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"We'll see, Peter, my man," she said, when the neighbour took her leave, "whether the wife, though she hasna' been to the ill place, an' that's surely Lon'on, canna tell the true frae the Cause full better nor her man, 'at kens sae muckle mair nor she wants to ken? Lat sit an' lat see."
I'll never hear of leaving Lon'on there's no living out of Lon'on I can't, I won't live out of Lon'on, I say."
Here we be come up to Lon'on a thinkin' to better ourselves not wantin' no great things sich we don't look for to get but jest thinkin' as how it wur time' as th' parson is allus a tellin' his prishioners, to lay by a shillin' or two to keep us out o' th' workus, when 't come on to rain, an' let us die i' the open like, where a poor body can breathe! that's all as we was after! an' here, sin' ever we come, fust one shillin' goes, an' then another shillin' goes as we brought with us, till we 'ain't got one, as I may almost say, left!
Nay, my dear Colambre, don't go, I beg I am serious, I assure you and, to convince you of it, I shall tell you candidly, at once, all your father told me: that now you've done with Cambridge, and are come to Lon'on, he agrees with me in wishing that you should make the figure you ought to make, Colambre, as sole heir-apparent to the Clonbrony estate, and all that sort of thing.
So, since you mention it, and speak without an introduction, excuse me if I suggest, against the next act, that this young lady has never been at a play before in her life in Lon'on, at least. And though it i'n't the play I should have chose for her, yet since she is here, 'tis better she should see something than nothing, if gentlemen will give her leave."
And she has a natural family air of fashion not but what she would have got on much better, if, when she first appeared in Lon'on, she had taken my advice, and wrote herself on her cards Miss de Nogent, which would have taken off the prejudice against the IRICISM of Nugent, you know; and there is a Count de Nogent. 'I did not know there was any such prejudice, ma'am.
"Oh, sartin sure, miss; for Martin mentioned, moreover, what he had heard talk in the servants' hall, that there is to be a very pettiklar old gentleman, as rich! as rich! as rich can be! from foreign parts, and a great friend of the colonel that's dead; and he that is, the old pettiklar gentleman is to be down all the way from Lon'on to dine at the park on Tuesday for sartin: so, husband, away with the john-doree and the turbot, while they be fresh."
Why, you'd never tell one from t'other on 'em! Third Boy. All on 'em wery glad to see old Daddy Longlegs! Tho. Oh dear! Oh dear! What an awful plaze this Lon'on do be! To see the childer so bad! Second Boy. Don't cry, gran'pa. She'd chaff you worser 'n us! We're only poor little innocent boys. We don't know nothink, bless you! Oh no! First Boy. You'd better let her alone, arter all, bag o' nails.
Malcolm held his peace. "Ay, I'm thinkin' I maun gang," he said at length. "Whaur till, than?" asked Miss Horn. "Ow! to Lon'on whaur ither?" "And what'll yer lordship du there?" "Dinna say lordship to me, mem, or I'll think ye're jeerin' at me. What wad the caterpillar say," he added, with a laugh, "gien ye ca'd her my leddie Psyche?" Malcolm of course pronounced the Greek word in Scotch fashion.
When they came in front of the theatre, people were crowding in, and carriages setting down their occupants. Blue Peter gave a glance at the building. "This'll be ane o' the Lon'on kirks, I'm thinkin'?" he said. "It's a muckle place; an' there maun be a heap o' guid fowk in Lon'on, for as ill's it's ca'd, to see sae mony, an' i' their cairritches, comin' to the kirk on a Setterday nicht tu.
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