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Post est occasio calva, laddie! And dinna disappoint an auld man that has taught ye all he kens himsel'!" Much of his mother's advice was of a kind that could not be expressed so concisely, but two salient items remained fixed in Robert's mind: "If ye canna think o' the richt word, pit up a bit prayer. "For ony sake see that your collar is speckless a' the time."
'But if this woman is a sovereign among them, why was she not able to afford me open protection, and to get me back my property? 'Ou, wha kens? she has muckle to say wi' them, but whiles they'll tak their ain way for a' that, when they're under temptation. And then there's the smugglers that they're aye leagued wi', she maybe couldna manage them sae weel.
But take my advice, and hide thy gold in thy stays, and keep a piece or two and some silver, in case thou be'st spoke withal; for there's as wud lads haunt within a day's walk from hence, as on the braes of Doune in Perthshire. And, lass, thou maunna gang staring through Lunnon, asking wha kens Mrs. Glass at the sign o' the Thistle; marry, they would laugh thee to scorn.
Perhaps Lord Errol was the Scotch Lord mentioned ante, iii. 170, and the nobleman mentioned ib. p. 329. 'Pitied by gentle minds Kilmarnock died. Ante. i. 180. Sir Walter Scott describes the talk that he had in 1814 near Slains Castle with an old fisherman. 'The old man says Slains is now inhabited by a Mr. Bowles, who comes so far from the southward that naebody kens whare he comes frae.
He's an awfu' haiverin' body the Smith sometimes. When he's sensible, he's juist akinda ridic'lously sensible; an' when he's' no', he's juist as far the ither wey. "Deputations is aye anonimous," says Sandy. "They aye turn up wi' a nomdy plum. It's juist the men's modesty that keeps them oot o' sicht. They pey a' their veesits throo the nicht, an' fient a cratur kens eechie or ochie aboot them.
'Ay, whether he be man or dog! assented Steenie solemnly. He drew his stool close to his father where he sat at the table, and again laid his head on his knee. The mother sighed but said nothing. She looked nowise hurt, only very sad. In a minute, Steenie spoke again: 'I'm thinkin nane o' ye kens, he said, 'what it's like whan a' the hillside 's gien up to the ither anes!
Bertram could possibly believe in the existence of a boy that a' the world kens was murdered many a year since? 'Really, sir, said Mr. Protocol, 'I do not conceive it is possible for me to explain her motives more than she has done herself.
At least, he looked about him for some means of escape, and fumbled with the catch of his black hand-bag. "Deil's in the man," cried Mary Lyon, snatching the bag from him, "but it's a blessing I'm no so easy to tak' in as the guidman there. Let that bag alane, will ye, na! Wha kens what may be in it? There what did I tell you?"
"'Deed, sir, I'd be fain to ken where to but I hae the house for the care o' things; and David Promoter left word that if I took up Maggie's name in my lips, I wad be to leave instanter; sae I'll say naething at a'. Elder Mackelvine kens a' that anybody kens, and when you hae had a drap o' tea, you can ask him a' the questions you like to." "Never mind tea, I am going at once to Mackelvine's."
'Your honour sees I went down to yon place that your honour spoke o', that's kept by her that your honour kens o', by the sea-side. So says she, "What are you wanting here? ye'll be come wi' a broom in your pocket frae Ellangowan?" So says I, "Deil a broom will come frae there awa, for ye ken," says I, "his honour Ellangowan himsell in former times "
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