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"Five years auld exactly, this blessed day," answered the lady; "so we may look into the English gentleman's paper." Mr. Bertram liked to show his authority in trifles. "No, my dear, not till to-morrow. The last time I was at quarter-sessions, the sheriff told us, that dies that dies inceptus in short, you don't understand Latin, but it means that a term-day is not begun till it's ended."
And so when it drew nigh the term-day that Sir Gawaine, Sir Marhaus, and Sir Uwaine should meet at the cross-way, then every knight drew him thither to hold his promise that they had made; and Sir Marhaus and Sir Uwaine brought their damosels with them, but Sir Gawaine had lost his damosel, as it is afore rehearsed.
She felt the cold, too, in spite of her fat, and as the proverb says: It's easier for two to keep warm than one; but whatever was her reason for doing it, Long Ole might thank his Maker for her. There was always bacon hanging in her chimney. Lasse and Pelle looked forward to term-day with anxiety. What changes would it bring this time for people? So much depended on that.
Bertram's edification, and matters proceeded against the gipsies in form of law. Every door in the hamlet was chalked by the ground-officer, in token of a formal warning to remove at next term. Still, however, they showed no symptoms either of submission or of compliance. At length the term-day, the fatal Martinmas, arrived, and violent measures of ejection were resorted to.
"And if he tell'd you truth, it was a virtue he did not aye use to practise," said Christie. "The devil!" said I, considerably nettled; "all the world held him to be a man of honour." "Ay, ay! he would hae shot onybody wi' his pistols and his guns that had evened him to be a liar. But if he promised to pay an honest tradesman the next term-day, did he keep his word then?
During the summer, several changes had been made among the regular servants at the farm, but now, at term-day, none were changed; it was not the habit of Stone Farm to change servants at the regular term-times. So Pelle again helped his father with the foddering indoors.
'Tis now about term-day, and there has been a revolution among those creatures who, though in appearance partakers, and equally noble partakers, of the same nature with Madame, are from time to time their nerves, their sinews, their health, strength, wisdom, experience, genius, time, nay, a good part of their very thoughts sold for months and years, not only to the necessities, the conveniences, but the caprices of the important few.
"There are a number of bills to meet and we'll have no money coming in until term-day." "Can't you put off the bills?" "I think not," Hayes answered, meaningly. "It mightn't be prudent. Our credit is not too good." Osborn was silent for a moment or two. "Very well," he said. "I'll try to sell the sheep to somebody who'll give me what they're really worth.
Their natural disposition is turned to gaiety and happiness; while a Scotchman is thinking about the term-day, or, if easy on that subject, about hell in the next world while an Englishman is making a little hell of his own in the present, because his muffin is not well roasted Pat's mind is always turned to fun and ridicule.
On the very term-day when their ejection should have taken place, when all their neighbours were prepared to pity, and not one to assist them, the minister of the parish, as well as a doctor from Edinburgh, received a hasty summons to attend the Laird of Dumbiedikes.
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