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"Ah!" cried I, "what of him?" "What of the wind that bloweth where it listeth?" said Henderland. "He's here and awa'; here to-day and gone to-morrow: a fair heather-cat. He might be glowering at the two of us out of yon whin-bush, and I wouldna wonder! Ye'll no' carry such a thing as snuff, will ye?" I told him no, and that he had asked the same thing more than once.
Maister Fothergill West and the meenister say that I maun tell all I can aboot General Heatherstone and his hoose, but that I maunna say muckle aboot mysel' because the readers wouldna care to hear aboot me or my affairs.
Firstly, because I havena got the courage and wouldna daur; and secondly, because I am a man of so much penetration and would see ye damned first." "It's there ye're coming, is it?" I cried. "Ah, man Alan, you can wile your old wives, but you never can wile me." Remembrance of my temptation in the wood made me strong as iron. "I have a tryst to keep," I continued.
"Well, David," said he, "since he couldna be rid of the loyal commons by fair means, he swore he would be rid of them by foul. Ardshiel was to starve: that was the thing he aimed at. And since them that fed him in his exile wouldna be bought out right or wrong, he would drive them out. Therefore he sent for lawyers, and papers, and red-coats to stand at his back.
Pomfret was willing to teach you. For if anything was t' happen, it's well to know how to turn your hand to different sorts o' things. But I niver meant you to go to service, my wench; my family's ate their own bread and cheese as fur back as anybody knows, hanna they, Father? You wouldna like your grand-child to take wage?"
"Aweel, ye wouldna ye was looking the wrong way, man," he said. "I sort o' missed my swing that time. There's the ba' " He pointed, and sure enough, I saw the puir wee ba', over to right, not half a dozen yards from the tee, and lookin' as if it had been cut in twa. He made to lift it and put it back on the tee, but, e'en an' I had never played the game I knew a bit aboot the rules.
They're juist inseparable." The time came when we had Mr. and Mrs. Geogehan and Eppie to tea. "It's true enough," Leeby ran ben to tell Jess, "'at Eppie an' the wife's fond o' ane another. I wouldna hae believed it o' Eppie if I hadna seen it, but I assure ye they sat even at the tea-table haudin' ane another's hands. I waurant they're doin't this meenute."
"'Cause she was set on haudin her tongue. Was she to bring an owre true tale o' me to the vera hoose I was born in? As lang as I haud til my tongue, she'll never wag hers! Eh, but she's a true ane! She's ane to lippen til!" "Weel, I alloo, she's deen as a wuman sud the faut bein a' her ain!" "The faut bein' a' mine, mother, she wouldna tell what would disgrace me!"
Tammas Whamond is no langer an elder o' the kirk; ay, and I was chief elder. "Dominie, I think she began to say that when the minister came hame he wouldna accept my resignation, but I paid no heed to her. You ken what was the sound that keeped my ears frae her words; it was the sound o' a machine coming yont the Tenements.
The homely face reddened more deeply, and the lad's eyes dull, soft, almost womanish eyes raised themselves to the speaker's. "Do yo' knew anybody as would be loikely to tak' me in a bit" he said, "until I ha' toime to earn th' wage to pay? I wouldna wrong no mon a penny as had trusted me." There was manifest hesitation, and then some one spoke: "Lancashire Jack might."
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