Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyMarcus Ward & Company, 1878 - 422 páginas |
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acquaintance Alan Fairford Alan's answered auld Benjie betwixt brandy brother called cause Court Crackenthorp Cristal Nixon Crosbie danger Darsie Latimer door doubt Dumfries Dumfriesshire Edward Baliol endeavoured eyes Fairladies Father Buonaventure favour fear followed Foxley gauntlet Geddes gentleman give gudesire hand heard heart Herries hinnie honour hope horse Jacobite James Wilkinson Joshua Justice lady Laird lawyer length letter Lilias look Lord manner matter maun Maxwell mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never night observed occasion once party passed perhaps person Peter Peebles poor present Provost Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Samuel Griffiths Scotland Scottish seemed Shepherd's Bush Sir Richard Solway speak spirit Steenie Summertrees suppose tell thee thou thought tone Trumbull trust turned uncle voice walk warrant weel Whigs Willie wish word young
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Página 110 - My gudesire, with as gude a countenance as he could put on, made a leg, and placed the bag of money on the table wi' a dash, like a man that does something clever. The Laird drew it to him hastily — " Is it all here, Steenie, man ? " " Your honour will find it right," said my gudesire. " Here, Dougal," said the Laird, "gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt.
Página 116 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks streaming down over his laced buffcoat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Página 233 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Página 115 - What is it that ye want with me, freend?" he said, "If ye be a robber, I have nae money; if ye be a leal man, wanting company, I have nae heart to mirth or speaking; and if ye want to ken the road, I scarce ken it mysell." "If you will tell me your grief...
Página 120 - although this vision of yours tends, on the whole, to my father's credit, as an honest man, that he should, even after his death, desire to see justice done to a poor man like you, yet you are sensible that ill-dispositioned men might make bad constructions upon it, concerning his soul's health. So, I think, we had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature, Major Weir, and say naething about your dream in the wood of Pitmurkie.
Página 106 - Hielandman wi' a roebuck. It was just, " Will ye tak the test ? " — if not, " Make ready — present — fire ! " — and there lay the recusant. Far and wide was Sir Robert hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact with Satan ; that he was proof against steel, and that bullets happed...
Página 111 - But when a' was ower, and the Laird was beginning to settle his affairs, every tenant was called up for his arrears, and my gudesire for the full sum that stood against him in the rental-book. Weel, away he trots to the Castle, to tell his story, and there he is introduced to Sir John, sitting in his father's chair, in deep mourning, with weepers and hanging cravat, and a small walking...
Página 112 - Steenie," quoth the laird, sighing deeply, and putting his napkin to his een, "his was a sudden call, and he will be missed in the country; no time to set his house in order: weel prepared...
Página 107 - Steenie wasna the sort that they made Whigs o'. And so he became a Tory, as they ca' it, which we now ca' Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae...
Página 121 - ... had gaen very far in tampering with dangerous matters, yet, as he had refused the devil's arles (for such was the offer of meat and drink), and had refused to do homage by piping at his bidding, he hoped, that if he held a circumspect walk hereafter, Satan could take little advantage by what was come and gane. And, indeed, my gudesire, of his ain accord, lang...