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Lammie, giving him his hand with solemnity, 'I sweir by God that he shanna see, smell, taste, nor touch drink in this hoose. There's but twa boatles o' whusky, i' the shape o' drink, i' the hoose; an' gin ye say 'at he sall bide, I'll gang and mak them an' the midden weel acquant. Andrew was pleased at the proposal. Robert too was pleased that his father should be free of him for a while.
Lammie back his shillin', an' tell 'im 'at I wadna hae ye learn sic ill customs as tak siller. Are they a' weel? 'Ay, brawly, answered Shargar, putting the shilling in his pocket. In another moment Shargar had, without a word of adieu, embezzled the shoes, and escaped from the house without seeing Betty.
Janet put her fingers over the girl's lips. "Whist, my lammie. It's naething or naething that can be helpit," and she struggled fiercely to keep back the flood that was swelling in her full heart. Graeme said nothing, but stroked the toil-worn hand of her friend, and at last laid her cheek down upon it. "Lassie, lassie!
"Salemina, dear," I said penitently, kissing her grey hair, "I apologise: you are not absolutely ignorant about Love, after all, when you call him the master architect; and that is very lovely and very true about the oak-tree and the sunshine." "Love, I maun gang to Edinbrugh, Love, I maun gang an' leave thee!" She sighed right sair, an' said nae mair But "O gin I were wi' ye!" Andrew Lammie.
Wonderful handy with babies, though, and if anybody was wanting a nurse now a stepmother's breath is cold but Nancy! My gough, you daren't look over the hedge at her lammie but she's shouting fit for an earth wake. Stand nice, now, Kitty, stand nice, bogh! The woman's about right, too the lil one's legs are like bits of qualebone. 'Come, now, bogh, come?"
I aye hae to haud ye to the pint, Betty. The pint is, whether he has rabbits or no? 'Or guinea-pigs, suggested Betty. 'Weel. 'Or maybe a pup or twa. Or I kent a laddie ance 'at keepit a haill faimily o' kittlins. Or maybe he micht hae a bit lammie. There was an uncle o' min' ain 'Haud yer tongue, Betty! Ye hae ower muckle to say for a' the sense there's intil 't.
"Well, my lammie!" said her father, softly. "Papa! it is not too good to be true, is it?" Her father bent down till his lips touched her cheek. "You are not afraid, my child?" Afraid! no, it was not fear he saw in those sweet triumphant eyes. Her look never wandered from his face, but it changed soon, and he knew that the King's messenger was come.
From the open kitchen door came the smell of something good. But beyond all to Robert was the welcome of Miss Lammie, whose small fat hand closed upon his like a very love-pudding, after partaking of which even his grandmother's stately reception, followed immediately by the words 'Noo be dooce, could not chill the warmth in his bosom.
"When I set her to my knee like this I can see my own lil Kirry again, said Grannie, looking down ruefully, rocking the child with one knee and doubling over it to kiss it. "So she's like the mammy, is she?" said Pete, blowing at the baby and tickling its chin with his broad forefinger. "Mammy's gone to the ould uncle's hasn't she, my lammie?"
But she had only retreated within another of her defences. 'I canna leave thae twa laddies alane. They wad be up to a' mischeef. 'There's Betty to luik efter them, suggested Miss Lammie. 'Betty! returned Mrs. Falconer, with scorn. 'But what for shouldna ye fess the lads wi' ye? suggested Mr. Lammie. 'I hae no richt to burden you wi' them.
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