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"Ay, ay vera true," exclaimed the caustic old courtier "Impertinent coxcombs they are, that thus intrude themselves on the society of their betters; but your lordship kens how to gar them as gude ye have the trick on't.
Waverley, he was naething sae weel fa'rd as the puir Colonel. 'Do you know what is become of Miss Bradwardine's father? 'The auld laird? na, naebody kens that.
Ay, and there's one queer thing." "What?" "Her luggage wasna in the van." Tommy could smile at that. "But what sent her," he asked eagerly, "on that journey?" Corp told him the little he knew. "But nobody kens except me and Gavinia," he said. We pretend she gaed to London to see her father. We said he had wrote to her, wanting her to go to him.
"Open there! Open, I say, in the name of the Earl of Douglas!" "Fower o' the morning! Lord, what's a' the steer? In the name o' the Yerl o' Douglas! But wha kens that it isna the English? Na, na, Grice Elshioner opens not to every night-raking loon that likes to cry the name o' the Yerl o' Douglas ower oor toon wa'!"
At onyrate, if she didna' ken then she kens noo, I'll warrant." "Not so far as I am concerned, certainly." Mungo looked incredulous. That any one should let go the chance of conveying so rare a piece of gossip to persons so immediately concerned was impossible of belief. "Na, na," said he, shaking his head; "she has every word o't, or her faither at least, and that's the same thing.
"He didna seem muckle to mind," said Jeanie; "he kend that I was landward bred." "Weel, weel," answered the good lady. "His Grace kens me weel; so I am the less anxious about it. I never fill his snug-box but he says, 'How d'ye do, good Mrs. Glass?
I canna understand that in a man wi' sense enough to mak' a success in business, yet every actor kens weel that it's sae. What many a man calls meanness I call prudence. I think if we talked more o' that virtue, prudence, and less o' that vice, meanness for I'm as sure as you can be that meanness is a vice we'd come nearer to the truth o' this matter, mayhap. Tak' a savage, noo.
But I ken o' a fine hole in the face o' the clifts o' Gaulton, that would suit a smuggler grandly for stowing away a few casks o' whisky in. Sandy Ericson was another that ken'd it. But Sandy was an honest man." "What!" said Paterson; "d'ye mean the cave that Sandy found Carver Kinlay in, after the wreck o' the Undine?" "Ay," said Colin. "Then Kinlay kens o' the cave?" continued Jack.
"But I wantit to tell ye anither thing my lord," said Malcolm, as he followed the marquis down the stairs. "What is that?" "I cam upo' anither plot a mair serious ane, bein' against a man 'at can ill haud aff o' himsel', an' cud waur bide onything than yer lordship the puir mad laird." "Who's he?" "Ilka body kens him, my lord! He's son to the leddy o' Kirkbyres."
Will shall not hang yet. He hath a job to do for me. I'll take thy bond." "Gie me your hand then, my Lord," said the determined dame; "and the richest lurdon o' the land he'll bring to your Lordship, as surely as he ever took a Cumberland cow whilk, as your Lordship kens, is nae rieving."
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