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But when we came to go through their country, and to see their bonny little steadings, and the douce quiet folk at work in the fields, and the women knitting by the roadside, and the old granny with a big white mutch smacking the baby to teach it manners, it was all so home-like that I could not think why it was that we had been hating and fearing these good people for so long.
"I hae na seen ye're bonny face these muckle years, sir, sync ye cam' back frae ae sight o' the young mistress." I told him yes. That I had come for a last look at the old place before I left. He sighed. "Ye're vera welcome, sir." Then he added: "Mr. Bordley's gi'en me a fair notion o' yere management at Gordon's. The judge is thinking there'll be nane ither lad t' hand a candle to ye."
"'Ned Thomson, says they. "'And wha was that bonny lassie, asked I, 'that gaed in just the now? "'He! he! he! the bairns laughed, and gaed me nae answer. So I put my question to them again, and ane o' the auldest o' them, a lassie about thirteen, said 'It was the maister's daughter, sir, the laird's bonny Jenny if ye like, I'll gang in and tell her that a gentleman wishes to speak to her.
No; it would not deceive me, that; it would not give me any pleasure. We have a proverb in the Highlands, that Annapla will often be saying, that the rook thinks the pigeon hen would be bonny if her wings were black; and that is a seanfhacal that is an old-word that is true."
Sandy did as he was bid; he clasped his hands tightly in front of him. "'Tis no for the faeries," he explained. "Ye see they be hardly needin' ony music, wi' muckle o' their ain. 'Tis for the children the children i' horspitals a bonny song for them to sleepit on." He marked the rhythm a moment with his foot, and hummed it through once to be sure he had it.
As we all know, Venus was born out of the sea, and out there on that eastern peninsula, of which Yarmouth is the pride and ornament, there used to flourish bonny lasses, as if to show that the connection between the ocean and lovely woman is as intimate as of yore.
One fine summer morning it was the beginning of harvest, I remember Mr. Earnshaw, the old master, came down-stairs, dressed for a journey; and, after he had told Joseph what was to be done during the day, he turned to Hindley, and Cathy, and me for I sat eating my porridge with them and he said, speaking to his son, 'Now, my bonny man, I'm going to Liverpool to-day, what shall I bring you?
Wi' fine dark thinkin eyes, and a still way, Rachael, as I ha never seen the like on. 'Young and handsome. Yes! cried the old woman, quite delighted. 'As bonny as a rose! And what a happy wife! 'Aye, missus, I suppose she be, said Stephen. But with a doubtful glance at Rachael. 'Suppose she be? She must be. She's your master's wife, returned the old woman. Stephen nodded assent.
They fitted well his figure, which had increased both in height, compactness, and grace. Round his neck was a coarse but white shirt frill; and over it fell, carefully arranged, the bright curls of his bonny hair. Easily might Jael or any one else have "mistaken" him, as she cuttingly said, for a young gentleman. She looked very indignant, though, when she found out the aforesaid "mistake."
She dared not put Bonny Angel down even if the child would have consented, and, continually, the rumblings and whistlings grew more confusing. In comparison with this great shed, Elbow Lane, that Miss Bonnicastle had found so noisy, seemed a haven of quietude and Glory heartily wished herself back in it.
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