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Updated: June 14, 2025
I min' weel hoo Maister Graham said to me ance 'at hoo there was something o' Him 'at made him luikin' oot o' the een o' ilka man 'at he had made; an' what wad ye ca' that but a scart or a straik o' Christianity."
"When she has clinkit hersell down that way, and faulded her arms, she winna speak a word, they say, for weeks thegither. And besides, to my thinking, her face is sair changed since we cam in. However, I'se try her ance mair to satisfy your honour. So ye canna keep in mind, cummer, that your auld mistress, the Countess Joscelin, has been removed?"
"Ye wadna surely tak her frae me a' at ance!" pleaded Mrs Mair. "Ye micht lat her bide jist till Phemy comes hame; an' syne " But there she broke down; and the tempest of sobs that followed quite overcame the heart of Mrs Findlay.
But I maun haud my tongue the nicht, for I wad fain ye had a guid sleep, an' I'm needin' ane sair mysel', for I'm no sae yoong as I ance was, an' I ha'e been that anxious aboot ye, Ma'colm, 'at though I never hed ony feelin's, yet, noo 'at a' 's gaein' richt, an' ye're a' richt, and like to be richt for ever mair, my heid's just like to split. Gang yer wa's to yer bed, and soon may ye sleep.
Stay" she continued, stretching her head towards the gleam of light that shot through the narrow slit which served for a window, "Is he not there? stand out o' the light, and let me look upon him ance mair. But the darkness is in my ain een," she said, sinking back, after an earnest gaze upon vacuity "it's a' ended now, Pass breath, Come death."
Muckle guid wad ony pardon dee to sic! But ance lat them un'erstan' 'at he canna forgie them, an' maybe they'll be fleyt, an' turn again' the Sawtan 'at's i' them." "Weel, but he's no my enemy," said the youth. My certy! but he's the enemy o' the haill race o' mankin'. He trespasses unco sair against me, I'm weel sure o' that! An' I'm glaid o' 't.
"Ay, ay," answered Glossin, "and now I must call in the men." He did so, accordingly. "I can make nothing of Captain Janson, as he calls himself, Mac-Guffog, and it's now too late to bundle him off to the county jail. Is there not a strong room up yonder in the old castle?" "Ay is there, sir; my uncle the constable ance kept a man there for three days in auld Ellangowan's time.
But during his absence the stair and the turret-door were entirely disused, and this made Andrew's observation somewhat remarkable. "Have you often observed that door open?" was my question. "No just that often neither; but I hae noticed it ance or twice. I'm thinking it maun hae been the priest, Father Vaughan, as they ca' him.
The voice of the reader was heard in the chamber of death. "The minister's come, Thamas." "Come or gang," said Thomas, "it's muckle the same. The word itsel' oot o' his mou' fa's as deid as chaff upo' clay. Honest Jeames there'll rise ance mair; but never a word that man says, wi' the croon o' 's heid i' the how o' 's neck, 'll rise to beir witness o' his ministrations." "Hoot, Thamas!
"She wad hand me nae better than the dirt below her feet," said Effie to herself, "were I to confess I hae danced wi' him four times on the green down by, and ance at Maggie Macqueens's; and she'll maybe hing it ower my head that she'll tell my father, and then she wad be mistress and mair. But I'll no gang back there again. I'm resolved I'll no gang back.
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