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Sair, sair I am grieved, neighbours, for the poor castaway for the child of mine old age but sairer for the stumbling-block and scandal it will be to all tender and honest souls!" "Davie winna siller do't?" insinuated the laird, still proffering his green purse, which was full of guineas.
"Ah, it is nowhere in the world but Londres one finds these delicate attentions, these splendid sergeants de ville," she added, with a sort of sigh. "You are wonnerful you are mos' wonnerful, you Anglais poliss. Sair, I am a stranger; I know not ze ways of this city of amazement, and if monsieur would so kindly direct me where to find the Abbey of the Ves'minster "
If it is no' stopped, he's in for dreadful sickness, and I thought ye could find out and help him. He's in sair trouble; that's all I know." McLean sat brooding as he stroked Nellie's neck. At last he said: "I suspect I understand. At any rate, I think I can find out. Thank you for telling me." "Ye'll no need telling, once ye clap your eyes on him," prophesied Mrs. Duncan.
"Nae doubt, neighbour," he said, "it's a sair thing to hae to do wi' courts of law, unless it be to improve ane's knowledge and practique, by waiting on as a hearer; and touching this unhappy affair of Effie ye'll hae seen the dittay, doubtless?" He dragged out of his pocket a bundle of papers, and began to turn them over.
"Na', na', jest a freend, an auld acquaintance, but nane o' mine ain kin. I never felt sae sad in a' my life as I ha'e dune this day. I ha'e seen the clods piled on mony a heid, an' never felt the saut tear in my een. But puir Jeanie! puir lass! it was a sair sight to see them thrown down upon her."
"It is some comfort, when one has had a sair tussel," continued the Captain, addressing Lady Staunton, with an air of gallantry, "that it is in a fair leddy's service, or in the service of a gentleman whilk has a fair leddy, whilk is the same thing, since serving the husband is serving the wife, as Mrs. Putler does very weel know."
"I wadna say a word 'at micht fa' sair on a sair hert," he returned; "but gien ye kent a', ye wad ken I hed a gey sized craw to pluck wi' 's lordship mysel'." The girl gave a low cry. "Ye wadna hurt 'im, Ma'colm?" she said, in terror at the thought of the elegant youth in the clutches of an angry fisherman, even if he were the generous Malcolm MacPhail himself.
She shook her head. "Na," said Hendry, "you never mixed them up. I dinna think ye ever missed Joey sae sair as I did." Leeby went ben, and stood in the room in the dark; Jamie knew why. "I'll just gang ben an' speak to Leeby for a meenute," he said to his mother; "I'll no be lang." "Ay, do that, Jamie," said Jess. "What Leeby's been to me nae tongue can tell.
"It's slashy and cold, but I've come to see my old neighbor," she said. "I'm sure I've suffered lang and sair ower her affliction, poor body." Without much show of welcome from Rotha, the three women went into Mrs. Ray's room and sat down. "Poor body, who wad have thought it?" said Mrs. Garth, putting her apron to her eye as she looked up at the vacant gaze in the eyes of the sufferer.
"It's no true every time 'Like master like man'" and Kirsty made a bold opening, as was the way of her class "for I never saw a woman wi' a bonnier face than Claverhouse, and, my certes, mony a lass would give ten years o' her life, aye, and mair, for his brown curls and his glancing een. I'm judgin' there have been sair hearts for him amang the fair Court ladies."
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