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Updated: May 6, 2025
"They said the truth whaever said it," answered old Edie; "she was buried yestreen by torch-light at St. Ruth's, and I, like a fule, gat a gliff wi' seeing the lights and the riders."
"That is true," said Tam, "but it was a damn'd shame to tak' the auld man's pig awa', whaever did it. But I hear them saying that the polisman is gaun to the farm the nicht to watch, so that the tatties 'll no' be stolen," he went on, as some of the younger men joined them, "an' I suppose that the puir polisman hasna' a bit o' coal left in his coal-house.
"It's mair likely," said Chirsty, "to be the factor at the Spittal's lassie. The factor has a grand garden, and that would account for such basketfuls o' flowers." "Whaever she is," said Birse, "I'm thinking he could hae done better." "I'll be fine pleased wi' ony o' them," said Tibbie, who had a magenta silk, and so was jealous of no one.
"Hout, ye daft gowk, ye'll ne'er turn wise! Could ye no hae loupen on it, and ridden it?" "I'll mind that again," quo' Jock. Aweel, there was a grand gentleman, wha had a daughter wha was very subject to melancholy; and her father gae out that whaever should mak' her laugh would get her in marriage.
Ye're jist a gey bonnie lassie, siclike as mony anither; but gien ye war a' glorious within, like the queen o' Sheba, or whaever she may happen to hae been, there wad be naething to be prood o' i' that, seem ye didna contrive yersel. No ae stane, to bigg yersel, hae ye putten upo' the tap o' anither! Phemy was nowise capable of understanding such statement and deduction.
But Malcolm had gone to his own room, and hearing some one in the next, half suspected who it was, and went in. Seeing the closet door open, he hurried to the stair, and shouted, "My lord! my lord! or whaever ye are! tak care hoo ye gang, or ye'll get a terrible fa'."
'It was th' auld enemy that ye forgathered wi' on th' ice, an' ye are his until ye can kill th' king o' th' geese; an' then ye ken whaever carries his croun o' black an' white feathers can unnerstand th' language o' all fowl, an', wha' is more, call them to himsel', sae that he canna' fail to hae his wull o' them.
'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.
"Ye never was the mither, whaever was the father o' me!" he said, and walked out of the room. He had scarcely reached the door, when he heard a heavy fall, and looking round saw the lady lying motionless on the floor.
"Because it was nae woman's fingers that broke up the bolts an' the locks that were torn open that night." "Very pertinent, Bessy. Come then within the bar, and look, at these articles on the table. Did you ever see these silver spoons before?" "I hae seen some very like them, and whaever has seen siller spoons has done the same." "Can you swear you never saw them before?"
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