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'Letters! What aboot the bet? 'Awa' an' chase yersel'! Are ye no gaun to drap a line to yer aunt? 'No dashed likely! She's never sent the postal order I asked her for. If I had got it, I wud ha'e payed what I'm owin' ye, Macgreegor. By heavens, I wud! I'll tak' ma oath I 'Aweel, never heed aboot that, Macgregor said, soothingly. 'Send her a post caird an' let me get peace for three meenutes.
"He was sae bonny, Ellen, and that like his mither 'twould melt the hairt oot o' ye to look on him." "Ha'e ye no mair to tell me? Surely it never took ye these ten days to find oot what ye ha'e tell't." "The man was a kind sort o' a body, an' he took me oot to eat wi' him at a cafy, an' he paid it himsel', but I'm thinkin' his purse was sair empty whan he got through wi' it. I could na' help it.
It won't be, whatever it is, till two or three o'clock in the morning. I'll ha'e them a' here long afore; so keep a brave heart there's a darling. I suppose she heard, or fancied she heard, a step approaching, for she said 'Hish! Her pale wild face vanished, the door shut quickly and softly, and the key turned again in the lock.
"I'm telt that a' the managers roun' aboot ha'e an understandin' with one another no' to gi'e work to onybody they take a dislike to." "Ay," agreed Matthew, "I ha'e heard aboot it, but I would soon put a stop to it." "Ay, Matthew, it's a union we need up here badly. I'm telt that that chap Smillie has managed to start one down in the West Country, an' it's daein' weel.
He announced that he was to report himself on the morrow, and she merely commented, 'Quick work. 'But, Christina, ye couldna ha'e guessed I was for enlistin', he said, after a pause. 'I was afraid I mean for to say, I fancied ye were the sort to dae it. If I had kent for sure, I wud ha'e been knittin' ye socks instead o' a silly tie for yer birthday. 'Ha'e ye been knittin' a tie for me?
The factor yelled and cursed and swore, and still Malcolm plied the whip, and still the horses flew over fields and fences and ditches. At length in the last field, from which they must turn into the high road, the factor groaned out "For God's sake, Ma'colm, ha'e mercy!" The youth's uplifted arm fell by his side.
Robinson, 'so we ha'ena seen the laddie for a while. 'He hasna wrote this week, remarked Jeannie. 'But of course you'll ha'e heard frae him, Christina' this with respectful diffidence. 'He's been busy at the shooting' Christina replied, wishing she had more news to give. 'I wisht I had a gun, observed Jimsie. 'I wud shoot the whuskers aff auld Tirpy. Jings, I wud that!
'How delightful! Anything else in the way of charms? 'Christina, gi'e me a chance, an' I'll tell ye a' aboot it. 'Not another word! How long have you enjoyed the young lady's acquaintance? 'Only a couple o' evenin's, but 'Case of love at first sight, I suppose! He flared up. 'If ye hadna left me I wud never ha'e met her. If ye had wrote me a dacent letter
The father rose and went to the corner where his working clothes lay in a heap. Selecting the belt he wore round his waist at his work, he grasped it firmly, and with the other hand took the boy by one arm, saying: "Are ye going to answer my question noo', and tell me where ye ha'e been?"
When finally the passage was reached where the brutal blow was struck, the book would have to be put down, while mother and son both cried as if the grief depicted were their own. "It's an awfu' gran' book, Rob," she would say after a time, while she strove to subdue the sobs in her breast. "Puir Wallace! It maun ha'e been an awfu' blow to him, when he heard that Marion was killed.
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