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This paper is folded as though about a pound of tea and sealed with wax. Then a label is pasted on it, showing in plain characters what is within. The packages are of uniform size and any variation from the standard would be noticed. But a dishonest man in Brown's position could slip a wad of prepared paper into one of the packages and put the notes into his pocket.
I'm nane the less obleeged to ye, Jeames," he added as he rose, "though I cud weel wuss yer opingon had been sic as wad hae pitten't 'i my pooer to offer ye a fee for't." "The less said aboot that the better, laird." replied Jeames with imperturbability, and his large, silent smile; "the trowth's the trowth, whether it's paid for or no.
Crathie, blurting out her Scotch fast enough now, "I s' warran' ye can lee weel eneuch whan ye hae occasion. Tak yer siller an' du as I tell ye." "Wad ye hae me damned, mem?" Mrs. Crathie gave a cry and held up her hands.
It's full waur nor bein' possessed wi' deevils, an' maun be a hantle mair ooncoamfortable. But I wad hae yon door opent, my lord." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the marquis once more, and shrugged his shoulders. "You must leave that room. If I hear anything more about noises, or that sort of rubbish, I shall insist upon it.
"Kinswoman," said the Bailie, "nae man willingly wad cut short his thread of life before the end o' his pirn was fairly measured off on the yarn-winles And I hae muckle to do, an I be spared, in this warld public and private business, as weel that belonging to the magistracy as to my ain particular; and nae doubt I hae some to depend on me, as puir Mattie, wha is an orphan She's a far-awa' cousin o' the Laird o' Limmerfield.
"For my own satisfaction solely," replied the Antiquary. "Put up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen then, for I downa speak out an ye hae writing materials in your hands they're a scaur to unlearned folk like me Od, ane o' the clerks in the neist room will clink down, in black and white, as muckle as wad hang a man, before ane kens what he's saying."
So universal is this lack of self-under standing that the poet expressed a real human longing when he said: "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion: What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us And even devotion!"
"Did I hurt your feelings yesterday by telling you my story?" she asked suddenly. "Mine? No! You are the injured one in the life you have unfortunately led." She looked at him with a sardonic smile, plucking a pink wad from the lid of a box of sweetmeats beside her. In her looks and smiles, Frederick felt her cold, wicked enjoyment.
'Ay, and the young Laird of Hazlewood rides hame half the road wi' her after sermon, said one of the gossips in company. 'I wonder how auld Hazlewood likes that. 'I kenna how he may like it now, answered another of the tea-drinkers; 'but the day has been when Ellangowan wad hae liked as little to see his daughter taking up with their son.
As he said it he pressed his lips together with that fearfully stern expression which, with his short stature, had earned him the nickname in the army of "Little Louis XI.," and an officer behind me who wad heard my question and the answer, added in an undertone, "And he had taken all his precautions." "What do you mean?"
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