Passages in the life of mrs. Margaret Maitland [by M.O. Oliphant]. |
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Страница 192 - I'll be no burden; I have thought how to prevent that. But, as Ruth said unto Naomi, "Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou dwellest I will dwell; thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall be my God.
Страница 242 - ... play-acting. Truly I marvel that folk are not afeerd of tempting the Giver to take away from them the life that they put to such fuil uses. I read a book no long since, where the story was little but a string of such like things. Grown up folk making themselves like the figures in pictures, and playing at guesses, as bairns will do by the fire on a winter night, which filled me with wonder within myself, that poorer and wiser folk should see such unseemly guisarding and no lift up a voice, nor...
Страница 305 - THERE cam' a young man to my daddie's door, My daddie's door, my daddie's door ; There cam' a young man to my daddie's door, Cam' seeking me to woo. And wow, but he was a braw young lad, A brisk young lad, and a braw young lad ; And wow, but he was a braw young lad, Cam
Страница 133 - And so it is, Mr. Reuben," said I. " I laugh whiles to myself," said Reuben, " at the way the wee vexations take their pawmies, for ye can have a perception of the bairn's nature, mair mostly in that way than in any other. There are some of a fearful nature, that will draw back the hand when the tawse comes down, in an unwise coward spirit, seeing they maun bear the pain some time, whether they will or no. And there are some that hold their arm bold out, to get it ower at once ; and there are some,...
Страница 133 - There are some of a fearful nature, that will draw back the hand when the tawse comes down, in an unwise coward spirit, seeing they maun bear the pain some time, whether they will or no. And there are some that hold their arm bold out, to get it ower at once ; and there are some, mair especial the women bairns (for ye are ever a pawkie sect, Miss Marget) that will look me fair in the e'en, as if they thought their bit shining faces would stop my hand. There is one lassie wean — puir wee...
Страница 132 - Tarn is the name of him — that'll tak' the pawmies without a word, and be ower the lugs in mischief again before I have weel laid them down. It's a sore thing, Miss Marget, to be trysted with the charge of bairns.
Страница 313 - END OF VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Stw THE WILL; OR, THE HALF-BROTHERS.
Страница 131 - ... called, no long since by one that has just a bye-ordinary gift in the way of writing books and papers) wind-bound in a school: the which means, (in my comprehension) comparing a man to a boat, that he had not strength enough, nor sails enough, to carry him on over the wild sea, or down great waters, but was just blown by the lown land breeze to shelter in the crook of a quiet burn, and by reason of the hurry and troubling of the bigger streams, could not win out again. Also he was an inoffensive...
Страница 133 - I laugh whiles to myself,' said Reuben, ' at the way the wee vexations take their pawmies, for ye can have a perception of the bairn a nature mair mostly in that way than in any other. There are some of a fearful nature, that will draw back the hand when the tawse comes down, in an unwise coward spirit, seeing they maun bear the pain some time, whether they will or no. And there are some that hold their arm bold out, to get it ower at once ; and there are some, mair especial the women bairns (for...