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Middleburgh contented himself with answering "All this may be very true, my friend; but, as you said just now, I have nothing to say to it at present, either one way or other. You have two daughters, I think, Mr. Deans?"
On this subject Jeanie had nothing to tell them. She informed Mr. Middleburgh, that she knew nothing of Robertson, except having met him that night by appointment to give her some advice respecting her sister's concern, the purport of which, she said, was betwixt God and her conscience.
"I tell ye, Bailie Middleburgh," retorted David Deans, "if ye be a bailie, as there is little honour in being ane in these evil days I tell ye, I heard the gracious Saunders Peden I wotna whan it was; but it was in killing time, when the plowers were drawing alang their furrows on the back of the Kirk of Scotland I heard him tell his hearers, gude and waled Christians they were too, that some o' them wad greet mair for a bit drowned calf or stirk than for a' the defections and oppressions of the day; and that they were some o' them thinking o' ae thing, some o' anither, and there was Lady Hundleslope thinking o' greeting Jock at the fireside!
And the lady confessed in my hearing that a drow of anxiety had come ower her for her son that she had left at hame weak of a decay* And what wad he hae said of me if I had ceased to think of the gude cause for a castaway a It kills me to think of what she is!" * See Life of Peden, p. 14. "But the life of your child, goodman think of that if her life could be saved," said Middleburgh.
Middleburgh I wad gie a' these grey hairs that she has brought to shame and sorrow I wad gie the auld head they grow on for her life, and that she might hae time to amend and return, for what hae the wicked beyond the breath of their nosthrils? but I'll never see her mair No! that that I am determined in I'll never see her mair!"
Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in the Middleburgh house of Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks he gave him for a foot-boy. Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him." "Well, and was he bred a foot-boy then?"
"God forbid that I suld make sic a vain-glorious speech, when there are sae mony professing Christians!" answered David; "but this I maun say, that all men act according to their gifts and their grace, 'sae that it is nae marvel that " "This is all very fine," interrupted Mr. Middleburgh; "but I have no time to spend in hearing it.
"God forbid that I suld make sic a vain-glorious speech, when there are sae mony professing Christians!" answered David; "but this I maun say, that all men act according to their gifts and their grace, 'sae that it is nae marvel that" "This is all very fine," interrupted Mr. Middleburgh; "but I have no time to spend in hearing it.
Middleburgh, "I only meant to say that you were a Cameronian, or MacMillanite, one of the society people, in short, who think it inconsistent to take oaths under a government where the Covenant is not ratified." "Sir," replied the controversialist, who forgot even his present distress in such discussions as these, "you cannot fickle me sae easily as you do opine.
'Why, how should I know? The house there was done up; and that gave us a shake at Middleburgh, I think; so they sent me again to see what could be done among my old acquaintances here, for we held old stories were done away and forgotten.
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