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I'll lay twenty thousand pounds this moment, that afther he's been a fortnight at Johnny Scott's the odds agin him won't be more than ten to one, from that day till the morning he comes out on the downs." "I dare say not." "I wondher who your lordship'll put up?" "That must depend on Scott, and what sort of a string he has running. He's nothing, as yet, high in the betting, except Hardicanute."
Grizzie was on the point of losing her temper with him altogether, when the laird returned to the kitchen. He found her standing before him with her two hands on her two hips, and lingered a moment at the door to hear what she was saying. "Na, na, my lord!" expostulated Grizzie, "I canna lea' ye here. Yer lordship'll sune be past takin' care o' yersel no 'at ye wad be a witch at it this present!
"We haven't got to the stage where we can think of everything," observed Starmidge. "We've got to take things as they come. Well there's one thing can be done now," he went on, looking at the Earl, "if your lordship'll be kind enough to do it." "I'll do anything that I can," replied Lord Ellersdeane. "What is it?" "If your lordship would just make a call on the two Mr.
"Dowie, dear, I am going to write to Lord Coombe." Dowie's heart hastened its beat and she herself being conscious of the fact, hastened to answer in an unexcited manner. "That'll be nice, my dear. His lordship'll be glad to get the good news you can give him." She asked herself if she would not perhaps tell her something something which would make the fourth time.
"Nay, Tibbie, if you find fault with such a sweet, winning young creature, I shall think it is all because you will not endure a mistress at Gowanbrae over you." "His lordship'll please himsel' wi' a leddy to be mistress o' Gowanbrae, but auld Tibbie'll never cross the doorstane mair."
Regular good ones, my lord though they are county bucks very much honoured to make your lordship's acquaintance." Scoutbush expresses himself equally honoured by making their acquaintance, in a tone of bland simplicity, which utterly puzzles Trebooze, who goes a step further. "Your lordship'll honour us by taking pot luck afterwards.
MacHewlett, in his most plaintive voice, and commanded so sudden and universal an attention as to be obviously disconcerted, "his lordship'll need plainer speech than that," he muttered hastily, and subsided, with an uneasy glance in the direction of that man of action, Major White.
Na, na, Maister Colin, his lordship'll fend weel aneugh wantin' Tibbie; an' what for suld I leave yerself, an' you settin' up wi' a house o' yer ain? Deed an' my mind's made up, I'll e'en bide wi' ye, an' nae mair about it." "Stay, stay," cried Colin, a glow coming into his cheeks, "don't reckon without your host, Tibbie.
"Well, Kelly," said Lord Ballindine, "how does Dublin agree with you?" And, "I hope I see your lordship well, my lord?" said Martin. "How are they all at Dunmore and Kelly's Court?" "Why thin, they're all well, my lord, except Sim Lynch and he's dead. But your lordship'll have heard that." "What, old Simeon Lynch dead!" said Blake, "well then, there's promotion.
Tibbie looked after him, and shook her head, understanding from her ain laddie's pallid check, and resolute lip, nay, in the very sound of his footfall, how sore was his trial, and with one-sided compassion she muttered, "Telegrafted awa on his vera weddin' day. His Lordship'll be the death o' them baith before he's done."
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