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Smith, I dare say?" "No, indeed, mem," says I "I do not." "I'm a cousin o' yours," said she "Margaret Smith, and a dochter o' your uncle William's." "Frae Edinburgh," said I, takin her cordially by the haun, and leadin her into the parlour. "The same," said she smilin again; "and I'm just come doun to spend a day or twa wi' ye, if ye hae room for me, and winna think me owre troublesome."
"Naething mair easy," Andrew observed; "he had but to hint to his cousin that I wanted a pair or twa o' hose, and he wad be wi' me as fast as he could lay leg to the grund." "O yes, assure him I shall be a customer; and as the night is, as you say, settled and fair, I shall walk in the garden until he comes; the moon will soon rise over the fells.
I wasna at first a'thegither in such a laughin humour as my visitor, yet I couldna help joinin him in the lang run, whan we took twa or three guid roun's o't, an' then proceeded to business. Mr.
And, in truth, whether he was to tak' the siller or not, it was no that had moved him. It was a sair, dour nicht for Jamie and the wife. They lay awake, the twa of them. They listened to the breathing of the wean; whiles and again he'd rouse and greet a wee, and every sound he made tore at their heart strings.
"Na, na," said Janet, with an expression of self-approbation, "I dinna approve o' women reading the Word aloud. It is nae house without a man at the head o' it, and we canna hae exercises without a man to gie us the sense o' them. We are twa lane women, we maun be contented with the whisper o' a verse or twa to our ain hearts." And Maggie was almost glad.
So they "made a paction 'twixt them twa" the poor little helpless, crippled boy, and the bright, active, energetic girl the earl's son and minister's daughter one of those pactions which grow out of an inner similitude which counteracts all outward dissimilarity; and they never broke it while they lived. "Has my lamb enjoyed himself?" inquired Mrs.
This was easily ascertained; for Caleb had been in the village one morning by five o'clock, to borrow "twa chappins of ale and a kipper" for the messenger's refreshment, and the poor fellow had been ill for twenty-four hours at Luckie Sma'trash's, in consequence of dining upon "saut saumon and sour drink."
Oh, ye ken, Jean, an Ennglishman and a lorrd, twa daft things thegither, he could na' miss the road. Coont them, lassie." "Come away, Sandy, till I count them till ye," said Jean. Saunders and Jean disappeared. Business being out of sight, curiosity revived. "An' what brings ye here from London, if ye please?" recommenced the fair inquisitor.
"Dick Ostler," said Mrs. "Eye, eye, God help me, mistress," said Dick, shrugging his shoulders betwixt a repentant and a knowing expression "Eye! I ha' know'd a thing or twa i' ma day, mistress." He looked sharp and laughed looked grave and sighed, as one who was prepared to take the matter either way. "Kenst thou this wee bit paper amang the rest, man?" said Mrs.
"The more mischief the better sport," said the crabbed old watchmaker. "I am blithe, though, that it's neither of the twa loons themselves. What are ye bringing a corpse here for, ye fause villains?" he added, addressing the two apprentices, who, at the head of a considerable mob of their own class, some of whom bore evident marks of a recent fray, were carrying the body betwixt them.
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