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And then you tell me you're going straight out of my office to make your peace with the Advocate! Alan's button here or Alan's button there, the four quarters of Alan wouldnae bribe me further in." "I would take it with a little more temper," said I, "and perhaps we can avoid what you object to.
It sticks in my head; I would maybe like it better to stay here and hing." "Ay, but ye wouldnae, Alan," said I. "No but what France is a good place too," he explained; "but it's some way no the same. It's brawer, I believe, but it's no Scotland. I like it fine when I'm there, man; yet I kind of weary for Scots divots and the Scots peat-reek."
We had no sooner come to the door of Mr. Then he had a hearty fit of sneezing, and looked round upon me with a rather silly smile. "It's a vow I took," says he. "I took a vow upon me that I wouldnae carry it. Doubtless it's a great privation; but when I think upon the martyrs, not only to the Scottish Covenant but to other points of Christianity, I think shame to mind it."
He tried the prayer, an' the words wouldnae come to him; an' he tried, they say, to write at his book, but he couldnae mak' nae mair o' that. There was whiles he thocht the black man was at his oxter, an' the swat stood upon him cauld as well-water; and there was other whiles when he cam' to himsel' like a christened bairn and minded naething.
I cried, "what of him?" "What of the wind that bloweth where it listeth?" said Henderland. "He's here and awa; here to-day and gone to-morrow: a fair heather-cat. He might be glowering at the two of us out of yon whin-bush, and I wouldnae wonder! Ye'll no carry such a thing as snuff, will ye?" I told him no, and that he had asked the same thing more than once.
"I don't see." "Hut, David!" said Alan, "ye wouldnae grudge me a loan?" I would, though, if I had had my senses! But all I thought of then was to get his face away, and I handed him my money.
Firstly, because I havenae got the courage and wouldnae daur; and secondly, because I am a man of so much penetration and would see ye damned first." "It's there ye're coming, is it?" I cried. "Ah, man Alan, you can wile your old wives, but you never can wile me." Remembrance of my temptation in the wood made me strong as iron. "I have a tryst to keep," I continued.
Five days before the trial, September the sixteen, get word to me at the King Arms in Stirling; and if ye've managed for yourself as long as that, I'll see that ye reach Inverary." "One thing more," said I. "Can I no see Alan?" He seemed boggled. "Hech, I would rather you wouldnae," said he.
It sticks in my head; I would maybe like it better to stay here and hing." "Ay, but ye wouldnae, Alan," said I. "No, but what France is a good place too," he explained; "but it's some way no the same. It's brawer I believe, but it's no Scotland. I like it fine when I'm there, man; yet I kind of weary for Scots divots and the Scots peat-reek."
And then you tell me you're going straight out of my office to make your peace with the Advocate! Alan's button here or Alan's button there, the four quarters of Alan wouldnae bribe me further in." "I would take it with a little more temper," said I, "and perhaps we can avoid what you object to.
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