 if she has not been cutting the young ashes in the Dukit park ! " — The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path.  Waverley Novels - Page 90by Walter Scott - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1892
...hand, a sapling bough which seemed just pulled. "I'll be d — d," said the groom, "if she has not been cutting the young ashes in the Dukit park!" The laird...the figure which was thus perched above his path. " Hide your ways," said the gypsy, " ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan, ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - Classical philology - 1913 - 292 pages
...speaks, he insists on defining the effect : " ' I'll be dd,' said the groom, ' if she has not been cutting the young ashes in the Dukit park ! ' The...the figure which was thus perched above his path." Now this is all very well, but what is to come of it ? " How is this big-mouthed promise to be kept... | |
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