The Entail: Or, The Lairds of Grippy, Volumen3W. Blackwood, 1823 |
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Página 229 - I understand that weel," said the Leddy; " it's as plain as a pike-staff, that my oe Jamie, the soldier-officer, is by right the heir; and I dinna see how Walky Milrookit, or his wife Beenie, that is, according to law, Robina, can, by any decreet o' Court, keep him out of his ain,— poor laddie.
Página 39 - So what need the like o' you and me sit in council, and the Shanedrims o' the people, wi' ane o' the stupidest bawkie-birds that e'er the Maker o't took the trouble to put the breath o' life in ? Fey, did ye say ? that's a word o' discretion to fling at the head o' your aged parent ! Howsever, it's no worth my condescendence to lose my temper wi' the like o
Página 215 - I hae gotten ; — for ye maun ken, Willy Keckle, that I hae overcome principalities and powers in this controversy. Wha ever heard o' thousands o' pounds gotten for sax weeks' bed, board, and washing like mine ? But it Was a righteous judgment on the Nabal, Milrookit, whom I'll never speak to again in this world, and no in the next either, I doot, unless he mends his manners. He made an absolute refuse to gie a continuality o...
Página 239 - Expense of the Memorialists or by means of a Rate as aforesaid, as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, and also to direct the Sheriff of the County or other proper Person in the Parish or Liberty in which such Business is carried on to summon a Jury, according to the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods to make a new Street from Coventry Street to Long Acre, and for other Improvements...
Página 26 - I'll be as gude as my word; and when Dirdumwhamle and your auntie, wi' your joe, are here the day, we'll just lay our heads thegither for a purpose o' marriage, and let your father play the Scotch measure or shantruse, wi' the bellows and the shank o' the besom, to some warlock wallop o' his auld papistical and paternostering ancestors, that hae been — Gude preserve us! — for ought I ken to the contrary, suppin' brimstone broth wi' the deil lang afore the time o
Página 228 - I could gie an evidence, and instruct on the merits of the interdict," said she, learnedly; "but I ne'er hae yet been able to come to a right understanding anent and concerning the different aforesaids set forth in the respondent's reclaiming petition. Noo, I would be greatly obligated if ye would expone to me the nice point, that I may be able to decem accordingly.
Página 251 - Beenie,' said the Leddy, with the most ineffable self-satisfied equanimity, ' I hope ye'll prepare yoursel to hear wi' composity the sore affliction that I'm ordain't to gie you. Eh, Beenie! honesty's a braw thing ; and I'll no say that your gudeman, my ain oe, hasna been a deevil that should get his dues — what they are, the laws and lawyers as weel as me ken are little short o
Página 69 - Beenie's marriage wi' Walky, who is a lad of a methodical nature, and no a hurly-burly ramstam, like yon flea-luggit thing, Jamie.' Dirdumwhamle would fain have said amen, but it stuck in his throat. Nor had he any inducement to make any effort further by the decisive manner in which his brother-in-law declared, that he would almost as soon carry his daughter's head to the churchyard as see that match.
Página 199 - nuity of fifty pounds per annus, as it is called, according to law, I'll score you out o' my books for the bed, board, and washing due to me, and a heavy soom it is.
Página 206 - I'll no faik a farthing o' a thousand, which, at merchants' interest, will enable me to pay the 'nuity. So, when we get it, ye'll hae to find me somebody willing to borrow on an heritable bond.