Marriage: A Novel ...William Blackwood ...; and John Murray ..., London., 1819 - Scotland |
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Page 25 - They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 38 - ... the decease of our friends: it is no diminution, but a recommendation of human nature, that in such incidents passion gets the better of reason; and all we can think to comfort ourselves, is impotent against half what we feel.
Page 125 - Improvements indeed !' Mary found she was not likely to advance her uncle's fortune by the judiciousness of her remarks, therefore prudently resolved to hazard no more. Mr Douglas, who was more au fait to the prejudices of old age, and who was always amused with her bitter remarks, when they did not touch himself, encouraged her to continue the conversation by some observation on the prevailing manners.
Page 123 - I see ye hae neither the red heed nor the muckle cuits o' the Douglases. I ken nae whuther ye're faither had them or no. I ne'er set een on him ; neither him nor his braw leddie thought it worth their while to speer after me ; but I was at nae loss, by aw accounts." " You have not asked after any of your Glenfern friends,
Page 123 - I'se warran', it's ane o' the warld's wonders; it's been unco lang o' cummin — he, he!" "He has begun life under very melancholy auspices, poor fellow!" said Mr. Douglas, in allusion to his father's death. "An' wha's faut was that? I ne'er heard tell the like o't; to hae the bairn kirsened an' its grandfather deein! But fowk are naither born, nor kirsened, nor do they wad or dee as they used to du — awthing's changed." "You must, indeed, have witnessed many changes,
Page 135 - I speak to this bairn," said she, as she pulled Mary into an adjoining bed-chamber, which wore the same aspect of chilly neatness as the one they had quitted. Then pulling a huge bunch of keys from he* pocket, she opened a drawer, out of which she took a pair of diamond ear-rings. " Hae, bairn," said she as she stuffed them into Mary's hand ; " they belanged to your faither's grandmother. She was a gude woman, an' had four-an'-twenty sons an' dochters, an' I wiss ye nae war fortin than just to hae...
Page 132 - Mr. Douglas here paid some compliments upon her appearance, which were pretty graciously received ; and added that he was the bearer of a letter from his aunt Grizzy, which he would send along with a roebuck and brace of moor-game. " Gin your roebuck 'a aae better than your last, atweel it "s no worth the sendin': poor dry fushinless dirt, no worth thechowin'; weel a wat I begrudged my teeth on 't.
Page 132 - She had now shuffled along to the further end of the room, and opening a press, took out wine and a plateful of various-shaped articles of bread, which she handed to Mary. ' Hae, bairn — tak a cookie — tak it up— what are you feared for? It 'II no bite ye. Here 's t' ye, Glenfern, an' your wife an' your wean ; puir lead, it 's had a very chancy ootsct, weel a wat.
Page 132 - Glenfern, an' your wife, an' your wean, puir tead, it's no had a very chancy ootset, weel a wat." The wine being drank, and the cookies discussed, Mr. Douglas made another attempt to withdraw, but in vain. ** Canna ye sit still a wee, man, an' let me spear after my auld freens at Glenfern.
Page 135 - I set ye doon to a cauld pigeon-pie, an' a tanker o' tippenny, ae night to ye're fowerhoors, afore some leddies — he, he, he ! Weel a wat, yer wife maun hae her ain adoos to manage ye, for ye're a cumstairy chield, Archie." Mr. Douglas still looked as if he was irresolute whether to laugh or be angry. " Come, come, sit ye doon there till I speak to this bairn," said she, as she pulled Mary into an adjoining bedchamber, which wore the same aspect of chilly neatness as the one they had quitted. Then...