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She came near him and stood still. "I'm for off up the muirs, Dandie," she said. There was something unusually soft in her tones that made him look up. She was pale, her eyes dark and bright; no trace remained of the levity of the morning. "Ay, lass? Ye'll have yer ups and downs like me, I'm thinkin'," he observed. "What for do ye say that?" she asked. "O, for naething," says Dand.
"I maun have forgotten to change them," said she; and went into prayers in her turn with a troubled mind, between anxiety as to whether Dand should have observed her yellow stockings at church, and should thus detect her in a palpable falsehood, and shame that she had already made good his prophecy.
Out of this there arose, during the spring succeeding, a talk in the parish that Gabriel Oak was feathering his nest fast. "Whatever d'ye think." said Susan Tall," Gable Oak is coming it quite the dand. He now wears shining boots with hardly a hob in 'em, two or three times a-week, and a tall hat a-Sundays, and 'a hardly knows the name of smockfrock.
'Dand! ye're the auld man yet; naething will make ye take warning till ye're brought hame some day wi' your feet foremost. 'Tut, lass! answered Dandle, 'ye ken yoursell I am never a prin the waur o' my rambles. So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in despatching his breakfast, as, 'the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.
The laird, Clem, and Dand, who were Tories and patriots of the hottest quality, excused to themselves, with a certain bashfulness, the radical and revolutionary heresies of Gib.
She came near him and stood still. "I'm for off up the muirs, Dandie," she said. There was something unusually soft in her tones that made him look up. She was pale, her eyes dark and bright; no trace remained of the levity of the morning. "Ay, lass? Ye'll have yer ups and downs like me, I'm thinkin'," he observed. "What for do ye say that?" she asked. "O, for naething," says Dand.
Come to think of it, we have here perhaps a truer explanation of Frank's failures. Had he met Mr. Sheriff Scott, he could have turned a neater compliment, because Mr. Scott would have been a friend worth making. Dand, on the other hand, he did not value sixpence, and he showed it even while he tried to flatter.
She was named for me, or my grandmother at least it's the same thing," returned the aunt, and went on again about Dand, whom she secretly preferred by reason of his gallantries. "But what is your niece like?" said Archie at the next opportunity. "Her? As black's your hat! But I dinna suppose she would maybe be what you would ca' ill-looked a'thegither.
Hob marching with Clem and Dand. "You're shürely fey, lass!" quoth Dandie. "Think shame to yersel', miss!" said the strident Mrs. Hob. "Is this the gait to guide yersel' on the way hame frae kirk? You're shürely no sponsible the day! And anyway I would mind my guid claes." "Hoot!" said Christina, and went on before them, head in air, treading the rough track with the tread of a wild doe.
Robert, Gilbert, Clement, and Andrew in the proper Border diminutives, Hob, Gib, Clem, and Dand Elliott these ballad heroes, had much in common; in particular, their high sense of the family and the family honour; but they went diverse ways, and prospered and failed in different businesses. According to Kirstie, "they had a' bees in their bonnets but Hob."
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