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He never was a doonricht leear, sae lang's I kenned him ony mair nor yersel! But, for God's sake, Phemy, dinna imagine he'll ever merry ye, for that he wull not. 'This is really insufferable! cried Phemy, in a voice that began to tremble from the approach of angry tears. 'Pray, have you a claim upon him? 'Nane, no a shedow o' ane, returned Kirsty.
It's a sorrowful thing I'm lame an' can na' gang wi' ye. What are ye doin', Hester?" "I'm hunting for the newspaper. Don't they put the railroad time-tables in the paper over here, or must I go to the station to inquire about trains?" "Ye'd better ask at the station. I'll go wi' ye. Ye might boggle it by yersel'. Ring for Tillie, Jean.
"Here's the bit dog I was tellin' ye aboot; an' see for yersel' what he's done noo." "The wee beastie couldna do a' that! It's as muckle as his ain wecht in fou' vermin!" she cried. "Ay, he did. Thae terriers are sperity, by the ordinar'. Ane o' them, let into the corn exchange a murky nicht, killed saxty in ten meenits, an' had to be dragged awa' by the tail.
I cannot say when he first determined that Jess should have a cloak, come the money as it liked, for he was too ashamed of his weakness to admit his project to me. I remember, however, his saying to Jess one day: "I'll warrant you could mak a cloak yersel the marrows o' thae eleven and a bits, at half the price?" "It would cost," said Jess, "sax an' saxpence, exactly.
"Davy," he said "I don't want you to be all day on board, but I can't have you be longer away than an hour at a time," "Ay, ay, sir," said Davy. "Now attend to me." "Ay, ay, sir." "Do you know Lady Lossie's house?" "No, sir; but I ken hersel'." "How is that?" "I ha'e seen her mair nor twa or three times, ridin' wi' yersel', to yon hoose yon'er." "Would you know her again?" "Ay wad I fine that.
"I saw ye come oot o' Professor Fraser's," said Cupples, "and I thocht a bit dauner i' the caller air wad do me no ill; sae I jist cam' efter ye." Then changing his tone, he added, "Alec, man, haud a grip o' yersel'. Dinna tyne that Lowse onything afore ye lowse haud o' yersel'." "What do you mean, Mr Cupples?" asked Alec, not altogether willing to understand him. "Ye ken weel eneuch what I mean.
I can aye learn what I hunger for, an' what ye dinna desire ye'll never learn. Thanks to yersel' an' Maister Simon, ye hae putten me i' the w'y o' that! It's no kennin' things it's kennin' things upo' the ro'd ye gang,'at 's o' consequence to ye. The lave I mak naething o'." "But a time micht come whan ye wad want mony a thing ye micht hae learnt afore."
Often would I tell my dear Miss Jeannie that was your mother, dear, she was cruel ta'en up about her hair, it was unco' tender, ye see 'Houts, Miss Jeannie, I would say, 'just fling your washes and your French dentifrishes in the back o' the fire, for that's the place for them; and awa' down to a burn side, and wash yersel' in cauld hill water, and dry your bonny hair in the caller wind o' the muirs, the way that my mother aye washed hers, and that I have aye made it a practice to have wishen mines just you do what I tell ye, my dear, and ye'll give me news of it!
We talked it all over that nicht 'twas late, I'm tellin' ye, before we quit and crept into bed, and even then we talked on a bit, in the dark. "Ye maun please yersel', Harry," Nance said. "We've thought of every thing, and it can do no harm to try. If things don't go well, ye can always go back to the pit and mak' a living." That was so, ye ken. I had my trade to fall back upon.
"It's a great work, Bob, you ha'e set yersel', an' it'll mean thenklessness an' opposition frae the very men you want maist to help," said Sinclair as they talked. "Ay, it will," was the reply, spoken in a half dreamy tone, as if the speaker saw into the future. "I ken what it'll mean, but it must be done.
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