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Gien ye could, ye wouldna be sae comfortable as ye seem!" "I cannot think, Mr. MacLear, why you should be rude to me!" "Gien ye saw the hoose on fire aboot a man deid asleep, maybe ye micht be in ower great a hurry to be polite til 'im!" remarked the soutar. "Dare you suggest, sir, that I have been drinking?" cried the parson.
'Then I think I shall not go, returned Francis. 'I will come another day. 'Steenie! Steenie! cried Kirsty, 'he'll no gang the day. He maun gang hame. He says he'll come anither time. Haud ye awa on to yer hoose; I s' be wi' ye by and by. Steenie went up the hill, and Kirsty and Francis walked toward Corbyknowe.
They'll be thinking of the nuisance it is tae be caring for him a' the time, and of the way he's always aboot the hoose, needing care and attention. What I'm afraid of is that tae many of the laddies wull be tae tired to fit themselves tae be other than helpless creatures, despite their wounds or their blindness. They can do wonders, if we'll help them.
But, every sae oft, there'll be a batch of songs I've put aside to think aboot a wee bit more before I decide. And then I'll tell my wife, of a morning, that I'd like tae have her listen tae a few songs that seemed to me micht do. "All richt," she'll say. "But hurry up I'm making scones the day." She's a great yin aboot the hoose, is Mrs. Lauder.
Ye see," Jess explained to me, "Leeby was lyin' ben the hoose, an' Jamie wasna allowed to gang near her for fear o' infection. Weel, he gat a lang stick it was a pea-stick an' put it aneath the door an' waggled it. Ay, he did that a curran times every day, juist to let her see he was thinkin' o' her." "Mair than that," said Leeby, "he cried oot 'at he loved me."
"Tonal', poy, what iss it that Muster Archie wull pe doin'?" "I think he wull pe takin' the hoose!" They had not time to make further inquiry, for just then the wind changed and blew the flames towards the part of the mansion that had been already burned, giving some hope that the other parts might yet be saved, and calling for the redoubled efforts of all hands.
"I hae been called for, Mistress Futtrit, a' the road to Pittenloch," she said, with a sigh; "my nephew is settled for the ministry an' nae less and I maun just gae and tak' the guiding o' his sister and his hoose." "You're auld to be fashed wi' a bairn noo, Mistress Caird." "Na, na, it isna a bairn; Maggie Promoter is a braw, handsome lass, wi' mair lovers than she has fingers and toes."
And when the nicht came for my first show the hoose was crowded; there was not a seat to be had, e'en frae the speculators. Weel, there's ane thing I've learned in my time on the stage. You canna treat an audience in any verra special way, just because you're anxious that it shall like you. You maun just do your best, as you've been used to doing it.
But we maun juist bear oor burdens," concluded Barbara piously, and proposed to close the door. "Your master will not want a nurse a minute longer; show me his room at once," and Kate was so commanding that Barbara's courage began to fail. "Who may ye be," raising her voice to rally her heart, "'at wud take chairge o' a strainger in his ain hoose an' no sae muckle as ask leave?"
Ralph saw that Winsome and her grandmother were both genuinely interested in his father. "Ye maun mind that I yince kenned yer faither as weel as e'er I kenned a son o' mine, though it's mony an' mony a year sin' he was i' this hoose." Winsome looked curiously at her grandmother. "Aye, lassie," she said, "ye may look an' look, but the faither o' him there cam as near to bein' your ain faither "
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