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I had often admired a lassie before then, if scarce so sudden and strong; for it was rather my disposition to withdraw than to come foreward, for I was much in fear of mockery from the womankind.

"Naething kenspeckle," said he, "plain, dacent claes. As for the rapier, nae doubt it sits wi' your degree; but an I had been you, I would hae waired my siller better-gates than that." And proposed I should buy winter-hosen from a wife in the Cowgate-back, that was a cousin of his own, and made them "extraordinar endurable."

"I do not think you could be so bad a man," Said I, "if you had not all the machinery to be a good one."