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"Now, it will be twa hours yet or ye're wanted in the schule, and as ye are no weel, I'll sit wi' you to divert ye, and explain t'ye the nature of a tillicidian. Ye maun ken, the petitioner, Mrs.
"Vara true," said the doctor, who was mated with a tartar, "ye maun have less regrets at leaving hame; but a married man is no' entirely denied his ain consolations." "Good sense in that," said the skipper; "a wide berth and plenty of sea room are not bad things now and then." "Is that your experience also?" said Power, with a knowing look.
But I suppose we maun gang awa' hame to bed; for we'll hae to gang to oor work the morn, though it's dam'd cauld comfort to think o' gaun oot to the pit, when we could hae better conditions to work in if only folk had the sense to do right." Thus they parted, full of the subject which had stirred them so much that night.
A body maun tak' care o' their ain, else wha's to do't?" "Weel," rejoined Andrew with a smile, for he understood Bruce well enough, although he pretended to have mistaken his meaning "weel, gin the bairnie falls to you, nae doot ye maun take chairge o' her." "I dinna mean Jeames Anderson's bairns I mean my ain bairns."
"And, my dear, I just wish your father would get a settlement with them, and we would begin again, and put aething down in a book. For I hae my doubts as to how we are to make the two ends meet. Things mount up you ken, and we maun try and guide things." Graeme looked grave. "I wonder what my father thinks," said she. Janet shook her head. "We mauna trouble your father if we can help it.
And when he maun have their help he makes them his partners, in a way. Jock'll be working for such an employer. He'll be needing more money, because the rent's been raised, and the wife's ailing.
Noo, it's a hard thing to see the face one loves changed and altered and made hideous. But it's no sae hard as to have tha face! Who wull say it is? And we maun be carefu' wi' such boys as that, tae. They're verra sensitive; all those that have been hurt are sensitive. It's easy to wound their feelings.
What can we do for you, lad?" "For myself nothing, sire," replied Richard. "But for another meikle is that what ye wad hae us infer?" cried the King, with a smile. "Aweel, the lassie shall hae strict justice done her; but for your ain sake we maun inquire into the matter.
"What the devil is the matter with her now?" said Sharpitlaw to Ratcliffe "Can you not get her forward?" "Ye maun just take a grain o' patience wi' her, sir," said Ratcliffe. "She'll no gae a foot faster than she likes herself." "D n her," said Sharpitlaw, "I'll take care she has her time in Bedlam or Bridewell, or both, for she's both mad and mischievous."
"Mysie, woman," said he, "there is a storm coming up from old Solway; I maun e'en gae and fauld the ewes wi' their young lammies. Come awa', Keeper and Sandy." The dogs selected rose at once and followed Andrew with right good-will.
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