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Updated: June 19, 2025
"I willna gang," he exclaimed, "till ony kirk that pits oot the token at the sacrament, and taks up wi' they bit cairds they're usin' the noo. Cairds at the sacrament! it's fair insultin' to the Almichty." I parried the blow as best I could, and was on the verge of winning in the argument when he suddenly took another tack. "Forbye, I hae dune ma duty.
Candlish repeatedly congratulated himself on having left 'the watch at home with the mistress'; and Sim perpetually brandished his cudgel, and cursed his ill-fortune that it should be sprung. 'I willna care a damn to gie the daashed scoon'rel a fair clout wi' it, he said. 'The daashed thing micht come sindry in ma hand.
'Never fash yoursel'. The bairn willna be a hair the waur, and 'tis better so than that he shuld rax a' our craigs. Yusuf's peril was so much the greater, that it was impossible to object to any of his precautions, especially as he might take offence and throw the whole matter over; but it was impossible not to chafe secretly at the delay, which seemed incomprehensible.
Then she stilled it, and Allan saw that the hand she laid upon it trembled violently. "You should gae hame, sir; and you should be as plain and trustful wi' your cousin, as you hae been wi' me. Tell the leddy just hoo you love her, and ask her to tak' you, even though you arena deserving o' her. Your fayther canna blame you if she willna be your wife.
Sending a love-sick lad on sic a fool's errand. And mair, I'm not going to hae Isabel Strang, or Isabel Callendar here. A young woman wi' bridish ways dawdling about the house, I canna, and I willna stand. You'll hae to choose atween Deacon Strang's daughter and your auld cousin, Jenny Callendar."
The effort necessary gave a tone of defiance to his words. 'What for willna ye speik to me, grannie? he said. 'I'm no a haithen, nor yet a papist. 'Ye're waur nor baith in ane, Robert. 'Hoots! ye winna say baith, grannie, returned Robert, who, even at the age of fourteen, when once compelled to assert himself, assumed a modest superiority. 'Nane o' sic impidence! retorted Mrs. Falconer.
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