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But when a year had nigh passed, one rosy morning a servant-lass met Black Roderick as he came from his chamber, her eyes heavy with tears. And of what she said I shall sing, lest thou grow weary of my prose: "Alas!" she said, "Earl Roderick, 'Tis well that you should know That each gray eve, lone wandering, My mistress dear doth go.
This was precisely what he had angled for, and he said, with a show of impatience, "Mairi! How can we take about Mairi to every place? Mairi is a ferry good lass oh yes but she is a servant-lass."
Though Sir Sun was risen this half-hour, and at home we should all have been about our business, these lazy Paris folk were still snoring. They liked well to turn night into day and lie long abed of a morning. Although here a shopkeeper took down shutters, and there a brisk servant-lass swept the door-step, yet I walked through a sleeping city, quiet as our St.
Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin' auld Provost Jervie's time and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.
Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin' auld Provost Jervie's time and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.
She had been there an hour or better, said the servant-lass, and she grat in to herself as she sat waiting. I went to her direct; she rose as I came in, and I knew her at a look. 'Grey Eyes! says I to myself, but was more wise than to let on. You will be Miss Grant at last? she says, rising and looking at me hard and pitiful. Ay, it was true he said, you are bonny at all events.
She had been there an hour or better, said the servant-lass, and she grat in to herself as she sat waiting. I went to her direct; she rose as I came in, and I knew her at a look. 'Grey Eyes! says I to myself, but was more wise than to let on. YOU WILL BE MISS GRANT AT LAST? she says, rising and looking at me hard and pitiful.
Mairi has more sense than you, Sheila, and she knows that a servant-lass has to stay at home, and she knows that she is ferry different from you; and she is a ferry good girl whatever, and hass no pride, and she does not expect nonsense in going about and such things." "I am quite sure, papa, you would rather go home and sit down and have a talk with Mr.
She had been there an hour or better, said the servant-lass, and she grat in to herself as she sat waiting. I went to her direct; she rose as I came in, and I knew her at a look. Ay, it was true he said, you are bonny, at all events. The way God made me, my dear, I said, but I would be geyan obliged if ye could tell me what brought you here at such a time of the night.
"Oh. it wass of no consequence," said old Mackenzie carelessly: indeed he was not sorry to have met with this rebuff. "Mairi is a ferry good girl oh yes but there are many who would not forget she is a servant-lass, and would not like to be always taking her with them. And you hef lived a long time in London "
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