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"Hold your whisht," said his wife sharply; "it is not your business to check the girl; she is a good servant to you." "What, is the cock never to crow, and the hens at it all day?" "You can crow as loud as you like, my man out o' doors. But the hen means to rule the roost." "I know a byword to that tune." said Gerard. "Do ye, now? out wi't then."
That's between themselves and God, as he's said to me many a time." "Aye, aye; but he's none so fond o' your dissenters, for all that." "Maybe; I'm none so fond o' Josh Tod's thick ale, but I don't hinder you from making a fool o' yourself wi't." There was a laugh at this thrust of Adam's, but Seth said, very seriously. "Nay, nay, Addy, thee mustna say as anybody's religion's like thick ale.
Jarvie took the money in silence, and weighing it in his hand for an instant, laid it on the table, and replied, "Rob, I canna tak it I downa intromit with it there can nae gude come o't I hae seen ower weel the day what sort of a gate your gowd is made in ill-got gear ne'er prospered; and, to be plain wi' you, I winna meddle wi't it looks as there might be bluid on't."
No, I cannot," she continued, with an appearance of rage against herself; "I have thought of it I have tried it but, Francis Levitt, I canna gang through wi't Na, na he was the first bairn I ever nurst ill I had been and man can never ken what woman feels for the bairn she has held first to her bosom!"
And there's ae thing maybe mair, but ye'll think it's very bald o' the like o' me to speak o't." "What is it, Edie? if it respects you it shall be done if it is in my power." "It respects yoursell, and it is in your power, and I maun come out wi't.
"This woman's kin wouldn't like her to demean herself to a common carpenter." "Tchu!" said Ben, with a long treble intonation, "what's folks's kin got to do wi't? Not a chip. Poyser's wife may turn her nose up an' forget bygones, but this Dinah Morris, they tell me, 's as poor as iver she was works at a mill, an's much ado to keep hersen.
I tell 't him I never had nowt to dae wi' sulphur i' ma life, an' I wudna begin to bother wi't noo;" and Archie lifted his eyebrows, adjusted his night-cap, and turned upon me a very solemn smile. He doubtless saw by my face that I approved his caution, for I secretly believed that he was right.
Should the master catch sight of an idler, or practical joker, he would throw the strap to the delinquent as a sign that a thrashing was due, and the boy or girl had to come up to his table and receive the punishment. "Some wad be stiff to come up wi't, ye ken," explained Willy; "but he'd niver let a loon off, though he wes mair merciful-like to the wee lassies.
Weel, than, to mak' a lang story short, Setarday nicht cam', and the magic lantern wi't. Dod, but Sandy had a gey efternune o't. He was steerin' aboot, carryin' in soap boxes for seats to the bairns, an' learnin' up his leed aboot the pictures, an' orderin' aboot Nathan; ye never heard the like!
'I ha' telled thee many a time that she and me is like brother and sister. She's no more thought on me nor I have for her. So be content wi't, for I'se not tell thee again. 'Don't be vexed, Philip; if thou knew what it was to be in love, thou'd be always fancying things, just as I am. 'I might be, said Philip; 'but I dunnut think I should be always talking about my fancies.
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