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Jarvie, for whose kindness he entertained the most grateful sentiments, which he expressed in very few, but manly and nervous terms. He explained the altered state of his affairs, and offered the Bailie, on such terms as could not but be both advantageous and acceptable, that part in his concerns which had been hitherto managed by MacVittie and Company.
Jarvie to precede us, a manoeuvre for which the narrowness of the road served as an excuse, he said to me "You are a kind-hearted and an honourable youth, and understand, doubtless, that which is due to the feelings of a man of honour.
"Umph!" replied Jarvie, with a precautionary sort of cough "Ay, he has a kind o' Hieland honesty he's honest after a sort, as they say. My father the deacon used aye to laugh when he tauld me how that by-word came up. My honest father used to laugh weel at that sport and sae the by-word came up."
Jarvie presided with great glee and hospitality, compelling, however, Owen and myself to do rather more justice to the Scottish dainties with which his board was charged, than was quite agreeable to our southern palates. I escaped pretty well, from having those habits of society which enable one to elude this species of well-meant persecution.
After gazing everywhere in vain, I at length retraced my steps to see what assistance I could individually render to my unlucky friend, when, to my great joy, I saw Mr. Jarvie delivered from his state of suspense; and though very black in the face, and much deranged in the garments, safely seated beneath the rock, in front of which he had been so lately suspended.
He muttered an exclamation in Gaelic, strode across the floor, and then, with an air of dogged resolution, as if fixed and prepared to see the scene to an end, sate himself down on the oak table, and whistled a strathspey. Mr. Jarvie, who seemed very alert and expeditious in going through business, soon showed himself master of that which he had been considering, and addressed himself to Mr.
Jarvie as lang as ye like He's responsible enough for ony fine ye may lay on him and so's my master for that matter; for me, I'm just a puir gardener lad, and no worth your steering." "I believe," said the officer, "the best thing I can do is to send these persons to the garrison under an escort.
MacGregor Campbell, as your cousin uh! uh! but ye'll mind my father, Deacon Nicol Jarvie, in the Saut Market o' Glasgow? an honest man he was, and a sponsible, and respectit you and yours. Sae, as I said before, I am right glad to see you, Mrs. MacGregor Campbell, as my kinsman's wife.
I could not doubt, from the circumstances attending my first meeting with this person Campbell, that he was engaged in some strangely desperate courses; and the reluctance with which Mr. Jarvie alluded to his person or pursuits, as well as all the scene of the preceding night, tended to confirm these suspicions.
"Upon all these matters I am now to ask your advice, Mr. Jarvie, which, I have no doubt, will point out the best way to act for my father's advantage and my own honour." "Ye're right, young man ye're right," said the Bailie.
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