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That was a rare moment in Letty's life, for when the Admiral had been let down in the bucket, the rope broke! Indeed, the thought of what the Laird would say when he came up, almost resulted in his not coming up at all.
Hogarth, as they call him I'm no wishing him any ill, but I wish the auld laird had made a fairer disposition of his possessions well, Miss Jean has been stirring up this Mr. Francis to take them out for the sake of Elsie, for she is just fading away." "I like her the best of the two, and she is certainly far the prettiest.
"Easy going," says Dan; "McGilp has nae wind to come close in, and it's a long pull to the cove." The Laird swung himself to the saddle, and as the servant mounted, Belle made to give him the tartan bundle, but John, Laird o' Scaurdale, trusted none but himself on a night ride over the road to Scaurdale. "Give me the wean," says he, and loosened his cloak.
The laird every now and then buried his face in the short sweet mountain-grass-like that of the clowns in England, not like the rich sown grass on the cultivated bank of the burn. "I believe I love the grass," he said, "as much, Ian, as your Chaucer loved the daisy!" "Hardly so much, I should think!" returned Ian. "Why do you think so?" "I doubt if grass can be loved so much as a flower."
The truth is, that Rob is for his ain hand, as Henry Wynd feught* he'll take the side that suits him best; if the deil was laird, Rob wad be for being tenant; and ye canna blame him, puir fallow, considering his circumstances.
And that very night it was as though old Betty's havers were potent spells, for Bryde was the fair-haired laddie with the Laird of Scaurdale always, and as the evening wore on he grew a little flushed with wine, so that all his silence left him, and he was very shyly bold and very gallant; but Margaret was stately and proud like her mother, and smiled but little.
The hospitable house of Borodale was a mass of blackened ruins, but the laird 'my kind old landlord, as the Prince fondly called him and his two sons had still strong hands, shrewd heads, and warm hearts ready for the Prince's service. From Morar the Prince and the two Mackinnons walked through the summer night over the wildest mountain track and arrived at Borodale in the early morning.
After a few minutes, however, they quieted down, and, while the new arrivals attacked the roast of beef, their former messmates talked incessantly, and all at once! "You're the laird of a splendid estate of rocks and scrub," said Captain Dall to Will. "Not to mention the river," replied Will, smiling. "Without fish in it, ha!" groaned Cupples.
All was now bustle at Ellangowan. The Laird and his servants, male and female, hastened to the wood of Warroch. The tenants and cottagers in the neighbourhood lent their assistance, partly out of zeal, partly from curiosity. Boats were manned to search the sea-shore, which, on the other side of the Point, rose into high and indented rocks.
For her father, however stouthearted and independent in civil and religious principles, was not without that respect for the laird of the land, so deeply imprinted on the Scottish tenantry of the period.
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