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"But you haven't told me what is the matter at Scaurnose," said Malcolm impatiently. "Ow, it's jist this at this same's midsimmer day, an' Blew Peter, honest fallow! he's been for the last three month un'er nottice frae the factor to quit. An' sae, ye see, " "To quit!" exclaimed Malcolm. "Sic a thing was never h'ard tell o'!" "Haith! it's h'ard tell o' noo," returned the gatekeeper.
What for no, sir." "It's a good way to see a lady across the Thames and know her again." "Ow! but I tuik the spy glaiss till her," answered Davy, reddening. "You are sure of her, then?" "I am that, sir." "Then come with me, and I will show you where she lives. I will not ride faster than you can run. But mind you don't look as if you belonged to me." "Na, na, sir. There's fowk takin' nottice."
"I don't see anything very attractive in your description," said his lordship. "And where," he added, looking around him, "would be the garden?" "What cud ye want wi' a gairden, an' the sea oot afore ye there? The sea's bonnier than ony gairden. A gairden's maist aye the same, or it changes sae slow, wi' the ae flooer gaein' in, an' the ither flooer comin' oot, 'at ye maist dinna nottice the odds.
I carried my senseless load upstairs to our lodging, and was admitted by the landlady in a tall white nightcap and with an expression singularly grim. She lighted us into the sitting-room; where, when I had seated Rowley in a chair, she dropped me a cast-iron courtesy. I smelt gunpowder on the woman. Her voice, tottered with emotion. 'I give ye nottice, Mr. Ducie, said she.
"Gang an' tell them i' my name 'at I tak back ilka scart o' a nottice I ever gae ane o' them to quit, only we maun hae nae mair stan'in' o' honest fowk 'at comes to bigg herbors till them. Div ye think it wad be weel ta'en gien ye tuik a poun'-nott the piece to the twa women?" "I wadna du that, sir, gien I was you," answered Malcolm.
"Gang an' tell them i' my name, 'at I tak' back ilka scart o' a nottice I ever ga'e ane o' them to quit, only we maun ha'e nae mair stan'in' o' honest fowk 'at comes to bigg herbours till them. Div ye think it wad be weel ta'en gien ye tuik a poun' nott the piece to the twa women?" "I wadna du that, sir, gien I was you," answered Malcolm.
"But," continued the Interpreter, "you muss not nottice me frind nowhar. Unerstand?" "Oh yes, I think I do," returned Mark, with an intelligent look. "I suppose he does not wish people to think that he is helping or favouring us?" "That's him! you's got it!" replied the Interpreter, quite pleased apparently with his success in the use of English.
Then you can treat him cold and he will not nottice other girls when you leav him for to enjoy yourself.
'Deed there's maist naething ither h'ard tell o' bit quittin'; for the full half o' Scaurnose is un'er like nottice for Michaelmas, an' the Lord kens what it 'll a' en' in!" "But what's it for? Blue Peter's no the man to misbehave himsel'." "Weel, ye ken mair yersel' nor ony ither as to the warst fau't there is to lay till's chairge; for they say that is, some say, it's a' yer ain wyte, Ma'colm."
"I tell you, you 'ave got ze wrong poodle it is my own dog, my Azor! He remember me well, you see? I lose him, it is three, four days. . . . I see a nottice zat he is found, and ven I go to ze address zey tell me, 'Oh, he is reclaim, he is gone viz a strangaire who has advertise. Zey show me ze placard; I follow 'ere, and ven I arrive I see my poodle in ze garden before me!"
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