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'What the dae you an' her jaw aboot? 'Nane o' your business! 'Haw, haw! laughed Willie, mirthlessly. 'My! but ye're a spoony deevil! nae offence intendit. The apology was made hastily owing to a sudden change in Macgregor's expression and colour. Macgregor lit a cigarette and returned his well-stocked aluminium case to his pocket. The silence was broken by Willie. 'Savin' up? 'Ay.
"He is my grandfather's miller at Carvel Hall," I said. "Syne ye maun be nane ither than Mr. Richard Carvel. Yere servan', Mr. Carvel," and he made me a low bow, to the great dropping of jaws round about, and led me into the inn.
"We're a' honest men," replied Thomas, "an' we're a' open to conviction, but I houp nane o' us'll be weak eneuch to be convickit. Oor faithers wadna hae been convickit." "It'll dae nae harm to hear the argyments," said Andrew Hogg, the silent member of the session.
"O, I wad like to ken to the beggar-wife says I Why chops are guid to brander and nane sae guid to fry, An' siller, that's sae braw to get, is brawer still to gie. It's gey an' easy speirin', says the beggar-wife to me." It is always easier for poor human nature to weep with those who weep than to rejoice with those who rejoice.
I'se warrant him nane of your whingeing King George folk, but a gallant Gordon, at the least o' him. The eyes of the assembly were now turned upon Waverley, who took the opportunity to beg the smith to shoe his guide's horse with all speed, as he wished to proceed on his journey; for he had heard enough to make him sensible that there would be danger in delaying long in this place.
An iron strong-box was discovered in a recess of the wall; he opened this also, and pulling out two or three drawers, showed that they were filled with leathern bags full of gold and silver coin. "This is my bank, Jeanie lass," he said, looking first at her and then at the treasure, with an air of great complacency, "nane o' your goldsmith's bills for me, they bring folk to ruin."
He was to have a weary weird o't till his ane-and-twentieth year, that was aye said o' him; but if ye live and I live, ye'll hear mair o' him this winter before the snaw lies twa days on the Dun of Singleside. I want nane o' your siller," she said, "to make ye think I am blearing your ee; fare ye weel till after Martinmas." And there she left us standing.
The Bailie expressed himself interested in me, and added, "That since I was nane o' that play-acting and play-ganging generation, whom his saul hated, he wad be glad if I wad eat a reisted haddock or a fresh herring, at breakfast wi' him the morn, and meet my friend, Mr. Owen, whom, by that time, he would place at liberty."
'Ay, a milch cow, quo she. 'Weel, far hae I ridden, And muckle hae I seen; But milking cows wi' saddles on Saw I never nane." That very night the rascal decamped, taking with him the doctor's horse, and was never after heard of.
And as for how I came by it, Reuben it's weel come by, and honestly, as I said before And it's mair folk's secret than mine, or ye wad hae kend about it lang syne; and as for onything else, I am not free to answer mair questions about it, and ye maun just ask me nane." "Answer me but one," said Butler. "Is it all freely and indisputably your own property, to dispose of it as you think fit?
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