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"They're thinking I'll be going back to work again," I told John's mother. "I canna'!" She felt as I did. We could not see, either one of us, in our grief, how anyone could think that I could begin again where I had left off. "I canna'! I will not try!" I told her, again and again. "How can I tak up again with that old mummery?
Will ye send them to Glasgow by the Glenara? I think Mr. M'Aulay would lend us a box or two. Or will ye clean them and dry them, and sell them from a barrow? 'We canna start two or three trades all at once, said Rob, after a minute or two. 'I think we'll sell them straight off, if the folk are no in bed. Ye'll gang and see, Neil; and I'll count the fish at the slip.
"Why, Christie! Why, you foolish lassie! What ails you, child? Has anything happened? or is it only that you are so glad to see me home again? Don't cry in that wild way, child. What is it, Christie?" "It's nothing I dinna ken I canna help it!" cried Christie, after an ineffectual effort to control herself.
'I like them fine, but I canna do without you. My sister, so unselfish in all other things, had an unwearying passion for parading it before us. It was the rich reward of her life. The others spoke among themselves of what must come soon, and they had tears to help them, but this daughter would not speak of it, and her tears were ever slow to come.
There are men who canna e'en do so much to whom chances come they ha' neither the wit to see nor the energy to seize upon. Such men one can but pity; they are born wi' somethin' lacking in them that a man needs. But there is anither sort, that I do not pity I despise. They are the men who are always waiting for a chance.
Dougal looked in every direction except at the querist, and began to answer, "She canna just be sure about that." "Look at me, you Highland dog," said the officer, "and remember your life depends on your answer. How many rogues had that outlawed scoundrel with him when you left him?" "Ou, no aboon sax rogues when I was gane." "And where are the rest of his banditti?"
And since your honour never got it, and his honour that was canna have ta'en it wi' him, maybe some of the family may hae seen it. Sir John. We will examine the servants, Stephen; that is but reasonable. But lackey and lass, and page and groom, all denied stoutly that they had ever seen such a bag of money as my gudesire described.
"I canna mind digging it up again," says he. "That doesn't sound much like a Scotchman," says I, "being so careless with good liquor. But you were in such a rush to get back to town maybe you did forget. Where did you plant it?" Mac scratches his head. "I canna seem to think," says he. And about then I begins to get a glimmer of this brilliant thought of mine.
Inquiring what it was, and finding they could go in, they entered. For some moments not a word was spoken between them, but when they had walked slowly halfway up the nave Malcolm turned and said, "Eh, Peter! sic a blessin'!" and Peter replied, "There canna be muckle o' this i' the warl'!"
When the Free Kirk quarrelled in their vacancy over two probationers, Mrs. Macfadyen summed them up with such excellent judgment that they were thrown over and peace restored. "There's some o' thae Muirtown drapers can busk oot their windows that ye canna pass withoot lookin'; there's bits o' blue and bits o' red, and a ribbon here an' a lace yonder.
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