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Oh! sirs! but I canna get on ava" Here Janet sorted her wheel, and apparently shed a tear, for she moved her apron corner to her eye. "Aweel, this was the nicht o' the wedding, bairn no this nicht, like; but I think I just see it present, for I was there mysel, a wee bit whilking lassie.
"Ay, hae ye no? Aweel, then, its nae matter," said the dame. "But what tales are there, Mrs. Ross?" uneasily inquired the heiress. And then she instantly perceived the indiscretion of her question, and regretted that she had asked it. "Ou aye, it's just the fule talk o' thae gossips up by Ben Lone.
"God is the only father of the fatherless," said Deans, touching his bonnet and looking upwards. "Give honour where it is due, gudewife, and not to an unworthy instrument." "Aweel, that's your way o' turning it, and nae doubt ye ken best; but I hae ken'd ye, Davie, send a forpit o' meal to Beersheba when there wasna a bow left in the meal-ark at Woodend; ay, and I hae ken'd ye."
"And what concern have you with her?" replied the marauder. "That," retorted Earnscliff, "you, who are detaining her by force, have no right to enquire." "Aweel, I think I can gie a guess," said the robber.
"And had just cruppen to the gallows' foot to see the hanging, as was natural for a wean; and what for mightna she hae been shot as weel as the rest o' them, and where wad we a' hae been then? "Report says," answered Butler, "that such a circumstance would not have distressed her majesty beyond endurance." "Aweel," said Mrs.
"Aweel, sir, ye'll choose for yoursell, to be sure," said Niel Blane, somewhat disconcerted; "but deil a guide ye'll need if ye gae doun the water for twa mile or sae, as gin ye were bound for Milnwoodhouse, and then tak the first broken disjasked-looking road that makes for the hills, ye'll ken 't by a broken ash-tree that stands at the side o' a burn just where the roads meet; and then travel out the path, ye canna miss Widow Maclure's public, for deil another house or hauld is on the road for ten lang Scots miles, and that's worth twenty English.
"Aweel, Reuben," said Jeanie, "ye maun just look up a text in Scripture, as ye did when ye wanted siller before just look up a text in the Bible." "Ah, Jeanie," said Butler, laughing and pressing her hand at the same time, "the best people in these times can only work miracles once."
It will be lang or the King sends me ony thing, or Frank Kennedy either. And then ye would quarrel with these gipsies too! I expect every day to hear the barnyard's in a low. 'I tell you once more, my dear, you don't understand these things- -and there's Frank Kennedy coming galloping up the avenue. 'Aweel! aweel!
'Weel, aweel, sirs, said Jabos, whose hard-headed and uncultivated shrewdness seemed sometimes to start the game when others beat the bush 'weel, weel, ye may be a' mista'en yet; I'll never believe that a man would lay a plan to shoot another wi' his ain gun.
"Aweel, it may be sae; but we canna howk fort enow we hae nae shules, for they hae taen them a' awa and it's like some o' them will be sent back to fling the earth into the hole, and mak a' things trig again.
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