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Consequently , there was little more of comfort for him at Arnstead . Mr. Arnold , however , did not reveal his change of feeling so much by neglect as by ceremony , which , sooner than anything else , builds a wall of separation between those who meet every day . For the oftener they meet , the thicker and the faster are the bricks and mortar of cold politeness , evidently avoided insults , and subjected manifestations of dislike , laid together . O , cocks are crowing a merry midnight , I wot the wild-fowls are boding day ; Give me my faith and troth again , And let me fare me on my way . Sae painfully she clam the wa ' , She clam the wa ' up after him ; Hosen nor shoon upon her feet , She hadna time to put them on . Scotch Ballad . -- Clerk Saunders .