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"Hearing you talking as you came along, and not knowing who you might have with you, I just ran in to put on my coat; but as you passed, and I heard it was Scottish you were speaking, I knew that it didna matter." "Put another plate and goblet on the table, Donald. I hope that you have meat enough for two of us." "Plenty for four," the soldier said.
With these changes she had little, as she said, to make "her kenspeckle when she didna speak," but her accent and language drew down on her so many jests and gibes, couched in a worse patois by far than her own, that she soon found it was her interest to talk as little and as seldom as possible.
"Daur ye tell me," cried Bykes, recovering himself, "'at I didna see ye wi' my twa een, loup the dyke aneth the temple ay, an something flutterin' unco like bird wings i' yer han'?" "Oot or in, Johnny Bykes?" "Ow! oot." "I did loup the dyke my lord; but it was oot, no in." "How did you get in then?" asked the marquis. "I gat in, my lord," began Malcolm, and ceased.
He said he would gaol me for an impostor if I didna tell him true, so I gaed about it cautiously, and after a minute or twa I telled him he was coming to Thrums the nicht to nab the rioters." "You are trifling with me," interposed the indignant soldier. "You promised to tell me not what you said to the sheriff, but how he disclosed our movements to you."
There was whiles when he wadna be hindered from standin' up and talkin' to hisself, though the bullets was spittin'. He was what ye call demoralized ... Syne he got as though he didna hear or see onything. He did what we tell't him, and when we let him be he sat down and grat. He's aye greetin' ... Queer thing, sirr, but the Gairmans canna hit him.
'I hae seen some sin 'at was nane sae ugly, Miss Lizzie. It's a mercy ye didna see her. 'If she be as ugly as all that, I would just like to see her. Miss Lizzie saw she had gone too far. 'Ow, deed! gin yer lordship wants to see her, ye may see her at yer wull. I s' gang and tell her. And she rose as if to go. 'No, no. Nothing of the sort, Miss Lizzie.
But I got past that, an' so will you. With a sardonic smile Willie shook his head and took another cigarette; and just then Christina had to go to attend to a customer. Willie turned to his friend. 'Thon was a dirty trick aboot the cookies. I've a guid mind to bide here as lang as you. 'I didna think ye wud hae been feart for a cookie, Wullie. Of course, I'll never tell her.
Then I would set ye on the road to Hawick ower the hill." "Thanks," said Foster thoughtfully. "I suppose I ought to let the folks at the inn know I've gone towards Annandale, so they can tell the policeman?" Pete's eyes twinkled. "It might be better if they didna' exactly tell him, but let him find it oot; but I'll see tae that. Polisman Jock is noo and then rather shairp."
"I was sayin' that same thing this verra nicht to ane o' my freens at the taivern afore ye cam'. It was auld Tam Rutherford, wha's gaun to be mairrit again, and him mair nor auchty years o' age. I warnt him against it, an' I telt him his ither wumman was deid but sax months. But Tam said as hoo a buddy at his age canna afford to wait ower lang, an' I didna ken what answer to gie to that."
Did I ever speer about your past life, and whar ye came from?" "Never, M'Alister." "But that's no to say that, if I knew manners, I didna obsairve. And there's been things now and again, John Broom, that's gar'd me think that ye've had what I had, and done as I did. Did ye rin awa', laddie?" John Broom nodded his black head, but tears choked his voice.
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