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"Crow is quite well, Janet?" inquired the young mother, approaching and looking at her rosy boy. "Yes, me leddy, and sleeping like an angel," answered the woman. "Those are very comfortable quarters, Janet." "Yes, me leddy, though the roaring of yon Black Torrent, as they ca' it, gars me grew. I wonder does it always roar sae loud." "Oh no, Janet. Mr.
"Hush, dear Miss Ellen! for the love of a' that's gude; dinna talk that gate, and dinna greet sae! your father wad be sair vexed to hear ye or to see ye." "I cannot help it," said Ellen; "it is true." "It may be sae; but dear Miss Ellen, dinna let it come to your father's ken; ye're his very heart's idol; he disna merit ought but gude frae ye." "I know it, Mrs.
You 'll let me come to see you, and you 'll tell me all his exploits when he was John Carnegie?" "To think he minded me, an' him sae lang awa' at the weary wars." Bell was between the laughing and the crying. "We 're lifted to know oor laird 's a General, and that he's gotten sic honour. There's nae bluid like the auld bluid, an' the Carnegies cud aye afford to be hamely.
"I think I understand your meaning, sir," replied Jeanie; "and as ye are sae frank as to speak o' the young gentleman in sic a way, I must needs say that it is but the second time of my speaking wi' him in our lives, and what I hae heard frae him on these twa occasions has been such that I never wish to hear the like again."
I found the sichts and memories of Aberdeen ower muckle for me, sae I came up to London here, and ye ken the rest about me.
Twa husbands sae like each other might meet oftener, and twa wives, wha agree in the ae grand point o' submittin to the authority o' their lords and masters, might, wi' advantage, be greater gossips than we hae been." "Might I try William, think ye, Margaret?" said he.
Osbaldistone, and he didna seem to take it a'thegither sae kind as I wished but it was weel meant weel meant." This discourse, delivered with prodigious volubility, and a great appearance of self-complacency, as he recollected his own advice and predictions, gave little promise of assistance at the hands of Mr. Jarvie.
Miss Levison drank the coffee, returned the cup, and then inquired: "Where is Janet? I sent her with a message; she should have returned by this time." "Ou, aye, sae she should.
"Ay, will I ay, will I; I'm aye seeking knoewledge." "Well, it is soon told. One of us sat twenty years on one seat, in the same house, so one day he got up a viscount." "Ower muckle pay for ower little wark." "Now don't say that; I wouldn't do it to be Emperor of Russia." "Aweel, I hae gotten a heap out o' ye; sae noow I'll gang, since ye are no for herrin'; come away, Jean."
She gied the girl's gude name awa' to win hersel' a bit honor wi' auld wives, and even the minister at first was against Maggie; sae when she couldna thole her trouble langer, she went to her brither, and folks say, he gied her the cold shoulder likewise.
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