Here Burns My Candle (63 page)
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Authors: Liz Curtis Higgs
Tags: #Fiction, #Christian, #Historical, #Romance, #Scottish
oui)
oor
—our
oot
—out
pend
—a vaulted passageway
pernickitie
—cantankerous, touchy
plainstanes
—flat paving stones
plenishings
—goods, provisions
plumpshower
—heavy downpour
pu’d
—pulled
puir
—poor
reiver
—robber
richt
—right
rightfu’
—rightful
risp
—coarse rasp, used at doors
rouping wife
—female auctioneer
sae
—so
saicret
—secret
siller
—silver
smeddum
—courage
stayed lass
—an old maid
syne
—since, ago, thereafter
tatties
—potatoes
thankrif
—grateful
thegither
—together
thocht
—thought, believed
tolbooth
—town prison
toun
—town
unchancie
—dangerous, unlucky
Uphalieday
—Twelfth Night
verra
—very
wa’—
wall
walcome
—welcome
wappen
—weapon
wauken
—awaken
weel
—well
wha
—who
whan
—when
whatsomever
—whatever
whaur
—where
wheesht
!—hush!
wickit
—wicked
wird
—word
wynd
—narrow, winding lane
yestermorn
—yesterday morning
yestreen
—yesterday evening
HERE BURNS MY CANDLE
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Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version.
The characters and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Liz Curtis Higgs
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Higgs, Liz Curtis.
Here burns my candle : a novel / Liz Curtis Higgs. — 1st ed.
p. cm
eISBN: 978-0-307-44659-6
1. Nobility—Scotland—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Scandals—Fiction.
4. Scotland—Social life and customs—18th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.I36235H47 2010b
813′.54—dc22
2010001907
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