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Ay, I noticed she wasna nane awed when I said you was the Auld Licht minister. Weel, I'se uphaud that came frae her living ower muckle in the open air. Is there no' a smell o' burning in the house?" "I have noticed it," Gavin answered, sniffing, "since you came in. I was busy until then, putting on the kettle. The smell is becoming worse."
"Nane, or next to nane," said Mrs. Saddletree; "I heard the Judge-carle say it with my ain ears It was a burning shame to see sae mony o' them set up yonder in their red gowns and black gowns, and to take the life o' a bit senseless lassie. I had never muckle broo o' my gudeman's gossips, and now I like them waur than ever. The only wiselike thing I heard onybody say, was decent Mr.
"Tak' care hoo ye affront him, whan ye tak' it," said Andrew Constable to his wife, who was setting out to carry him some dish of her own cooking for Andrew's wife belonged to the missionars "for weel ye ken Thamas likes to be unner obligation to nane but the Lord himsel'." "Lea' ye that to me, Anerew, my man. You 'at's rouch men disna ken hoo to do a thing o' that sort.
"Na, na, Jeanie," replied her sister sorrowfully, "ye hae forgotten what I am a banished outlawed creature, scarce escaped the gallows by your being the bauldest and the best sister that ever lived I'll gae near nane o' your grand friends, even if there was nae danger to me." "There is nae danger there shall be nae danger," said Jeanie eagerly.
And a willin' hert in you forbye? Fegs! ye hae a greater opinion o' Sawtan nor I gied ye the discredit o'." "Na, na; it's nae Sawtan. He has eneuch already, puir fallow!" "Ye'll be o' auld Robbie Burns's opinion, that he 'aiblins micht still hae a stake." "Na, na; he has nane. Burns was nae prophet." "But jist suppose, Thomas�-gin the de'il war to repent."
" Nae doobt it wad be the expense?" "Amna I tellin' ye what it was? Deil a bit o' the expense cam intil the calcalation! The auld maiden's nane sae close as fowk 'at disna ken her wad mak her oot. I ken her weel. She wadna hae a stane laid upon her as gien she wanted to hand her doon, puir thing! She said, says she, 'The yerd's eneuch upo' the tap o' her, wantin' that!"
"In troth and that's true," said the old housekeeper, looking with great complacency at her young master, whose mien she thought much improved by his dress. "I'm sure ye ne'er had a laced cravat like that when ye were at Milnwood; that's nane o' my sewing." "Na, na, mistress," replied Cuddie, "that's a cast o' my hand that's ane o' Lord Evandale's braws."
It was strange to see how, at the first sound of it, all the moving torches came to a stand, as if the bearers were affrighted; and how, at the third, the bustle began again as before. "James Stewart," said Alan, "I will ask ye to speak in Scots, for here is a young gentleman with me that has nane of the other.
"He had his last yesterday," said another gruffly; "and now old Meg may pray for his last fair wind, as she's often done before." "I'll pray for nane o' him," said Meg, "nor for you neither, you randy dog. There's blood on your hands, too, ye dogs mair than ever came there by fair fighting.
The students all of us wept like children; the surgeon happed her up carefully and, resting on James and me, Ailie went to her room, Rab following. We put her to bed. James took off his heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt, and put them carefully under the table, saying, "Maister John, I'm for nane o'yer strynge nurse bodies for Ailie.
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