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The fallow didna pay eighteenpence to the pound; and there was three thousand gaen out o' my five! It was nae use, wi' a young family, to talk o' living on the interest o' our money now. 'We maun tak' a farm, says I; and baith Jeannie and her mother saw there was naething else for it. So I took a farm which lay partly in the Lammermoors and partly in the Merse.
Douce David Deans himself, in his best light-blue Sunday coat, with broad metal buttons, and waistcoat and breeches of the same. "Jeannie my ain Jeannie my best my maist dutiful bairn! The Lord of Israel be thy father, for I am hardly worthy of thee! Thou hast redeemed our captivity, brought back the honour of our house!"
The Century of some years ago contained this witty skit from the pen of Bessie Chandler: And I sit here, thinking, thinking, How your life was one long winking At Thomas' faults and failings, and his undue share of bile! Won't you own, dear, just between us, That this living with a genius Isn't, after all, so pleasant, is it, Jeannie Welsh Carlyle?
At length the day was fixed for Effie's trial, and on the preceding evening Jeannie was allowed to see her sister. Even the hard-hearted turnkey could not witness the scene without a touch of human sympathy. "Ye are ill, Effie," were the first words Jeannie could utter. "Ye are very ill." "O, what wad I gie to be ten times waur, Jeannie!" was the reply.
'In the ruined nave of the old Abbey Kirk, the sage tells us, 'with the skies looking down on her, there sleeps my little Jeannie, and the light of her face will never shine on me more. And in Stevenson's case the obligation is even more marked. 'What a debt he owed to women! one of his biographers exclaims.
"We're sure to get the better of Graywacke, and why not anticipate?" "Graywacke?" said Jeannie Hadden. "Is that a name? It sounds like the side of a mountain." "And acts like one," rejoined Sin Saxon. "Won't budge. But it isn't her name, exactly, only Saxon for Craydocke; suggestive of obstinacy and the Old Silurian, an ancient maiden who infests our half the wing.
The queen was not convinced of the propriety of showing any marked favour to Edinburgh so soon "the whole nation must be in a league to screen the murderers of Porteous" but Jeannie pleaded her sister's cause with a pathos at once simple and solemn, and her majesty ended by giving her a housewife case to remind her of her interview with Queen Caroline, and promised her warm intercession with the king.
For, though I must for once contradict the testimony of a wise woman, and tell you that nothing can render a man absolutely safe but the protection of Heaven, yet, if a hair from the head of Sir William Wallace would please you, and a glance from his eye gratify your mother, both shall be satisfied," and lifting up the old woman's shears, which lay on a working-stool before him, he cut off a golden lock from the middle of his head and put it into the hand of Jeannie.
And just then, Sin Saxon's bright face and pretty figure showing themselves on the hotel piazza, with a seeking look and gesture, Jeannie and Elinor were drawn off also to ask about the tableaux, and see if they were wanted, with the like promise that "they would come presently." So Miss Craydocke and Leslie walked slowly round, under the sun-umbrella, to the head of the ledge, by themselves.
Whaur was you, bairn?" said her mother. "Oh mother, how cold it is for you! Wrap the cloak about you." "But what is it that you mean, Jeannie?" "We shall be home by-and-by; come." And, putting an arm round her mother's waist, she impelled her forward with the strength of her wythe of an arm. "Come, come, there are ghosts about these woods;" and then she cowered, but still impelled.
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