Then controlling his emotions, he affected to laugh, and said: "How you do twist and turn things, Rose! One would think you were interested in convicting me.

But I had rather think that you are a little cracked on this subject.

I never used the words you think you heard.

The servant had brought me the wrong walking-stick, one that was too short for me, and so I said, 'You have brought that cursed cane to me.'" "Ou, _that_ indeed!" said the credulous girl, "But what did _he_ mean when he said, 'It could na be helpit.

The auld man squealed ?'" "I don't know what he meant, nor do I know whether he used those words.
Probably he did not; and you mistook him as you have mistaken me.