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Admitted to his lordship's presence, he had a question to ask and a request to prefer. "Hae ye dune onything my lord," he said, "aboot Mistress Catanach?" "What do you mean?" "Anent yon cat prowl aboot the hoose, my lord." "No. You have n't discovered anything more have you?" "Na, my lord; I haena had a chance. But ye may be sure she had nae guid design in 't." "I don't suspect her of any."
But as soon as Saunders Mowdiewort came to the door, Jock Forrest had dropped Crummy's tail, and slipped silently out of the byre, even before Meg got time to utter her usual salutation of "Guid een to ye, Cuif! Hoo's a' the session?" It might have been the advent of Meg's would-be sweetheart that frightened Jock Forrest away, or again he might have been in the act of going in any case.
"It's a' true ye say," responded Margaret; "and weel it pleases me to hear your guid opinion o' my son. He has a wark wi' the lassie already, if I'm no far deceived; for ony time when she comes owre to our house, I've remarkit that he's aye kinder to her than to ony ither body. But there's a proverb that says, 'young wives seldom like auld guidmithers' and that's what troubles me."
But, bless his battered old soul, you love him none the less for all that. You no longer fret about him being unco guid, and you comfortably give up trying to match his imaginary virtues with your own. You still love him, but you love him differently. There's a touch of pity in your respect for him, a mellowing compassion, a little of the eternal mother mixed up with the eternal sweetheart.
We would like to bide the night, but the inn is no' taking folk. Is there any chance, think you, of a bed here?" "I'll no tell ye a lee," said the woman. "There's twae guid beds in the loft. But I dinna tak' lodgers and I dinna want to be bothered wi' ye. I'm an auld wumman and no' as stoot as I was. Ye'd better try doun the street. Eppie Home micht tak' ye."
"I had but to lay them straucht," sobbed her mistress; "her een she had closed hersel as she drappit! Eh, but she was a bonny lassie and a guid! hardly less nor ain bairn to me!" "And to me as weel!" supplemented Peter, with a choked sob. "And no ance had I paid her a penny wage!" cried Marion, with sudden remorseful reminiscence. "She'll never think o' wages noo!" said her husband.
I hinna missed a creelin' for thirty-five years, an' I wasna' gaun to miss Tam Donaldson's. I heard him goin' oot two or three minutes afore me. We're in for a guid day, for he telt me he had in two bottles for the spree." "That's a' right, then; I was afraid he wad maybe sleep in," and the two trudged on together towards the pit.
"'I hope, ma'am, says I, and I was a guid deal nettled, 'I hope, ma'am, ye dinna tak' me to be a drunkard. Indeed, three's just my set. I aye say to my cronies, there is nae luck till the second tumbler, and nae peace after the fourth. So ye perceive, there's not the smallest danger o' me. "'Ah, but, David, replied she, 'there is danger.
"Never," said Marget, "and never can; it's hard wark for me to keep frae hating that man, dead or alive. Geordie gripped me wi' baith his wee airms round my neck, and he cries over and over and over again, 'Is yon God?" Ye asked me: "'Am I a guid mother tae ye? and when I could dae naethin' but hold, ye said, 'Be sure God maun be a hantle kinder.
"Oh, she'll work hard enough," said Robert. "Mysie's a guid worker, an' you'll see ..." "Oh, then," said Walker hurriedly breaking in upon Robert's outburst of agreement, "ye can both come oot the morn, and I'll try and put ye both up." "How muckle pay will we get?" asked Robert, who was now feeling his importance, and felt that this was after all the main point to be considered.
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