Bonny, bairnly braws; it's for the like o' them folk sells the peace of God that passeth understanding; it's for the like o' them, an' maybe no even sae muckle worth, folk daunton God to His face and burn in muckle hell; and it's for that reason the Scripture ca's them, as I read the passage, the accursed thing.

Mary, ye girzie,' he interrupted himself to cry with some asperity, 'what for hae ye no put out the twa candlesticks ?' 'Why should we need them at high noon ?' she asked.
But my uncle was not to be turned from his idea.

'We'll bruik {16} them while we may,' he said; and so two massive candlesticks of wrought silver were added to the table equipage, already so unsuited to that rough sea- side farm.
'She cam' ashore Februar' 10, about ten at nicht,' he went on to me.
'There was nae wind, and a sair run o' sea; and she was in the sook o' the Roost, as I jaloose.

We had seen her a' day, Rorie and me, beating to the wind.

She wasnae a handy craft, I'm thinking, that _Christ-Anna_; for she would neither steer nor stey wi' them.