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"If I haena seen her I hae heard o' her," said he; "and by all accounts her countenance isna ane that ony man would desire to see accompanying him through the world like a shadow at his oxter."
"I am sure that there is something brewing, an' a dangerous something too. Daur ye no trust me? Ye may think me a weak an' silly creature; but, if I am not just so rash and outspoken as my mother, try me if I haena as stout a heart when there is a necessity for showing it."
"Ye can see our hoose frae't canna ye?" "Ay." "Weel, ye jist buy a twa three blue lichts. Hae ye ony bawbees?" "Deil ane, General." "Hae than, there's fower an' a bawbee for expenses o' the war." "Thank ye, General." "Ye hae an auld gun, haena' ye?" "Ay have I; but she's nearhan' the rivin'." "Load her to the mou', and lat her rive. We'll may be hear't. But haud weel oot ower frae her.
Yet in matters of compliance, the guilt lieth not in the compliance sae muckle, as in the mind and conscience of him that doth comply; and, therefore, although my testimony hath not been spared upon public defections, I haena felt freedom to separate mysell from the communion of many who have been clear to hear those ministers who have taken the fatal indulgence because they might get good of them, though I could not."
"Your word to him," said the Laird, somewhat pettishly; "but wha is he, Jeanie? wha is he? I haena heard his name yet Come now, Jeanie, ye are but queering us I am no trowing that there is sic a ane in the warld ye are but making fashion What is he? wha is he?" "Just Reuben Butler, that's schulemaster at Liberton," said Jeanie. "Reuben Butler!
But now we haena sic spirit amang us; we think mair about the warst wallydraigle in our ain byre, than about the blessing which the angel of the covenant gave to the Patriarch even at Peniel and Mahanaim, or the binding obligation of our national vows; and we wad rather gie a pund Scots to buy an unguent to clear out auld rannell-trees and our beds o' the English bugs as they ca' them, than we wad gie a plack to rid the land of the swarm of Arminian caterpillars, Socinian pismires, and deistical Miss Katies, that have ascended out of the bottomless pit, to plague this perverse, insidious, and lukewarm generation."
"Nae jist stan'in' still a'thegither." "That's weel. Ye haena been fa'in' asleep again ower the guddlet carcass o' an auld pauper hae ye?" Alec stared. He had never told any one of his adventure in the dissecting-room. "I saw ye, my man. But I wasna the only ane that saw ye.
What I am to du wantin' her! 'What for dinna ye get yer ain back? 'I haena the siller, man. And, forbye, I doobt I wadna be that sair content wi' her noo gin I had her. I used to think her gran'. But I'm clean oot o' conceit o' her. That bonnie leddy's ta'en 't clean oot o' me. 'But ye canna hae her aye, ye ken, Sanders. She's no mine. She's my grannie's, ye ken.
"As she did not appear at breakfast, and was absent from the dinner-table as well, Mrs Forbes set out with Alec to inquire after her, and not knowing where else to go first, betook herself to Robert Bruce. He showed more surprise than pleasure at seeing Alec, smiling with his own acridness as he said, "I doobt ye haena brocht hame that barrel o' ile ye promised me, Mr Alec?
Now certainly Francis had not cried much; his eyes were, notwithstanding, a little red. He had not yet learned to lie, but he might then have made his first assay had he had a fib at his tongue's end; as he had not, he gloomed deeper, and made no answer. 'You've been fighting! said his mother. 'I haena, he returned with rude indignation. 'Gien I had been, div ye think I wud hae grutten?
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