel, there's waur places, I believe," was his reply; and he relapsed into a silence which was not broken during a quarter of an hour of steady walking.
I hae little doobt the maister'll be the better for't; but gin ye be the waur, it'll be an ill job, Alec, my man." "I hae no ill-will at him, Thomas." "Weel, jist watch yer ain hert, and bewaur ye o' that. I wad coonsel ye to try and please him a grainie mair nor ordinar'. It's no that easy to the carnal man, but ye ken we ought to crucify the auld man, wi' his affections and lusts."
"I ken mair aboot thae things than you, fully; an', though I am a tattie man, look at Abraham Linkin; he was waur than a tattie man to begin wi'; an' the Jook o' Wellinton michty, he was born in Ireland; an' look what he cam' till! I tell you what it is, Bawbie, if they'd haen me at the battle o' Waterloo, you wudda heard anither story o't.
The look with which Robin looked at Swaby, as he said this, dismayed the gallant cavalier, who cried, gazing back at Mysie, who was hirpling homeward "The devil! is she one of that sort?" "I'll no say what she is, nor what others say o' her," replied Robin with solemnity; "but ye'll no fare the waur that ye stand weel in her liking."
Quoth the stalwart maid who brought me my porridge and bade me 'eat them while they were hot, 'Ay, they were a' on the ran-dan last nicht! Hout! they're fine lads, and they'll be nane the waur of it. Forby Farbes's coat. I dinna see wha's to get the creish off that! she added, with a sigh; in which, identifying Forbes as the torch- bearer, I mentally joined.
Clinging to his benefactor, Elliot rose to his feet and stumbled forward as swiftly as his shaking limbs permitted. 'Whaur is he? he inquired tremulously, keeking about fearfully. 'Wha d' ye mean? replied the Minister. 'Is 't "Parcy" ye hae seen? 'Waur nor that; waur nor that, replied the other. 'I believe 'twas him. 'Anither fifty yards an' we'll be hame, said the Minister.
"What the devil is the matter?" said he, starting up in his bed "womankind in my room at this hour of night! are ye all mad?" "The beacon, uncle!" said Miss M'Intyre. "The French coming to murder us!" screamed Miss Griselda. "The beacon! the beacon! the French! the French! murder! murder! and waur than murder!" cried the two handmaidens, like the chorus of an opera. The Antiquary Arming
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