human
That since I was nane o' that play-acting and play-ganging generation, whom his saul hated, he wad eat a reisted haddock, or a fresh herring, at breakfast wi' him the morn, and meet my friend, Mr. Owen, whom, by that time, he would place at liberty.
gpt
My dear sir, said I, when I had accepted of the invitation with thanks,
human
I watna, replied Mr. Jarvie;
gpt
he continued;
human
I like a lad that will stand by his friends in troubles--I ay did it mysell, and sae did the deacon my father, rest and bless him! But he suldna keep ower muckle company wi' Hielandmen and thae wild cattle. Can a man touch pitch and no be defiled?--aye mind that. Nae doubt, the best and wisest may err--once, twice, and thrice, have I backslidden, man, and dune three things this night--my father wadna hae believed his een if he could hae looked up and seen me do them.
gpt
Firstly, I hae thought my ain thought on the Sabbath. Secondly, I hae gien security for an Englishman--and, in the third and last place, well a-day! I hae let an ill-doer escape from the place of imprisonment. But there's balm in Gilead, Mr. Osbaldistone--Mattie, I can let mysell in--see Mr. Osbaldistone to Luckie Flyter's, at the corner o' the wynd. Mr. Osbaldistone --in a whisper--