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Auld Dougal MacCallum, the butler, that had followed Sir Robert through gude and ill, thick and thin, pool and stream, was specially fond of the pipes, and ay gae my gudesire his gude word wi' the laird; for Dougal could turn his master round his finger. Weel, round came the Revolution, and it had like to have broken the hearts baith of Dougal and his master.
Lindsay was out, the visitor was requested to wait in an adjacent room, where he found a person busily engaged in copying some figures. The Sunderland shipowner paced the room several times and took careful note of the writer's doings, and at length said to him, 'Thou writes a bonny hand, thou dost. "'I am glad you think so, was the reply. "'Ah, thou dost. Thou makes thy figures weel.
"I am come to inform your Majesty that Christopher Demdike has just died of his wounds," said this personage. "And sae he has had a strae death, after a'!" rejoined James. "Weel, we are sorry for it." "His portion will be eternal bale," observed the officer. "How know you that, sir?" demanded the King, sharply. "You are not his judge."
"It took them a gude fower oors tae get across, an' it wes coorse wark; they likit him weel doon that wy, an', Jamie, man" here Drumsheugh's voice changed its note, and his public manner disappeared "what div ye think o' this? every man o' them has on his blacks." "It's mair than cud be expeckit" said Jamie; "but whar dae yon men come frae, Drumsheugh?"
She became all condescension; and, leading him up stairs, opened a door, and showed him into a room where Lady Maitland was sitting. "I houp yer leddyship," began Geordie, with a low bow, "has been quite weel sin' I had the honour o' yer acquaintanceship, whilk is now a year, come twa o'clock o' this day.
"So I went away, thinking on her face as if I had been looking at it in a glass a' the time; and to make a long story short, within three months, Miss Jenny Thompson and me became particularly weel acquaint.
Look at Titus Livius, what he says of those Roman soldiers who were so unhappy as exuere sacramentum, to renounce their legionary oath; but you are ignorant, sir, alike of ancient history and modern courtesy. 'Not so ignorant as ye would pronounce me, roared Balmawhapple. 'I ken weel that you mean the Solemn League and Covenant; but if a' the Whigs in hell had taken the
'But isna yer mistress i' the drawin'-room? I dinna want to see her. 'Ow, weel, said the girl, who was almost fresh from the country, 'jist rin up the stair, an' chap at the door o' her room. With the simplicity of a child, for what a girl told him to do must be right, Robert sped up the stair, his heart going like a fire-engine.
Na, na! when I was in that way I played at giff- gaff with the officers: here a cargo taen vera weel, that was their luck; there another carried clean through, that was mine; na, na! hawks shouldna pike out hawks' een. 'And this Colonel Mannering? said Brown.
"Weel, see that ye dinna set up a stour," Bell answered. Early next forenoon, as Dr. Brunton was driving home after having been out the most of the night, he saw two ladies on horseback approaching, followed by a servant in livery: he liked to look at a pleasant sight, and first his eye caught the horses, and he thought what fine animals they were; then he glanced at the ladies.
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