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"Do you think money is what he wants?" said a quiet little man, sitting lazily on a barrel, a clergyman, Vandyke; whom his clerical brothers shook their heads when they named, but never argued with, and bowed to with uncommon deference. The wool-buyer hesitated with a puzzled look. "No," he said, slowly; "Stephen Holmes is not miserly. I've knowed him since a boy. To buy place, power, perhaps, eh?
"Do you think money is what he wants?" said a quiet little man, sitting lazily on a barrel, a clergyman, whom his clerical brothers shook their heads when they named, but never argued with, and bowed to with uncommon deference. The wool-buyer hesitated with a puzzled look. "No," he said, slowly; "Stephen Holmes is not miserly. I've knowed him since a boy. To buy place, power, perhaps, eh?
Joan's too sharp for a trustin' feller like you. She'd run off with some wool-buyer before you'd been married a year." Mackenzie went across the hills next morning to relieve Reid of his watch over the sheep, feeling almost as simple as Dad and the rest of them believed him to be. He was too easy, he had been too easy all along.
A teem purse makes a bleat merchant. Ane year a Nurish, seven years a Daw. Ane ill word begets another, and it were at at the Bridge at London. A Wool-seller kens a Wool-buyer. Auld men are twice bairns. All fellows, Jock and the Laird. A hasty man never wanted woe. A silly bairn is eith to lear. As good merchant tines as wins. A racklesse hussy makes mony thieves. A hungry lowse bites fair.
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