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"Well, it's this," said Francie: "Why do you and me comply if it's so wicked?" "Ay, ye have the cant of it too!" cried Montroymont. "But I'll tell ye for all that. It's to try and see if we can keep the rigging on this house, Francie. If she had her way, we would be beggar-folk, and hold our hands out by the wayside.
Morrison, he had asked none who were not his tenants or servants, or in some way connected with the estates, except indeed a few whom he counted old friends, amongst them some aged beggar-folk waiting their summons to Abraham's bosom; in which there was no such exceptional virtue on the marquis's part, for, the poor law not having yet invaded Scotland, a man was not without the respect of his neighbors merely because he was a pauper.
"I will tell you what James More is meaning," said she. "He means we have come to you, beggar-folk, and have not behaved to you very well, and we are ashamed of our ingratitude and ill-behaviour. Now we are wanting to go away and be forgotten; and my father will have guided his gear so ill, that we cannot even do that unless you will give us some more alms.
For that is what we are, at an events, beggar-folk and sorners." "By your leave, Miss Drummond," said I, "I must speak to your father by myself." She went into her own room and shut the door, without a word or a look. "You must excuse her, Mr. Balfour," says James More. "She has no delicacy." "I am not here to discuss that with you," said I, "but to be quit of you.
For that is what we are, at all events, beggar-folk and sorners." "By your leave, Miss Drummond," said I, "I must speak to your father by myself." She went into her own room and shut the door, without a word or a look. "You must excuse her, Mr. Balfour," says James More. "She has no delicacy." "I am not here to discuss that with you," said I, "but to be quit of you.
"I will tell you what James More is meaning," said she. "He means we have come to you, beggar-folk, and have not behaved to you very well, and we are ashamed of our ingratitude and ill-behaviour. Now we are wanting to go away and be forgotten; and my father will have guided his gear so ill, that we cannot even do that unless you will give us some more alms.
For that is what we are, at all events, beggar-folk and sorners." "By your leave, Miss Drummond," said I, "I must speak to your father by myself." She went into her own room and shut the door, without a word or a look. "You must excuse her, Mr. Balfour," says James More. "She has no delicacy." "I am not here to discuss that with you," said I, "but to be quit of you.
"I will tell you what James More is meaning," said she. "He means we have come to you, beggar-folk, and have not behaved to you very well, and we are ashamed of our ingratitude and ill-behaviour. Now we are wanting to go away and be forgotten; and my father will have guided his gear so ill, that we cannot even do that unless you will give us some more alms.
'Well, it's this, said Francie: 'Why do you and me comply if it's so wicked? 'Ay, ye have the cant of it too! cries Montroymont. 'But I'll tell ye for all that. It's to try and see if we can keep the rigging on this house, Francie. If she had her way, we would be beggar-folk, and hold our hands out by the wayside.
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