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Sorrow is for those that remain in this vale of sorrow and darkness I, wha dinna sorrow, and wha canna sorrow for ony ane, hae maist need that ye should a' sorrow for me." The voice of his mother, not heard for years as taking part in the active duties of life, or offering advice or consolation, produced its effect upon her son.
An' walk twa mile at this time o' day, an' maybe more nor that if the doctor's no at hame!" "Well, I'll go on Brownie; then I can go after him wherever he is. O Lisbeth dear, do you think uncle's very bad?" And Marjory looked anxiously at the white face and still form on the couch. "I canna say. Dinna tell Peter, but just gang yer ways the quickest that ye can."
"Really, sir, I dinna feel myself called on to remember," replied the cautious bedesman. "Or whether, in the course of that day or night," continued the magistrate, "you saw Steven, or Steenie, Mucklebackit? you knew him, I suppose?" "O, brawlie did I ken Steenie, puir fallow," replied the prisoner; "but I canna condeshend on ony particular time I have seen him lately."
In after years, when he frowned at any contradiction that she gave him, Lady Lovat used to exclaim, "Oh, boy! Dinna look that gate ye look so like your father." These words spoke volumes. The character of the lady whose best years were thus blighted by cruelty, and who was condemned through a long life to bear the name of her infamous husband, was one peculiarly Scotch.
The old woman dropped her thread, folded her hands, as she looked up to heaven with a face of apprehension. "The Lord," she exclaimed, "forbid! The Lord in His mercy forbid! O sir! if you really know this unlucky man, persuade him to settle where folk ken the good that you say he has come to, and dinna ken the evil of his former days.
I'll tell my papa." "Hoot! whisht, missie!" said Angus. "It was by yer papa's ain orders I gae him the whup, an' he weel deserved it forby. An' gien ye dinna gang awa, an' be a guid yoong leddy, I'll gie 'im mair yet." "I'll tell God," shrieked Ginevra with fresh energy of defensive love and wrath.
The marquis strode several times up and down the floor. "I 'll give you a thousand pounds for those letters," he said, suddenly stopping in front of Miss Horn. "They 're o' nae sic worth, my lord I hae yer ain word for 't. Pairt wi' them I will not, 'cep' to him 'at pruves himsel' the richtfu' heir to them." "A husband inherits from his wife." "Or maybe her son micht claim first I dinna ken.
But I dinna care how comfortable ye are, travel o' the sort I do is bound tae be a tiring thing. It's no sae hard in England or in Scotland. Distances are short. There's seldom need of spending a nicht on a train. So there it's easy. But when it comes to the United States and Canada it's a different matter. There it's almost always a case of starting during the nicht, after a performance.
"Ay, ma'am, a great robbery of money and jewelry, and no clue yet to the vilyuns as did it! But won't you drink your tea, ma'am?" "Na, na, I dinna need it now. Ou! this is awfu'! Wae worth the day!" exclaimed the horror-stricken girl, shivering from head to foot as with an ague. "Indeed, I am very sorry I told you anything about it, ma'am. But I thought it would interest you.
'But isna yer mistress i' the drawin'-room? I dinna want to see her. 'Ow, weel, said the girl, who was almost fresh from the country, 'jist rin up the stair, an' chap at the door o' her room. With the simplicity of a child, for what a girl told him to do must be right, Robert sped up the stair, his heart going like a fire-engine.
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