I don't mind his calling Alfred a 'nincompoop'—that's only his coarse Scotch breeding; and I believe Paulina envies me, and Dr.
You sometimes say to me that all the Scotch, your countrymen, are the victims of prejudice.
Scotch again: incorrigible papa.
" "Scotch!
"The old symptoms are there," he affirmed: "a particular pale, and what the Scotch call a 'raised' look.
Her singing just affected me like the tricks of a conjuror: I wondered how she did it—how she made her voice run up and down, and cut such marvellous capers; but a simple Scotch melody, played by a rude street minstrel, has often moved me more deeply.
The character of his face was quite Scotch; but there was feeling in his eye, and emotion in his now agitated countenance.
You know that Highland Scotch family of MacNabs back of the Glen?
Captain Jim told tales, and Marshall Elliott sang old Scotch ballads in a fine tenor voice; finally Captain Jim took down his old brown fiddle from the wall and began to play.
Could they calculate that, by a truly providential coincidence, the Scotch yacht would arrive precisely at this time in search of Ayrton at Tabor Island?
This was a precaution rendered indispensable by the possibility of the Scotch yacht reappearing in those seas, and it was of the highest importance that nothing should be neglected on this point.
The arrival of the Scotch yacht at Tabor Island is very uncertain.
"It is necessary to carry a notice there to point out the position of our island and say that Ayrton is here in case the Scotch yacht should come to take him off.
" "Indeed," remarked the reporter, "it will be important to take a document there which will make known the situation of Lincoln Island, and Ayrton's new residence, in case the Scotch yacht returns to fetch him.
" The Scotch yacht was also rigged as a brig.
The point is to know if we may count among our chances of being rescued, the return of the Scotch vessel.
He was bareheaded, his arms folded across his chest, and it was in this posture that in a hoarse voice, speaking like some one who obliges himself to speak, he gave the following recital, which his auditors did not once interrupt:— "On the 20th of December, 1854, a steam-yacht, belonging to a Scotch nobleman, Lord Glenarvan, anchored off Cape Bernouilli, on the western coast of Australia, in the thirty-seventh parallel.
Colour was beginning to awake now, and as she approached the Dorlcote fields, she could discern the tints of the trees, could see the old Scotch firs far to the right, and the home chestnuts,—oh, how deep they lay in the water,—deeper than the trees on this side the hill!
"We can just catch the tips of the Scotch firs, Maggie, from this seat," said Philip.
Her heart beat with double violence when they got under the Scotch firs.
