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Ye see, gien a thing disna come o' 'tsel, no cryin upo' 't 'll gar 't lift its heid sae lang, at least, as the man kens naething aboot it!" "I dinna doobt ye're right, Peter," answered his wife; "I ken weel that flytin 'ill never gar love spread oot his wings excep' it be to flee awa'! Naething but shuin can come o' flytin!" "It micht be even waur nor shuin!" rejoined Peter."
"What 'ill become o's when ye're no here tae gie a hand in time o' need? we 'ill tak ill wi' a stranger that disna ken ane o's frae anither." "It's a' for the best, Paitrick, an' ye 'ill see that in a whilie. A've kent fine that ma day wes ower, an' that ye sud hae a younger man. "A' did what a' cud tae keep up wi' the new medicine, but a' hed little time for readin', an' nane for traivellin'.
Disna he ken 'at Castle Warlock itsel' wad be a warl's honour to ony leddy no to say a lass broucht up ower a slauchter-hoose? Shame upo' him an' his!" "Weel, Grizzie," rejoined Cosmo, "ye may say 'at ye like, but I dinna believe he wad hae dune what he has dune" "Cha!" interrupted Grizzie; "what has he dune? Disna he ken the word o' a Warlock's as guid as gowd?
The factor was a man imported to the district: he had not the feudal habit of respect for decayed lordship. "Indeed he does? And why disna Andrew Lashcairn come tae dae his own begging?" Marcella stared at him and her eyes flashed with indignation though her knees were trembling. "He is not begging, Mr. Braid. But the beasts are crying for food and he's needin' the corn the night."
"Troth, I was e'en thinking sae," replied Andrew, dogmatically; "for if your honour disna ken when ye hae a gude servant, I ken when I hae a gude master, and the deil be in my feet gin I leave ye and there's the brief and the lang o't besides I hae received nae regular warning to quit my place."
He then pretended to search for her in the garden and all over the house, and returned with the news that she was nowhere to be seen. "She's feared that ye're come to tak her wi' ye, and she's run awa oot aboot some gait. I'll sen' the laddies to luik for her." "Na, na, never min'. Gin she disna want to see me, I'm sure I needna want to see her.
It's no richt tae interfere wi' another's sorrow, an' it wad be an awfu' sin tae misca' a young lassie. We maun juist houp that Flora 'll sune come back, for if she disna Lachlan 'ill no be lang wi's. He's sayin' naethin', and a' respeck him for't; but onybody can see that his hert is breakin'." We were helpless till Marget Howe met Lachlan in the shop and read his sorrow at a glance.
He's in a swoond; he disna see or hear us. I gazed in horror on my uncle's face. His eyes were not closed, but were as unseeing as a blind man's. There was, I thought, a hateful look as of triumphant evil on his lips, but his breath came regularly as of one in deep sleep. 'Noo, laddie, said the good minister, 'we mun act.
"Eh, bairns," she said, "it's the wee lassie that sits beside her mother at meal times that gets all the nice bittocks. The one who sits far away and sulks disna ken what she misses. Even the pussy gets more than she does. Keep close to Jesus the Good Shepherd all the way."
An' he suffers a hantle, forbye, in his puir feeble min tryin' to unnerstan' the guid things 'at fowk tells him, an' jaloosin' it's his ain wyte 'at he disna unnerstan' them better an' whiles he thinks himsel' the child o' sin and wrath, an' that Sawtan has some special propriety in him, as the carritchis says "
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