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Aifter ye 've carried the bukes afore ae minister for five and thirty year, ye're no anxious for a change; naebody 'll ever come doon the kirkyaird like the Doctor, an' a' cudna brak ma step; na, na, there's no mony things a' michtna learn, but a' cudna brak ma step."
Eh! it's bonnie, woman; and I wiss ye had the sicht o' yer een to see't wi'; though ye do preten' to think little o' 't." "Weel, weel! my time's comin', Thamas; and I maun jist bide till it comes. Ye canna help me, I see that. Gin I could only open my een for ae minute, I wad ken a' aboot it, and be able to answer mysel'. I think we 'll gang into the hoose, for I canna bide it langer."
A bonny spot o' wark your tittie and you hae made out, murdering ae puir wean, and your light limmer of a sister's to be hanged for't, as weel she deserves! And the like o' you to come to ony honest man's house, and want to be into a decent bachelor gentleman's room at this time in the morning, and him in his bed! Gae wa', gae wa'!"
Human nature has limitations, and failure would have been no discredit to Elspeth. "They were sayin' at the Presbytery," Burnbrae reported, "that it hes mair than seeventy heads, coontin' pints, of coorse, and a' can weel believe it. Na, na, it's no tae be expeckit that Elspeth cud gie them a' aifter ae hearin'." Jamie Souter looked in to set his mind at rest, and Elspeth went at once to work.
Nae doot ye made certain ye hed escapit, but hed ye? A' leave it tae yirsel', for the answer is in yir body," and John examined Peter's wooden leg with an austere interest. "Ay, ay, ma man," he resumed for Peter was now quite silenced by this uncompromising interpretation of the ways of Providence "ye aff tae London, an' the Lord aifter ye, an' whuppit aff ae leg.
Ae thing I'm sure o' it's no siller!" "I'm sorry to hear it," rejoined the laird, with a faint smile and a little sigh. "Well, we're no worse off than we were, Cosmo! But poor Grizzle! she'll be dreadfully disappointed. Gie me the bit horsie, Jeames; we'll e'en tak' him hame again. It's no his fau't, puir thing,'at he 's no better nor he was made!"
" Well, but," he resumed, " about these fishermen: I'm only afraid Mr Cairns was right." "What said he, my lord?" "That, when they saw me there, they would fit their words to my ears." "I ken them better nor ony black coat atween Cromarty an' Peterheid; an' I can tell yer lordship there winna be ae word o' differ for your bein' there." "If only I could be there and not there both at once!
'I can weel tak yer word, replied Kirsty, ''at ye hae an engagement; but ye said a minute ago 'at ye was engaged til him: tell me in ae word has Francie Gordon promised to merry ye? 'He has as good as asked me, answered Phemy, who had fits of apprehensive recoil from a downright lie. 'Noo there I cud 'maist believe ye! Ay, that wud be ill eneuch for Francie!
Yet the thought did come into her head as she stretched in the warm gloom that Crimthann the son of Ae must be now attending her at Cluain da chaillech, and she thought of that young man as of something wonderful and very ridiculous, and the fact that he was waiting for her troubled her no more than if a sheep had been waiting for her or a roadside bush. She fell asleep.
The plaintiff had no seisin; he had no privileged possession; he had only a temporary occupancy, insufficient to warrant in his favor the presumption of property, which renders the annual possession so valuable. Well! this ae facto occupancy he has lost; another is invested with it: possession is in the hands of this new-comer.
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