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Gien 't be that ye mean, Mistress Mellis, " "Hoots!" returned the other. " Hoo far can ye lippen to that Jean o' yours, mem?" "Nae farer nor the len'th o' my nose, an' the breid o' my twa een," was the scornful answer.
"Weel," said Malcolm, thinking it better to give way, "I'm no abune bein' obleeged to ye, Peter. I maun bide my time, I see, for ye winna lippen till me. Eh man! your faith's sune at the wa'." "Faith! what faith?" returned Peter, almost fiercely. "We're tauld to put no faith in man; an' gien I bena come to that yet freely, I'm nearer till't nor ever I was afore."
"Yer ain bridle sail rule my tongue, mem," said Malcolm. "I s' lippen to yer discretion," said Miss Horn, and straightway began. She was cunnin', the auld vratch, no that auld maybe aboot forty, but I was ower mony for her.
"Ye may put that in when ye get intil yer pulpit, and then ye'll deceive none but them that lippen till ye. Don't gud yersel wi' God's name." "It is written," said his reverence, "'It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness." "Dus'ta think to knock me doon wi' the Bible?" said Matthew with a touch of irreverence.
I'm thinkin', gin there be onything in 't ava ye ken I'm no sayin', for I dinna ken we maun jist lippen till him to dee dacent an' bonny, an' nae sic strange awfu' fash aboot it as some fowk wad mak a religion o' expeckin'. Ericson looked at Robert with admiration mingled with something akin to merriment. 'One would think it was your grandfather holding forth, Robert, he said.
Malcolm approached the bed. "My lord!" he said gently. No reply came. "Dinna lea 's oor lanes, my lord no yet," Malcolm persisted. "What's to come o' my leddy?" The marquis gave a gasp. Still he made no reply. "She has naebody, ye ken, my lord, 'at ye wad like to lippen her wi'."
Stra'ven folk are never to lippen to. And they hae made a clean sweep. No a Gallowa' Douglas left, if they hae speerited awa' the bonny bit lass. Man, Robert, she was heir general to the province, baith the Lordship o' Gallowa' and the Earldom o' Wigton, for thae twa can gang to a lassie.
I do not want to treat working people as children, but to encourage them to help themselves. I have had to work hard myself, and I know what it is." "We will lippen to you," said Sandy Pringle, "and even though in some points we may not see things exactly as ye do, we want a man, an' no a mere thing to hae a name, an' be coonted like thae Fortescues and Turnbulls they are puttin' up."
And you make no charge for a first interview. Merton vaguely conjectured that to 'lippen' implied some sort of caress; however, he only said that he was obliged to Miss Maxwell for her kind estimate of his firm. 'Gray and Graham, good Scots names. You'll not be one of the Grahams of Netherby, though? 'I don't like an alias, he said. 'But it seems you are to lippen to.
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