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"I'm tired and maun gang to my bed, for I hae a sair heid," said Mr Cupples, that first night. "That's my doin'!" said Alec, sorrowfully. But eh me! I'm feared I winna sleep muckle the nicht." "Wad ye like me to sit up wi' ye?" asked Alec. "I cud sleep i' your cheir weel eneuch." "Na, na. We hae baith need to say oor prayers, and we cudna do that weel thegither.
But he's vexed me, and set himself agin me, and stiffened my back, and ye ken hoo I was aye quick to tak' offence. But I'll mak' it up to him mak' it up to him, and mair. I'll humble masel' afore him, and that'll be bitter enough. And I'll be father and mither baith to him. But there's bin none to help me; and it's bin sair wi'oot ye. And . but, eh, lassie, I'm wearyin' for ye!"
"Le Polisson corsair Francois what you load, eh?" "Sugar and coffee, with cochineal, and a few other articles." "Peste! Vere you boun', Monsieur, s'il vous plait." "Hamburg." "Diable! zis is non ze chemin. How you come her, sair, viz ze vin' at sow-vess?" "We are going in to Brest, being in need of a little succour." "You vish salvage, eh! Parbleu, we can do you zat mosh good, as veil as anodair."
"Weel, if ye dinna ken that," said the resolute farmer, "ye ken this; ye ken ye're whiles obliged to be up our water in the way o' your business; now, if ye let me stay quietly here the night wi' the Captain, I'se pay ye double fees for the room; and if ye say no, ye shall hae the best sark-fu' o' sair banes that ever ye had in your life, the first time ye set a foot by Liddel-moat!"
"Yer mither's been sair upo' ye, I doobt!" he said. "But it'll sune blaw ower. She cuils as fest 's she heats." As he spoke he set himself down on the sand beside her. But Lizzy started to her feet, crying, "Dinna come near me, Ma'colm. I'm no fit for honest man to come nigh me. Stan' awa'; I hae the plague."
Lang it was ere he died; he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie. The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. 'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam? said one of the gipsies; 'could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
What for should a learned man rise afore his parritch is made? There maun be something sair wrang," said Saunders Mowdiewort. "Muckle ye ken aboot learned men. I suppose, ye think because ye carry up the Bible, that ye ken a' that's in't," returned Meg, with a sneer of her voice that might have turned milk sour.
I'm weel convinced Gabriel drapped the roughies in the water on purpose; he doesna like to see ony body do a thing better than himsell. 'Ay, said another, 'he's sair shamed o' himsell, else he would have been up here the night; Gabriel likes a little o' the gude thing as weel as ony o' us. 'Is he of this country? said Brown.
"Weel, sir, there micht hae been something like that intil 't! But I wantit sair to win at my bairn again; for i' that trance I lay in sae lang, I saw or h'ard something I took for an intimation that he was alive, and no that far awa. And wad ye believe't, sir? i' this vera hoose I fand him, and here I hae him, and I'm jist as happy the noo as I was meeserable afore!
"And when the MacGregors come down the glen, and ye see toom faulds, a bluidy hearthstone, and the fire flashing out between the rafters o' your house, ye may be thinking then, Ewan, that were your friend Rob to the fore, you would have had that safe which it will make your heart sair to lose." Ewan of Brigglands again shrugged and groaned, but remained silent.
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