Crossword-Solution: DUIN 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

She’s in a place no far frae here--no an easy ane, maybe, to gie satisfaction in, but she’s duin’ no that ill.” “Hoot, Anerew! she’s duin’ jist as weel as ony lassie o’ her years could in justice be expeckit,” interposed the grandmother.

Man, I hae been tryin’ to win at the duin’ o’ the richt this mony a year, but I daurna yet lat mysel’ ac’ upo’ the spur o’ the moment whaur my ain enterest ’s concernt: my ain side micht yet blin’ me to the ither man’s side o’ the business.

But though she couldna say I had ever gi’en mair nor a ceevil word to ony lass but hersel’, she appeart unco wullin’ to fix me wi’ this ane an’ that ane or ony ane! I couldna think what had come ower her! But at last--an’ a sair last it is!--I hae come to the un’erstan’in’ o’ ’t: she wud fain hae a pretence for br’akin’ wi’ me! She wad hae ’t ’at I was duin’ as she was duin’ hersel’--haudin’ company wi’ anither!” “Are you quite sure of what you say?” asked Donal.

Wha wadna be Zacchay wi’ the Lord in his hoose, an’ the richteousness o’ God himsel’ growin’ in his hert, raither nor the prood Pharisee wha kent nae ill he was duin’, an’ thoucht it a shame to speyk to sic a man as Zacchay!” The grandmother held her peace, thinking probably that so long as one kept respectable, there remained the more likelihood of a spiritual change.

Sic fowk canna un’erstan’ a body duin’ onything jist ’cause it was worth duin’ in itsel’!” “But maybe,” said the old woman, returning to the practical, “as ye hae been pleased to say ye’re on freen’ly terms wi’ mistress Brookes, ye micht jist see gien she’s observed ony ten’ency to resumption o’ the auld affair!” Donal promised, and as soon as he reached the castle sought an interview with the house keeper.