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An' the first nicht 'at the win' 's up an' awa', dee the same, mem, wi' the win'. Get up upo' the back o' 't, like, as gien it was yer muckle horse, an' jist ride him to the deith; an' efter that, gien ye dinna maybe jist wuss 'at ye was a burn or a blawin' win' aither wad be a sair loss to the universe ye wunna, I'm thinkin', be sae ready to fin' fau't wi' the chield 'at made yon bit sangy."
She squeaked with affright till she saw who it was, and then turned her note into a gurgle of astonishment. "Are you alone?" I asked. She nodded. "Just a minute then, and I'll be back again, with a visitor. Keep quiet!" I returned to the boat, and as I was obliged to move as stealthily as a cat, I could not help, as I approached, hearing Joe say emphatically, "I wunna."
He had read it in his pleasant, half-educated voice, dramatically and tenderly; his cheeks had flushed; he had challenged her criticism with keen, attentive eyes. She had said: 'I wonder if that's our Foxy barking, or a strange 'un? Hazel looked long from her window that night. 'Oh, I canna go! I canna go! Ed'ard setting store by me and all! she said. 'Maybe the other signs wunna come.
"I hae nae grand friends," said Jeanie; "nae friends but what are friends of yours Reuben Butler and my father. O unhappy lassie, dinna be dour, and turn your back on your happiness again! We wunna see another acquaintance Come hame to us, your ain dearest friends it's better sheltering under an auld hedge than under a new-planted wood."
Ye can du naething for him wi' that face o' his, but oot comes the trouth as to the father o' 'im; an' it wadna be lang afore the tale was ekit oot wi' the name o' his mither Mistress Catanach wad see to that, gien 'twas only to spite me; an' I wunna hae my Grizel ca'd what she is not, for ony lord's dauchter i' the three kynriks."
I wunna fret the tender conscience of one bairn no, not to save the life of the other." A Roman would have devoted his daughter to death from different feelings and motives, but not upon a more heroic principle of duty. To man, in this his trial state, The privilege is given, When tost by tides of human fate, To anchor fast on heaven. Watts's Hymns.
'Don't know. But feyther said last Wakes I was fourtane. I mun keep young for Jack. He wunna have me if I'm owd. 'But he'll be hanged, they say. She gave a short, satisfied laugh. 'Not now he's drunk Licksy hangman won't get him. I heard a man say Jack 'd get off wi' twenty year for manslaughter, most like. 'And you'll wait twenty years for him?
The curate is playing at dice wi' Cornet Grahame. Be eident and civil to them baith clergy and captains can gie an unco deal o' fash in thae times, where they take an ill-will. The dragoons will be crying for ale, and they wunna want it, and maunna want it they are unruly chields, but they pay ane some gate or other.
'D'you think Andrew Vessons'll let an 'ooman trapse in the snow when he's got good horses in stable? queried Vessons grandly. 'I'll drive yer. 'I'm much obleeged, I'm sure, said Hazel. 'But wunna he know? 'He'll sleep till noon if I let 'im, said Andrew. They drove off in silence, the snow muffling the plunging hoofs. Hazel looked back as the sky crimsoned for dawn.
To this also Hazel assented so delightedly that the cornet pushed back his chair and went to another table with a sardonic laugh. But his remarks were drowned by a voice which proclaimed: 'All the years I've bin to suppers I've 'ad tartlets! To-night they wunna go round. I've paid the same as others. Tartlets I'll 'ave! 'But the plate's empty, said Martha, flushed and determined.
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