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"It's a kittle cast she has gien me to play; but yet it's fair play, and I winna baulk her. Mr. Osbaldistone, I dwell not very far from hence my kinsman can show you the way Leave Mr. Owen to do the best he can in Glasgow do you come and see me in the glens, and it's like I may pleasure you, and stead your father in his extremity. There's my thumb, I'll ne'er beguile thee."
Sae doon your heid an' shut your een; Gien ye'd be away, my dearie An' the bonny sauncy faery queen Wull keep ye nae mair weary." You may think it uncommonly strange that Sandy could make a song like this, by himself; but, you see, he was not entirely alone there were the baby faeries.
"There's little fear o' that, gien I ken my men," answered Peter, and went off, rather less than half clothed, the sun burning hot upon his back, through the sleeping village, to call them, while Malcolm went and waited beside the dinghy.
"An' gien I had taen the disgrace ye offert me, ye wad hae drawn back?" "No, certainly." "Ye wasna tryin' me than: ye was duin' yer best to corrup' me." "I 'm no splitter of hairs." "My lord, it 's nane but the corrup'ible wad seek to corrup'." The marquis gnawed a nail or two in silence. Miss Horn dragged an easy chair within a couple of yards of him.
'She kenned me weel eneuch. She ca'd me by my ain as weel 's ither names. 'Ye're jist croonin my arguyment, Francie! Yer mither's jist perishin o' drink! She drinks and drinks, and, by what I hear, cares for noucht else. A' 's upo' the ro'd to ruin in her and aboot her. She hasna the brains noo, gien ever she bed them, to guide hersel.
"I wad say to mysel' 'at wi' God's help I was the less lik'ly ever to tell a lee again; for that noo I un'erstude better hoo a temptation micht come upon a body a' at ance, ohn gien 'im time to reflec' an' sae my responsibility was the greater." "Thank ye, Cosmo," said Aggie humbly, and was silent.
It's only this 'at gien ever ye fa' in love wi' onybody, ye'll let me ken." Agnes was silent for a moment; then, with a tremble in her voice, which in vain she sought to smooth out, and again turning her head away, answered: "Cosmo, I daurna." "I want naething mair," said Cosmo, thinking she must have misapprehended, "nor the promise 'at what ye ken I sail ken. I wad fain be wi' ye at sic a time."
"God damn the rascal 'at did it!" cried one of them, clenching his teeth, and forgetting himself quite in the rage of the moment. "Laddie, tak back the word," said his mother calmly. "Gien ye dinna forgie yer enemies, ye'll no be forgi'en yersel'." "That's some hard, mither," answered the offender, with an attempted smile. "Hard!" she echoed; "it may weel be hard, for it canna be helpit.
Neither of the children knew that they possessed a penny. A blunt word of Hannah's first of all, about 'not gien 'em ony high noshuns o' theirsels, aided on Reuben's side by the natural secretiveness of the peasant in money affairs, had effectually concealed all knowledge of their own share in the family finances from the orphans.
I find myself, therefore, in the same position in which M. de Turenne found himself when opposed to the Prince de Conde at Jargeau, Gien and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. He did not execrate monsieur le prince, it is true, but he obeyed the king. Monsieur le prince is an agreeable man, but the king is king. Turenne heaved a deep sigh, called Conde 'My cousin, and swept away his army.
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