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"There's a gairdener, like at the country-hooses o' the gentry, leevin' in a bit lodge by the gate. He has naethin' to do, ava, but lock the gate at nicht, put the dogs oot, an' mak' the posies bloom i' the simmer. Ay, it's a bonny place." "It's ower grand for Auld Jock." "Ye may weel say that. His bit grave isna so far frae the martyrs' monument."
I am sure they belie baith Cuddie and me sair, if they said he wadna fight ower the boots in blude for your leddyship and Miss Edith, and the auld Tower ay suld he, and I would rather see him buried beneath it, than he suld gie way but thir ridings and wappenschawings, my leddy, I hae nae broo o' them ava. I can find nae warrant for them whatsoever."
For doos, there's the doocot; there will be poultry amang the tenants, though Luckie Chirnside says she has paid the kain twice ower. We'll mak shift, an it like your honour we'll mak shift; keep your heart abune, for the house sall haud its credit as lang as auld Caleb is to the fore."
They said he was the last of an auld family too, and mony were sorry; for gude blude's scarcer in Scotland than it has been. 'Dead! replied the old woman, whom our readers have already recognised as their acquaintance Meg Merrilies 'dead! that quits a' scores. And did ye say he died without an heir?
As she finished her scrutiny, she said, with a deep sigh, "It's a sair sair change; and wha's fault is it? but that's written down where it will be remembered it's written on tablets of brass with a pen of steel, where all is recorded that is done in the flesh. And what," she said after a pause, "what is Lord Geraldin seeking from a poor auld creature like me, that's dead already, and only belongs sae far to the living that she isna yet laid in the moulds?"
"Because, ye see," pursued John, "I was ae day here i' the gairden an' I was jist graftin' a bonny wull rose-buss wi' a Hector o' France an' it grew to be the bonniest rose-buss in a' the haill gairden whan the markis no the auld markis, but my leddy's father cam' up the walk there, an' a bonny yoong leddy wi' his lordship, as it micht be yersel's twa an' I beg your pardon, my leddy, but I'm an auld man noo, an' whiles forgets the differs atween fowk an' this yoong leddy 'at they ca'd Miss Cam'ell ye kenned her yersel' efterhin', I daur say, Ma'colm he was unco ta'en wi' her, the markis, as ilka body cud see ohn luikit that near, sae 'at some said 'at hoo he hed no richt to gang on wi' her that gait, garrin' her believe, gien he wasna gaein' to merry her.
I hae hard a' aboot it, but I canna min' upo' 't noo, for I paid little attention till 't at the time, an' it's mony a year sin' syne. But it wad be some deevilich ploy o' their ain they wad be efter: it's little the likes o' them wad heed sic auld warld tales." "Wad ye hae me tell the markis?" asked Malcolm. "Na, I wad no; an' yet ye maun du 't.
"Woman, you are insolent." "Troth, I needna yer lordship to tell me that! Nane the less ae auld wife may say 'at she likes til anither." "I tell you there is no thoroughfare here." "An' I tell you there IS a thoroughfare, an' ye hae but to wull the trowth to ken 'at there is.
It will be hard for you to fill her place, especially on sic a thrang day as this; but Heaven's will maun be obeyed. Jenny, whatever Milnwood ca's for, be sure he maun hae't, for he's the Captain o' the Popinjay, and auld customs maun be supported; if he canna pay the lawing himsell, as I ken he's keepit unco short by the head, I'll find a way to shame it out o' his uncle.
Mary was betrothed in her cradle to the heir of England, and France, whose sheet anchor for centuries had been the "auld alliance" with the Scots, appeared to be helpless against a coalition of England and the emperor.
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