Waverly Novels, 第 35 巻Ticknor and Fields, 1864 |
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Alan Fairford amusement aneugh answered auld betwixt brandy called cause clerk client companion countenance Court Cristal Nixon dance danger Darsie Latimer door Dorcas Dougal Dumfries eyes father favour fear fish gentleman give gude gudesire hand hast hath heard heart Herries of Birrenswork hinnie honour hope horse Jacobite James James Wilkinson John Davies Joshua Geddes lady Laird laugh least length letter look Lord mair matter maun mind Mount Sharon muckle neighbour never night observed once ower passed perhaps person pipe and tabor Plainstanes present Quaker received recollection Redgauntlet replied Saint Bees Samuel Griffiths Scotland Scots law Scottish seemed Shepherd's Bush siller Sir John Sir Robert Solway speak Steenie tell thee thine thing thou art thought tion tone turned voice walk weel Whigs whilk Willie wish word XXXV young
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167 ページ - ... jackanape, that was a special pet of his ; a cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played — ill to please it was, and easily angered — ran about the haill castle, chattering and yowling, and pinching, and biting folk, specially before ill weather, or disturbances in the state.
166 ページ - Jacobites, just out of a kind of needcessity, that he might belang to some side or other. He had nae illwill to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hosting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid. Now Steenie was a kind of favourite with his master, and kend a...
187 ページ - ... 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...
164 ページ - Dalyell's. Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer. And troth when they fand them, they didna mak muckle mair ceremony than a Hielandman wi' a roebuck — It was just, "Will ye tak the test?
180 ページ - They that waited at the table were just the wicked servingmen and troopers that had done their work and cruel bidding on earth. There was the Lang Lad of the Nethertown, that helped to take Argyle ; and the bishop's summoner, that they called the Deil's Rattlebag ; and the wicked guardsmen in their laced coats; and the savage Highland Amorites, that shed blood like water; and...
176 ページ - Down the stairs he ran, (for the parlour was nae place for him after such a word,) and he heard the Laird swearing blood and wounds, behind him, as fast as ever did Sir Robert, and roaring for the bailie and the baron-officer. Away rode my gudesire to his chief creditor, (him they...
5 ページ - From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor.
186 ページ - ... 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.
187 ページ - ... 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...
169 ページ - Robert gave my gudesire a look as if he would have withered his heart in his bosom. Ye maun ken he had a way of bending his brows that men saw the visible mark of a horseshoe in his forehead, deep-dinted, as if it had been stamped there.