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When he had done so "'Od, sir, ye seem to be greatly at your ease here," said Mr Adair, who was not a little surprised, with the others, as well he might, at the free and easy manner of his son-in-law in his friend's house, "You and your freen maun surely be unco intimate." "Oh! we certainly are so," replied Mr Mowbray, laughing. "I can use any freedom here the same as if I were in my own house."
I dinna see hoo, bein sic a freen' o' my father's, he sud objeck to my father's son! 'Eh, but laddies ir gowks! cried Kirsty. 'My father was your father's freen' for his sake, no for his ain! He thinks o' what wud be guid for you, no for himsel! 'Weel, but, persisted Gordon, 'it wud be mair for my guid nor onything ither he cud wuss for, to hae you for my wife!
But apparently there were others, for one day when a player for whom he was carrying asked him if he knew the Lord Justice-Clerk, who happened just then to be passing in a foursome, Sandy replied, "That's Lord Kingsbury, ye mean. O ay, he's a great freen' o' mine. Naebody kens his lordship better nor me. Thae's his breeks I've on."
'Maister Chairman, said Geordie, 'I'm aye for temperance in a' things. There was a shout of laughter, at which Geordie gazed round in pained surprise. 'I'll no' deny, he went on in an explanatory tone, 'that I tak ma mornin', an' maybe a nip at noon; an' a wee drap aifter wark in the evenin', an' whiles a sip o' toddy wi' a freen thae cauld nichts.
"How long have you been in the rock there?" "No ae meenute, my lord. I flang aff my butes to rin efter a freen', an' that's hoo ye didna hear me come up. I'm gaein' efter them noo, to gang hame i' them. Guid nicht, my lord. Guid nicht, my leddy." He turned and pursued his way; but Florimel's face, glimmering through the night, went with him as he ran.
"It's yer ain sae lang's I'm at the heid o' 's lordship's affairs." "Na; that canna be. He's boucht my time, an' he'll pey me for 't, an' he s' hae his ain." "Ye needna consider 'im mair nor rizzon: he's been nae freen' to you or yours." "What's that to the p'int?" "A' thing to the p'int wi' me here to haud it richt atween ye."
I am about to leave for my hunting grounds; but this time I am going to spend the winter upon a new part of them, where I have not hunted for years, and where game of all kinds will be plentiful. Therefore, I want you to give me liberal advances so that my hunt will not be hindered." "Pegs, Oo-koo-hoo, ma freen', yon's an auld, auld farrant.
Ech! it was worthy o' that auld tyrant, Jamie, to write his counter-blast to the poor man's freen! The hypocrite! to gang preaching the virtues o' evil-savoured smoke 'ad daemones abigendos, and then rail again tobacco, as if it was no as gude for the purpose as auld rags and horn shavings!"
"Ay! an' what micht that be?" "But she's maybe a freen' o' yours, Mrs Findlay? Some fowk likes her, though I canna say I'm ane o' them." "Freen' o' mine!" exclaimed the Partaness. "I wadna wonner! for they tellt me 'at saw her fechtin' i' the High Street wi' a muckle loon, near han' as big 's hersel'! an' haith, but Meg had the best o' 't, an' flang him intil the gutter, an' maist fellt him!
"But," she resumed, after a moment's pause, "a' lasses michtna ken sae weel what was fittin' them, nor care sae muckle what was guid for you; naebody livin' can ken ye as I du! an' gien ye war to lat a lass think ye cared aboot her it micht be but as a freen', but she micht be sae ta'en' wi' ye 'at 'at maybe she micht gar ye think 'at hoo she cudna live wantin' ye an' syne, what ye du than, Cosmo?"
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