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

Yet she had twa as fu fair sons As eer brake manis bread, And the tane of them loed her White Lilly, And the tither lood Rose the Red.

But ye’re sic a bairn, Cosmo! Ye dinna ken what ye wad hae! An’ bein’ a kin’ o’ a mither to ye a’ yer life, I maun lat ye see what ye’re aboot--I wadna insist ower sair upo’ the years atween ’s, though that’s no a sma’ maitter, but surely ye haena to be tellt at this time o’ day, ’at for fowk to merry ’at dinna loe ane anither, is little gien it be onything short o’ a sin.” “_I_ hae aye loed _you_, Aggie,” said Cosmo, with some reproach in his tone.

Nae wonder, nae wonder, Gill Morìce, My lady loed thee weel, The fairest part of my bodie Is blacker than thy heel.

Believe me, father, gien ye can; though I doobt sair ye winna be able!” “I believe ye, my bairn; and I thank God I hae that muckle pooer o’ belief left in me! I confess I was in ower great a hurry, and I’m sure ye war takin the richt gait wi’ yer puir mither.—Ye see she loed ye sae weel that she could think o’ nae thing or body but yersel! That’s the w’y o’ mithers, Jamie, gien ye only kenned it! She was nigh sinnin an awfu sin for your sake, man!” Here he turned again to his wife.

But I’m sorry for the callan, for eh but I loed his father! Lassie, for his father’s sake I cud tak Francie intil the hoose, and work for him as for you and Steenie--though it’s little guid Steenie ever gets o’ me, puir sowl!’ ‘Dinna say that, father.