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And there was another pause, while each rolled a stone under his foot. 'Cast your jaiket and I'll fecht ye for a bawbee, cried the elder boy with sudden violence, and dramatically throwing back his jacket. 'Na, I've nae time the now, said Francie, with a sharp thrill of alarm, because Crozer was much the heavier boy. 'Ye're feared.
"Why, friend, you do not pretend to believe that I am really a malefactor?" said Bertram. "Why, I no ken," said the fellow; "but if you are on the account, ye're nae sharp ane, that's the daylight o't." "And why do you say I am no sharp one?" "Why, wha but a crack-brained greenhorn wad hae let them keep up the siller that ye left at the Gordon Arms?" said the constable.
There's nae mony laddies cud du that, an' feower still wad try." They sat down together at the table, and in half an hour or so, Aggie had begun to see the faint light of at least the false dawn, as they call it, through the thickets of algebra. It was nearly midnight when Cosmo rose, and then Aggie would not let him go alone, but insisted on accompanying him to the gate of the court.
"It is wonderfu', sir; but I dinna approve o' it. I think you will hae nae right to put the fear o' death and dool, and the breaking hearts o' women into a pictur'. Forbye, you might sell it, and I wouldna like my sister no to speak o' my hame to be turned into siller. And there's mair to say, sir.
"Fine, my lord, fine, and I'll acknowledge that I've nae rooted objection in principle or in practice to fechtin' that is, when it's to serve a richt cause and there be a good chance o' victory, to say nothing o' profit. But a' thing maun be fair and aboveboard, and I'm dootin' whether that will be the case the mornin'. What I'm feared o' is no war, but black murder."
"Man's thoughts are vanity, sir; they come unasked, an' gang away without a dismissal, an' he canna' help them. I'm neither gaun to say that I think he's your son, nor that I think he's no your son: sae ye needna pose me nae mair about it." "Hear then my determination, John.
While Lady Margaret was playing the kind hostess, a part she delighted and excelled in, she was interrupted by John Gudyill, who, in the natural phrase for announcing an inferior to the mistress of a family, said, "There was ane wanting to speak to her leddyship." "Ane! what ane? Has he nae name? Ye speak as if I kept a shop, and was to come at everybody's whistle."
"Na, na; nae fear o' that. Ye'll read a bit to me efterhin." "Ay will I." And Annie stayed all the afternoon with Tibbie, and went home with the Bruces after the evening service. This was the beginning of her acquaintance with Tibbie Dyster. It soon grew into a custom for Annie to take Tibbie home from the chapel a custom which the Bruces could hardly have objected to, had they been so inclined.
In a few seconds the canoe was backed and the straw-hat rescued from its perilous position. "It's an ill wind that blows nae guid, as the Scotch say," remarked Barney, rising in the canoe and reaching towards something among the overhanging branches. "Here's wan o' them trees that old black-face calls a maraja, with some splendid bunches o' fruit on it.
The words of an old song hummed themselves through his mind. "Yestreen I met a winsome lass, a bonny lass was she, As ever climbed the mountain-side, or tripped aboon the lea; She wore nae gold, nae jewels bright, nor silk nor satin rare, But just the plaidie that a queen might well be proud to wear." Jessie McRae wore nothing half so picturesque as the tartan.
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