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Of coorse there was a chance that my scheme wad miscairry; but there's no a man on Spey frae Tulchan tae the Tug Net that kens the natur' o' saumon better nor mysel'. They're like sheep fat ane daes, the tithers will dae; an' gin the dowager hookit a fush, I hadna muckle doobt fat that fush wad dae. The dowager didna keep me vera lang in suspense.
"In good troth did he," answered Sir Mungo, with a sneer; "but the young nobleman was soon borne down by token, he had something of a catarrh, and spoke as hoarse as a roopit raven. Poor gentleman, if he had had his full extent of voice, he would have been as well listened to, dootless, as in a cause of his ain, whilk no man kens better how to plead to purpose.
Your bull-headed citizen takes up the case so soon as the sword is drawn, and clubs is the word." "And a hard word it is," said Richie, "as my brain-pan kens at this blessed moment." "Were I your master, sirrah," said Lord Dalgarno, "I would make your brain-pan, as you call it, boil over, were you to speak a word in my presence before you were spoken to."
"Na, na, ye ken what ye hae, but ye dinna ken what ye micht get. I ken what I hae to pit up wi', wi' a nail in my fit; but wha kens what it micht be gin I had a muckle hole ye could pit yer finger in? Na, na, it's a guid lesson to be content wi' yer doon-settin', or ye may get waur!"
What's more, sor, there's no one alive kens th' truth but yerself an' th' ould doctor." It was a queer story, but in the light of all that had gone before, wonderfully convincing. Watson began to see light breaking through the darkness. "Now there are two," the old lady at 288 Chatterton Place had said to Jerome, when the detective came looking for the vanished professor.
It could not shake the cottage it was too lowly: neither could it rattle its windows they were not made to open; but it bellowed over it like a wave over a rock, and as in contempt blew its smoke back into its throat. "It'll be a wull nicht, I'm doobtin', Cosmo," said Agnes; "an' I wuss ye safe i' the ingle-neak wi' yer fowk." Cosmo laughed. "The win' kens me," he said.
I doobt the weather's gaun to be ower fine for cabs the nicht, but dinna despair; it's gettin' dark fairly early noo. Enjoy yersel' while ye're young. 'That's enough, said Macgregor. 'Ye needna think ye're the only chap that kens a thing or twa! And he left William gaping as widely as his painful jaw would permit.
"Ay, but, Meg, we shall not want your assistance, for here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune he does it by the stars." "Certainly, sir," said Mannering, entering into the simple humour of his landlord, "I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities, as recommended by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Diocles, and Avicenna.
'Ay, but, Meg, we shall not want your assistance, for here's a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune; he does it by the stars. 'Certainly, sir, said Mannering, entering into the simple humour of his landlord, 'I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the "triplicities," as recommended by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Diocles, and Avicenna.
It's a fine thing to hae patience. 'Ye come ilka day, Kirsty: what for sudna he come ilka nicht? 'He has reasons, Steenie. He kens best. 'Ay, he kens best. I ken naething but him and you, Kirsty! Kirsty said no more. Her heart was too full. Steenie stood still, and throwing back his head, stared for some moments up into the great heavens over him.
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