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Methought perchance a rival had been here," and, picking it up, Charlie amused himself with putting it on the head of a little Psyche which ornamented the mantelpiece, softly singing as he did so, another verse of the old song: "He set his Jenny on his knee, All in his Highland dress; For brawly well he kenned the way To please a bonny lass."
"Aweel, me leddy, ye ken that your leddyship and your puir serving bodies are strangers here, and me laird and a' his family are well kenned folk, and, mare than that, they are o' the auld nobility mare the shame for me laird, na better to do honor till his race.
Treddles was in trade, and though he had no preceese right to do so, yet there was some warrant for a man being expensive that imagined he was making a mint of money. But this unhappy lad devoured his patrimony, when he kenned that he was living like a ratten in a Dunlap cheese, and diminishing his means at a' hands. I canna bide to think on't."
Eager to know about him, Ginevra gathered all that Janet could tell of his story, and in return told the little she had seen of it, which was the one dreadful point. "Is he a good boy, Mistress Grant?" she asked. "The best boy ever I kenned better nor my ain Donal, an' he was the best afore him," answered Janet. Ginny gave a little sigh, and wished she were good.
When the cook said she didna think muckle o' John Knox, and the ither that she wouldna give saxpence tae hear the discourse o' Maister Donald McSnaw o' the true kirk, I kenned it was time for me tae leave them tae a higher Judge. There was four in family, the general, my leddy, Maister Mordaunt, and Miss Gabriel, and it wasna long before I found that a' wasna just exactly as it should be.
He pulled her down on to his knee and kissed her. "It's twelve hours since I saw you," he said. She rested her arm on the back of the saddle-back chair, and her dark head close beside Kerry's fiery red one. "I kenned ye had a new case on," she said, "when it grew so late. How long can ye stay?" "An hour. No more. There's a lot to do before the papers come out in the morning.
Ye ken that the Enemy has power, when a corp lies in a room, and the door is hafflins closed. Whiles they sit up, and grin and yammer. I hae kenned that. Weel, how long I had lain in the dwawm I canna say. The train that skirled maun hae been a coal train that rins by about half-past three in the morning.
"You're surely wrang, Jock," was the reply; "if the ghaist kenned onything ava, it would ken brawly that ye had nae wark wi' me. It had been Lizzie Gimmerton it bade ye tak, and ye had just taen up the tale wrang." "Na, na," rejoined the other; "it was you it was Nelly Kilgour. Oh, I'll never forget its words! and if ye winna tak pity on me, what am I to do?"
That cudna be as things war inten'it, ye ken; sae what was to be said but set them richt?" "Ow, weel! but ye micht hae waitit till Donal cam' hame; he wad hae dune 't in half the time, an' no raxed his jints." "I cudna pit it aff," answered Janet. "Wha kenned whan the Lord micht come? He canna come at cock-crawin' the day, but he may be here afore nicht." "Weel, I's awa," said her visitor rising.
Them that kenned best said least; but they never gied that Thing the name o' Janet M'Clour; for the auld Janet, by their way o' 't, was in muckle hell that day.
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