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"Cudna ye fin' the twenty-third psalm?�-But jist ae thing mair, Mr Turnbull, and syne I'll haud my tongue," resumed Thomas.�-"Jeames Johnstone, will ye rin ower to my hoose, and fess the Bible? It's lyin' upo' the drawers. Ye canna mistak' it.�-Jist hae patience till he comes back, sir, and we'll see hoo Mr Bruce'll read the inscription.
A wuman micht du that, but a man, and special a wuman's ain ae son, canna weel du 't that is, gien there's ony ither coorse 'at can be followt. It seems to me ye maun tak the risk o' her bottle. And it may be no ill thing 'at she sud disgrace hersel oot and oot.
"Wad ye no tak up the carpets first, wuman?" he said. "I wad," she answered; "that gangs ohn speirt gien there was time; but I tell ye there's nane; an' ye'll buy twa or three carpets for the price o' ae horse." "Haith! the wuman's i' the richt," he cried, suddenly waking up to the sense of the proposal, and shot from the house.
MacOmish hed the face tae peety him wi' naebody but a hoosekeeper. He lat oot tae me though that the potatoes were as hard as a stone at denner, an' that he hed juist ae blanket on his bed, which wesna great management for four weemen." As Carmichael's aunt seemed to be more and more impressed, Margaret moistened her lips and rose higher.
He was fond of a lass and fond of a glass, and fond of a ran-dan; but I could never hear tell that he was muckle use for honest employment. Frae ae thing to anither, he listed at last for a sodger and was in the garrison of this fort, which was the first way that ony of the Dales cam to set foot upon the Bass. Sorrow upon that service!
"Yon puir lassie's feyther, no content wi' bein' just a plain man like ony ither miller, must needs try to mak a big fortune, and some o' thae speculatin' deils I canna ca' them by ony ither name got hand o' the auld man, an' ae fine day his fortune's awa the vera hoose he's livin' in no his ain, a' signed awa, an' he in debt.
"It wadna hae vexed him half sae muckle to hae been cheated out o' what might amaist be said to be won with the peril o' his craig, had it happened amang the Inglishers; but it was an unco thing to see hawks pike out hawks' e'en, or ae kindly Scot cheat anither.
'Haud your peace, gudeman, said Meg, looking sternly over her shoulder; 'is this a time or place for you to speak, think ye? 'But, my good friend, said Bertram, 'as I have no doubt in your good faith or kindness, which I have experienced, you should in return have some confidence in me; I wish to know where you are leading us. 'There's but ae answer to that, Henry Bertram, said the sibyl.
"And the weemen" here the housekeeper paused as one still lost in amazement at the audacity with which they had waylaid the helpless MacWheep "there wes ae madam in Muirtown that hed the face tae invite hersel' oot tae tea wi' three dochters, an' the way they wud flatter him on his sermons wes shamefu'. "If they didna begin askin' him tae stay wi' them on Presbytery days, and Mrs.
Eh, sic an accoont o' ye as I'll hae to gie to the mither o' ye whan I win to see her! For surely they'll lat me see her, though they may weel no think me guid eneuch to bide wi' her up there, for as lang as we was thegither doon here! Tell me, sir, what wad ye hae me du. But jist ae thing I maun say: gien I hadna dune as I did du, I do not see hoo we cud hae won throu' the winter."
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