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"No, Reuben, I'll bring disgrace hame to nae man's hearth; my ain distresses I can bear, and I maun bear, but there is nae occasion for buckling them on other folk's shouthers. I will bear my load alone the back is made for the burden."
"Aweel, aweel, sir," said the Bailie, "you're welcome to a tune on your ain fiddle; but see if I dinna gar ye dance till't afore a's dune." An anxious consultation now took place between the officer and the Highlanders, but carried on in so low a tone, that it was impossible to catch the sense. So soon as it was concluded they all left the house.
"Now, ain' that jus' like a girl!" ejaculated Bud, gulping the last of his coffee. Bob sat down and fanned himself with his hat. "Hot, ain' hit?" observed Pink, dryly. Then he turned to Melissa. "You-all's fo'gittin' that he might be in prison at this minute. No woman o' his class would marry him now. No woman likes to think her man's guilty o' breakin' the law, eh?
He walked up to the lazy, grunting savage." "'Look a-yeah, yo' spraddle-nosed, yalluh voodoo nigguh, said the black sergeant he was as black as a stovepipe to the blinking chief, 'jes' shake yo' no-count bones an' tote dat wattuh yo'se'f. Yo' ain' no bettuh to pack wattuh dan Ah am, yo' heah me."
However, come o't what like, there's an honest man, a kinsman o' my ain, maun come by nae skaith. Is there ony body here wad do a gude deed for MacGregor? he may repay it, though his hands be now tied." The Highlander who had delivered the letter to the Duke replied, "I'll do your will for you, MacGregor; and I'll gang back up the glen on purpose."
Sae the warst wish I shall wish the lad is, that he may take his ain creditable gate o't, and ally himsell wi' his father's enemies, that have taken his broad lands and my bonny kail-yard from the lawful owners thereof."
It's just that Joel Strides, and Daniel the miller, and the rest o' them that fleed, the past night, have gane into their ain abodes, and have lighted their fires, and put over their pots and kettles, and set up their domestic habitudes, a' the same as if this Beaver Dam was ain o' the pairks o' Lonnon!" "The devil they have!
"What hae ye, a puir hind, to do wi' the Baron o' Ballochgray? Turn, for the sake o' heaven! turn frae that living grave o' dry banes, an' the weary goul that sits jabbering owre them, by their ain light!"
Sae, next morning, I offered the old couple a good, stiff price for it mair than it was worth, maybe, but not mair than it was worth to me. They thought I was bidding far too much, and wanted to tak' half, but I would ha' my ain way, for sae I was sure neither of was being cheated. I carried it away wi' me, and the little clock wags awa' in my bedroom to this very day.
"Me! me!" cried the preacher. "No! no! I loved her as the laverock loves the blue lift in spring, and her shadow cam between me and my ain soul but she wadna hearken unto my voice she is nae wife o' mine!" "Thank Heaven!" exclaimed Mowbray; and he clasped his hands together. It is necessary, however, that we now accompany John Brydone and his family in their flight into Westmoreland.
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