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When Annie saw that, she crept across to his form, and sat down on the end of it. Alec looked up at her, smiled, and went on with his whittling. Annie slid a little nearer to him, and asked him to hear her say her catechism. He consented, and she repeated the lesson perfectly. "Now let me hear you, Alec," she said. "Na, thank ye, Annie. I canna say't.
"Weel, man!" said the laird, with a laugh that had in it just a touch of scorn, "gien the thing be sae plain, what gars ye gang that gait aboot the buss to say't? Du ye tak me and Cosmo here for bairns 'at wad fa' a greetin' gien ye tellt them their ba-lamb wasna a leevin' ane-naething but a fussock o' cotton-'oo', rowed roon' a bit stick? We're naither o' 's complimentit. Come, Cosmo.
Are ye quite sure that ye haena allowed the days o' grace in Templeton's bill to expire? There's indorsers there; and if it is as I suspect, ye've lost recourse, and may be liable for the debt." "Mercy on us!" cried the terrified Andrew. "It's impossible. Dinna say't. Let me count." "Count, deacon count, man." "I think we had better see the bill itsel," cried the deacon. "Where's the key?"
It's true the auld men are awa', but here's the auld wife left, an' she'll be a mither to ye, as weel's she kens hoo, an' a lass o' your sense is easy to mither. I' the name o' God I say't, the warl' micht as weel objec' to twa angels bidin' i' h'aven thegither as you an' the yoong laird in ae hoose! Say 'at they like, ye're but a servan' lass, an' here am I ower ye!
Ain't that terrible? How CAN they stand it?" "I notice there are things in this world that have to be stood. An' when they have to be stood, they might as well be stood, an' done with it." "Yes, I suppose so," sighed Mrs. McGuire. Then, after a pause: "But what is it that's makin' him blind?" "I don't know. They ain't sayin'. I thought maybe't was a catamount, but they say't ain't that."
Gang on, please, and say what ye think fit: it's a' true!" "There's little left for me to say, lassie, noo ye hae begun to say't to yersel. But, believe me, though ye can never be the bairn's ain mither, she can never be til 'im the same ye hae been a'ready, whatever mair or better may follow. The pairt ye hae chosen is guid eneuch never to be taen frae ye i' this warl or the neist!"
Come in and bear a hand, an I'll give you diet and lodging, and a few pence when you earn them. 'Never say't twice, says the prince. 'I want nothing but to be busy. So he took the hammer, and pounded away at the red-hot bar that the smith was turning on the anvil to make into a set of horse-shoes. They hadn't been long at work when a tailor came in, and he sat down and began to talk.
"I'll be hanged if I will!" retorted Chip. "If Weary's taken to lying about me I'll have it out with him if I break all the rest of my bones doing it. Do you think I'm going to stand a thing like that? I'll see " "Easy there, doggone it. I never heard Weary say't yuh got bucked off. Whizzer turned over on his head, 's near as I c'd make out fer dust. I took it he turned a summerset."
'No gien it was 'at naething wud ever gar him merry ye? 'That he micht weel say, for he winna need garrin! But he never said it, and ye needna try to threpe it upo' me! she added, in a tone that showed the very idea too painful. 'He did say't, Phemy. 'Wha tellt ye? It's lees! Somebody's leein! 'He said it til me himsel. Never a lee has onybody had a chance o' puttin intil the tale!
They are clean anither set frae the like o' huz; there's nae bailie-courts amang them nae magistrates that dinna bear the sword in vain, like the worthy deacon that's awa', and, I may say't, like mysell and other present magistrates in this city But it's just the laird's command, and the loon maun loup; and the never another law hae they but the length o' their dirks the broadsword's pursuer, or plaintiff, as you Englishers ca' it, and the target is defender; the stoutest head bears langest out; and there's a Hieland plea for ye."
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