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"Captain of Knockdunder, madam, if you please, for I knock under to no man; and in respect of my garb, I shall go to church as I am, at your service, madam; for if I were to lie in bed like your Major What-d'ye-callum, till my preeches were mended, I might be there all my life, seeing I never had a pair of them on my person but twice in my life, which I am pound to remember, it peing when the Duke brought his Duchess here, when her Grace pehoved to be pleasured; so I e'en porrowed the minister's trews for the twa days his Grace was pleased to stay but I will put myself under sic confinement again for no man on earth, or woman either, but her Grace being always excepted, as in duty pound."
You must pe learning ta Gaelic, or you'll not pe peing worthy to pe her nain son, Malcolm." "But daddy, wha's to learn me?" asked his grandson, gayly. "Learn you, Malcolm! Ta Gaelic is ta lancuach of Nature, and wants no learning.
"And if she'll tie tonight, my poy," said Duncan, "she'll pe lie awake in her crave all ta long tarkness, to pe waiting to hear ta voice of your worrts in ta morning. And nefer you mind, Malcolm, she'll has learned to forgife you for peing only ta one half of yourself a cursed Cam'ell." Miss Horn gave Malcolm a wink, as much as to say, "Let the old man talk.
"O, Cot tam! this is too cruel, my leddy as if it was not py special express from his Grace's honourable agent and commissioner at Edinburgh, with a warrant conform, that I was to seek for and apprehend Donacha dhu na Dunaigh, and pring him pefore myself and Sir George Staunton, that he may have his deserts, that is to say, the gallows, whilk he has doubtless deserved, py peing the means of frightening your leddyship, as weel as for something of less importance."
Only she'll pe put a voman, and it'll not pe knowing no petter to her. You'll be minding you'll be firing ta cun at six o'clock exackly, Malcolm, for all she says; for my lord peing put shust come home to his property, it might be a fex to him if tere was any mistake so soon.
"O, no need of intemnifying at all no trouble for her, nothing at all So, peing in the house of Inver-Garry, and the people about it being uncanny, I doubted the warst, and " "Do you happen to know, sir," said Lady Staunton, "if any of these two lads, these young Butlers, I mean, show any turn for the army?"
"'Fenchence is mine I will repay. Ta Lord loves fenchence. It's a fine thing, fenchence. To make ta wicked know tat tey'll pe peing put men! Yes; ta Lord will slay ta wicked. Ta Lord will gif ta honest man fenchence upon his enemies. It wass a cran' sairmon!" "Don't you think vengeance a very dreadful thing, Mr MacPhail?" said the schoolmaster.
Duncan understood the position of the sun and what it signified, as well as the clearest eyed man in Port Lossie, but he could not afford to yield. "It was peing some conspeeracy of ta cursit Cawmills, to make her loss her poor pension," he said.
"O, Cot tam! this is too cruel, my leddy as if it was not py special express from his Grace's honourable agent and commissioner at Edinburgh, with a warrant conform, that I was to seek for and apprehend Donacha dhu na Dunaigh, and pring him pefore myself and Sir George Staunton, that he may have his deserts, that is to say, the gallows, whilk he has doubtless deserved, py peing the means of frightening your leddyship, as weel as for something of less importance."
"O, no need of intemnifying at all no trouble for her, nothing at all So, peing in the house of Inver-Garry, and the people about it being uncanny, I doubted the warst, and" "Do you happen to know, sir," said Lady Staunton, "if any of these two lads, these young Butlers, I mean, show any turn for the army?"
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