The Provost: And The Last of the Lairds, Volumen1Blackwood, 1896 |
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Página 47 - It was not, however, within the power of the magistrates to overlook the accusation ; so we were obligated to cause a precognition to be taken, and the search left no doubt of the wilfulness of the murder. Jeanie was in consequence removed to the Tolbooth, where she lay till the Lords were coming to Ayr, when she was sent thither to stand her trial before them; but, from the hour she did the deed, she never spoke. " Her trial was a short procedure, and she was cast to be hanged— and not only to...
Página 171 - ... the bit prideful lairdies were just looked down upon by our gawsie big-bellied burgesses, not a few of whom had heritable bonds on their estates. But in this I am speaking of the change when it had come to a full head; for in verity it must be allowed that when the country gentry, with their families, began to intromit among us, we could not make enough of them.
Página 117 - ... the contrary, it seemed to be the use and wont of men in public trusts, to think they were free to indemnify themselves in a left-handed way, for the time and trouble they bestowed in the same. But the thing was not so far wrong in principle, as in the huggermuggering way in which it was done, and which gave to it a guilty colour, that by the judicious stratagem of a right system, it would never have had. In sooth, to say, through the whole course of my public life, I met with no greater difficulties...
Página 118 - I have endeavoured, in a manner, to be governed by the spirit of the times in which the transactions happened ; for I have lived long enough to remark that if we judge of past events by present motives, and do not try to enter into the spirit of the age when they took place, and to see them with the eyes with which they were really seen, we shall conceit many things to be of a bad and wicked character that were not thought so harshly of by those who witnessed them, nor even by those who, perhaps,...
Página 163 - American-war fencibles, and was, to say the God's truth of him, a divor bodie, with no manner of conduct, saving a very earnest endeavour to fill himself fou as often as he could get the means ; the consequence of which was, that his face was as plooky as a curran bun, and his nose as red as a partan's tae.