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... ye They're no worth the looking at , " said she ; but seen the last Leddy Kittlestonheugh , your ain muckle respeckit grandmother , and her twa sisters , in their hench - hoops , with their fans in their han's - the three in a row would ...
... ye They're no worth the looking at , " said she ; but seen the last Leddy Kittlestonheugh , your ain muckle respeckit grandmother , and her twa sisters , in their hench - hoops , with their fans in their han's - the three in a row would ...
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... ye'll ne'er even your han ' wi ' a saxpence to the like of Kittleston- heugh , for sae we're bound in nature to call him , landless though his lairdship now be ; poor bairn , I'm wae for't ! Ye ken his mother was sib to mine by the ...
... ye'll ne'er even your han ' wi ' a saxpence to the like of Kittleston- heugh , for sae we're bound in nature to call him , landless though his lairdship now be ; poor bairn , I'm wae for't ! Ye ken his mother was sib to mine by the ...
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... ye gaun , and what's that ye're hauling ahint you ? " " For the love of heaven , Johnny , ” replied the distressed cloth- merchant , pale with apprehension , and perspiring at every pore - " for the love of heaven stop this desperate ...
... ye gaun , and what's that ye're hauling ahint you ? " " For the love of heaven , Johnny , ” replied the distressed cloth- merchant , pale with apprehension , and perspiring at every pore - " for the love of heaven stop this desperate ...
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... ye ken now - a - days it's no the fashion for bare legs to come thegither ... re a hale man , and wha kens what would be the upshot o ' a second mar ... ye ken the Walkinshaws of Kittleston- heugh are o ' a vera ancient blood , and but ...
... ye ken now - a - days it's no the fashion for bare legs to come thegither ... re a hale man , and wha kens what would be the upshot o ' a second mar ... ye ken the Walkinshaws of Kittleston- heugh are o ' a vera ancient blood , and but ...
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... ye just hae a spite at the bairn , gudeman , ' cause my father has made him the heir to the Plealands . That's the gospel truth o ' your being so fain to gar folk trow that my Watty's daft . " " Ye're daft , gudewife ; arena we speaking ...
... ye just hae a spite at the bairn , gudeman , ' cause my father has made him the heir to the Plealands . That's the gospel truth o ' your being so fain to gar folk trow that my Watty's daft . " " Ye're daft , gudewife ; arena we speaking ...
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