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"Sit doon," thundered MacLure; "condemned ye will be suner or later gin ye shirk yir duty, but through the water ye gang the day." Both men spoke much more strongly and shortly, but this is what they intended to say, and it was MacLure that prevailed.
"Eh, my Lord William," an altered voice came from the door-step, where Dame Barbara MacKim, now clothed and in her right mind, stood louting low before the young Earl, "but this is a blythe and calamitatious day for this poor bit bigging o' the Carlinwark to think that your honour should visit his servants! Will you no come ben and sit doon in the house-place?
'Ye're risin' in the scale while I'm gaun doon; but I've seen something o' life, onyhoo, an' that's aye something. She gave him her hand, which was quite white and unsoiled, languidly, and bade him a careless good-night. As Walter went out of the kitchen, she was surprised, but not more so than he was himself, that two tears rolled down his cheeks.
I tellt ye I kent my beuk no that ill!" she added with some triumph; then resumed: "What the waur wad he or she or Sir Gibbie hae been though they hed inveetit me, as I was there, to sit me doon, an' tak' a plet o' their cockie-leekie wi' them?
The only response he received was the man wheeling square around, and bawling full into his face: "And for bonnie Annie Laurie, I'll lay me doon an' dee." "Curse you all!" he cried. "You confounded idiots!" and in a rage he left the building and started for Perdue's store. The sound of the last verse followed him into the darkness, and then silence. He stopped and listened.
"Noo a' mind when auld Doctor Ferintosh, him 'at wrote 'Judas Iscariot the first Residuary, would stand twa meenutes facing the fouk, and no sit doon till he hed his snuff.
"Come, Miss Simmons, do play for us now, that's a good soul!" "Indeed you must excuse me!" But no excuse would be taken. And in spite of protestations, she was forced to take a seat at the piano. "Well, since I must, I suppose I must. What will you have." "Give us 'Bonny Doon' it is so sweet and melancholy," said an interesting-looking young man.
'Ye s' get that, answered Marion. 'But what want ye a can'le for i' the braid mids o' the daylicht? 'We want to gang doon a hole, replied Steenie with flashing eyes, 'and see the pictur o' the bonny man. 'Hoot, Steenie! I tellt ye it wasna there, interposed Kirsty. 'Na, returned Steenie; 'ye only said yon hole wasna that place. Ye said the bonny man was there, though I michtna see him.
What right had they to pluck brands from the burning at the expense o' dacent fowk! It was to do evil that good might come! She would say that to their faces! Thus she sat thinking and glooming. A cry of misery came from the room above. Isy started to her feet. But Marion was up before her. "Sit doon this minute," she commanded. Isy hesitated.
When he got down at the foot of the hill by Hillocks' farm, to go up the near road, instead thereof he scrambled along the ridge, and looked through the trees as the carriage passed below; but he did not escape. "What's he glowerin' at doon there?" Hillocks inquired of Jamie Soutar, to whom he was giving some directions about a dyke, and Hillocks made a reconnaissance.
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