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"An' yet," he murmured, "there's the loss on the goods, an' the loss o' time, and the boat to steek afresh forbye the danger to life! Na, na, I'm no called upon to put life i' peril for a glass o' whiskey." Then he lifted his head, and there, on the white sands, stood his daughter Margaret.
Mac-Morlan perused it with eyes that sparkled with delight, snapped his fingers repeatedly, and at length exclaimed, "Available! it's as tight as a glove naebody could make better wark than Glossin, when he didna let down a steek on purpose. "Ah! And how shall we know whether she has done so?" "Somebody must attend on Miss Bertram's part, when the repositories of the deceased are opened."
And noo she canna even steek thae black, black e'en, nor wind the corpse-claith aboot yon comely limbs sae straight and bonny as they were I hae straiked and kissed sae oft and oft. O wae's me wae's me! What will I do withoot my bonny laddies!" It was with the sound of his mother's lament still in his ears that Sholto rode sadly over the hill to Thrieve.
Lawyer Ed gave a cheer when he was through, and Archie Blair quoted Burns: "Now, Robinson, harrangue na mair, But steek your gab forever, Or try the wicked town of Ayr, For there they'll think you clever."
I'se no refuse it, though it's beyond my rules; for if they steek me up here, my friends are like eneugh to forget me out o'sight out o'mind, is a true proverb; and it wadna be creditable for me, that am the king's bedesman, and entitled to beg by word of mouth, to be fishing for bawbees out at the jail window wi' the fit o' a stocking, and a string."
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