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Nicht after nicht ye'd see him oot wi' a different lassie each week, belike. They'd a' like him fine; they'd be glad tae see him comin' to their door. He'd ha' a reputation in the toon for being a great one wi' the lassies, and ither men, maybe, wad envy him. Oftimes there'll be a chiel o' anither stamp to compare wi' such a one as that.
"And how many do you think would have followed that same lion?" said Mary, sadly. "Then he should have come alone with his good horse and his good sword!" "To lose both crowns, if not life! No, no, lassie; he is a pawky chiel, as they say in the north, and cares not to risk aught for the mother he hath never seen, and of whom he hath been taught to believe strange tales."
"Have they?" said Clym abstractedly. "Yes; and he do contrive to stumble upon her whenever she walks out on fine days with the chiel. But, Mr. Yeobright, I can't help feeling that your cousin ought to have married you. 'Tis a pity to make two chimleycorners where there need be only one. You could get her away from him now, 'tis my belief, if you were only to set about it."
He's a sharp chiel Monkbarns I was glad to keep the like o' this out o' his sight. Ye'll maybe can read the character better than me I am nae that book learned, at least I'm no that muckle in practice."
She's good enough; but I can't see what the nation a young feller like you wi' a comfortable house and home, and father and mother to take care o' thee, and who sent 'ee to a school so good that 'twas hardly fair to the other children should want to go hollering after a young woman for, when she's quietly making a husband in her pocket, and not troubled by chick nor chiel, to make a poverty-stric' wife and family of her, and neither hat, cap, wig, nor waistcoat to set 'em up with: be drowned if I can see it, and that's the long and the short o't, my sonny."
The results, however, may have added to the writer's unpopularity, as Lord Houghton suggests, at the Edinburgh bar, through the answers, replies, and other rejoinders to the strictures of Johnson, for which Boswell, as the pioneer and the introducer of the stranger, 'the chiel among them takin' notes, may in Edinburgh society have been held as mainly responsible.
Fancy hastened onward, and in five minutes entered a gate, which shed upon her toes a flood of water-drops as she opened it. "Come in, chiel!" a voice exclaimed, before Fancy had knocked: a promptness that would have surprised her had she not known that Mrs. Endorfield was an exceedingly and exceptionally sharp woman in the use of her eyes and ears. Fancy went in and sat down.
The chiel ye see yan, yer honour, is just chaplain Woods." "Woods the devil!" "Na na yer honour, it's the reverend gentleman, hissel', and no the de'il, at a'. He's in his white frock though why he didn't wear his black gairment is more than I can tell ye but there he is, walking about amang the Indian dwellings, all the same as if they were so many pews in his ain kirk."
A fiery etter-cap, a fractious chiel, As het as ginger, and as stieve as steel. Flora had a large and unqualified share of the good old man's sympathy. It was now wearing late. Old Janet got into some kind of kennel behind the hallan; Davie had been long asleep and snoring between Ban and Buscar.
Man, Saunders cam tae me a haflin, and hes been on Drumsheugh for twenty years, an' though he be a dour chiel, he's a faithfu' servant as ever lived. It's waesome tae see him lyin' there moanin' like some dumb animal frae mornin' tae nicht, an' no able tae answer his ain wife when she speaks. "Div ye think, Weelum, he hes a chance?"
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