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They are worldly-wise to a proverb, and yet wildly susceptible to poetry and romance. The songs of such a people have necessarily a great variety: the color and the perfume of life are in them. Listen to the mocking, railing drollery of "There cam' a young man," the sly humor of the "Laird o' Cockpen," or "Hey, Johnnie Cope!" and you may understand one side of Scottish character.
The perception of this came home to Hugh with peculiar force on a bright fresh day of early spring, when he walked with a friend in the broad green fields beside the Cam.
And by my trowthe I have no wyt nor remembrance to wryte to you half the worchep that is her; but that lakyth as it comyth to mynd I shall tell you when I come home whyche I trust to God shal not be long to; for we depart owt of Brygge homward on Twysday next comyng & all folk that cam with my lady of Burgoyn out of Ingland, except syche as shall abyd her styll with hyr whyche I wot well shall be but fewe.
Nae true woman will condescend to love ony man lang, wha can find society he prefers to hers in an alehouse. I dinna mean to say that ye should never enter a company; but dinna mak' a practice o't. "Weel, the wedding morning cam, and I really thocht it was a great blessin' folk hadna to be married every day.
"It was na to see the like of you I cam' here," said she, with a scornful toss of her head. "I ken that, Marion," replied Elspa, mournfully. "And what business then hae ye to come to snool me?" Elspa for a little while made no answer to this, but, drying her eyes, she went to her seat composedly, and then said, "'Cause ye're my sister, and brought shame and disgrace on a' your family.
And also a zonge man, that wiste not of the dragoun, wente out of a schipp, and wente thorghe the ile, til that he come to the castelle, and cam in to the cave; and wente so longe, til that he fond a chambre, and there he saughe a damysele, that kembed hire hede, and lokede in a myrour: and sche hadde meche tresoure abouten hire: and he trowed, that sche hadde ben a comoun woman, that dwelled there to resceyve men to folye.
In deploring her mother's situation, Madame Louis Bonaparte informed her former governess, Madame Cam -n, of these particulars, which I heard her relate at Madame de M r's, almost verbatim as I report them to you. Such, and other scenes, nearly of the same description, are neither rare nor singular, in the most singular Court that ever existed in civilized Europe. PARIS, August, 1805.
Oh, Master Monk, how good of yo'!" "Them clasps is oncommon," said Tommie, regarding his work thoughtfully, his blue eyes twinkling with satisfaction, "I cam' at 'em by chance like." Maggie had now taken off her baby's shoe, and fitted the clog on to the soft little foot. "Ain't they bonnie?" she said. The baby leaned forward and, seizing one toe in each hand, rocked herself gently to and fro.
But he exhibited a grand trait o' this disposition when he cam to learn the rule o' Compound Interest. Indeed, I need not say he learned, it, for he literally devoured it. "May I go through this rule again, sir?" "I think ye understand it, Watty," said I, rather significantly. "But I would like to be perfect in it, sir," answered he.
The Revolution had found him a young student in a cell by the Cam, poring on the diagrams which illustrated the newly discovered laws of centripetal and centrifugal force, writing little copies of verses, and indulging visions of parsonages with rich glebes, and of closes in old cathedral towns had developed in him new talents; had held out to him the hope of prizes of a very different sort from a rectory or a prebend.
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