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"Look at me," he cried; "look at me; am I not your true friend? I will do anything in the world for you." But he still went on torturing himself with his bramble branch, the most insensible of lovers. She was annoyed at his want of the commonest courage or tact. "John Hielan'man! John Hielan'-man!" she said inwardly, trying a little coquetry of the downcast eyes to tempt him.
"That's what I would be thinking myself, John Hielan'man," she thought. And still with all her contempt for his shrinking uncertainty there was a real fondness that might in an hour have come to full blossom in that solitude where they so depended on each other. "I was to ask you something," he said. "My wise Miss Mary!" said Nan to herself. "Women have all the wits."
He, she saw, could not notice; the thing was not in his mind. "In the stories they just move off, then?" said she shyly. "There was the meeting, the meeting no more, and they just went away?" "And the sooner the better," said he, again leading the way at last, after taking the lantern from her, and "John Hielan'man, John Hielan'man!" she cried vexatiously within.
"Nan, Nan," he cried, "could we not be here, you and I, alone together for ever?" The gaudy bubble of her expectation burst; she released herself from his grasp with "John Hielan'-man! John Hielan'man!" in her mind. "And was that Miss Mary's question? I thought she was a more sensible friend to both of us." "Never a better," said he. "She offered her all and "
"'If you can spend money on a funeral like that, you can pay me for my plough, says Stewart; for with buying and selling he wass become a poor creature, and the heart of a Hielan'man wass half gone out of him, for all he wass so proud of his name of monarchs and kings.
Gin I do naething, my hert 'll brak wi' the weicht o' my shame. Shargar burst into a roar of laughter. Robert was on the point of knocking him down, but took him by the throat as a milder proceeding, and shook him. 'Robert! Robert! gurgled Shargar, as soon as his choking had overcome his merriment, 'ye're an awfu' Hielan'man. Hearken to me. I beg g g yer pardon. What I was thinkin' o' was
"John Hielan'man!" she repeated to herself, annoyed at this tardiness, but she outwardly showed no knowledge of it. They planned what only half in fun she called their elopement. He was to come across to Maam in the early morning.
"That's not so blate, John Hielan'man!" said she again to herself. "And for yours too," she conceded, smiling. "When you find that I have taken it away from there you will know it is for your luck too." "And it will be at your breast then?" he cried eagerly. She laughed and blushed and laughed again, most sweetly and most merrily. "It will be at at at my heart," she said.
There's no denying the man had a cold-steel bravery in him, and a grim smile flickered on his face as he watched McKelvie, for no Hielan'man born can thole being likened to a menial, and the dark blood of hatred glowed on the innkeeper's face.
You are coming on, John Hielan'man." But this was to herself. "Then to you this is just the same as when we lost our way?" "The same and not all the same," he admitted. "I can make it exactly the same if I forgot to look at you, for that means sensations I never knew then.
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