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Cosmo stopped his scythe in mid swing, and turned to her. How could he resist such an appeal! "Grizzie," he said, "I winna deny 'at ye hae vext me, " "Ye needna; I wadna believe ye. But ye dinna ken yon man as I du, or ye wadna be sae sair angert at onything wuman cud say til 'im. Gien I was to tell ye what I ken o' 'im, ye wad be affrontit afore me, auld wife as I am.
"Weel, there ye wat wrang, Grizzie, my bonny wuman!" replied the laird, with the flicker of a humourous smile on his wrinkled face, "for I sellt the last bottle oot o' 't a month ago to Stronach o' the distillery. I thought it cudna du muckle ill there, for it wadna make his nose sae reid as his ain whusky.
He strode up to his wife, and stood over her like an angel of vengeance. His very lips were white with wrath. "Efter thirty years o' merried life, noo first to ken the wife o' my boasom for a messenger o' Sawtan!" he panted. "Gang oot o' my sicht, wuman!" She fell on her knees, and held up her two hands to him. "Think o' Jamie, Peter!" she pleaded. "I wad tyne my sowl for Jamie!"
There's a wuman doon the stair 'at he comes to see whiles; an' twa or three nichts ago, I heard them lauchin' thegither. Sae I hearkened. They war baith some fou, I'm thinkin'. I cudna tell ye a' 'at they said. That's a punishment noo, gin ye like to see and hear the warst o' yer ain ill doin's. He tellt the limmer a heap o' his lord's secrets.
"Ilka man, wuman, an' bairn o' them," answered Malcolm. "And what sort are they?" "Siclike as ye micht expec'." "That's not a very luminous answer." "Weel, they're nae waur nor ither fowk, to begin wi'; an' gien this hauds, they'll be better nor mony." "What sort are their leaders?" "Guid, respectable fowk, my lord." "Then there's not much harm in them?"
"Besides, dinna ye see," she added cunningly, "that that would be to affront the lass as weel? He wadna be the first to fa' intil the snare o' a designin wuman, and wad it be for his ain father to expose him to public contemp? Your pairt sud be to cover up his sin gien it were a multitude, and no ae solitary bit faut!" "Daur ye speyk o' a thing like that as a bit faut?
"Gien she tries to come up, I'll hae to caw her doon," he said to himself, "an' I dinna like it, for she 's a wuman efter a', though a deevilich kin' o' a ane; but there's my leddy! I hae broucht her intill 't, an' I maun see her safe oot o' 't!" But if Mrs.
"Blue Peter," he said, looking him in the face, "I took it as a mark o' yer freen'ship 'at ye never spak the word to me. What richt has ony man to ca' that wuman my mither? I hae never allooed it!" "I 'm thinkin'," returned Joseph, the more easily nettled that his horizon also was full of trouble, "your word upo' the maitter winna gang sae far 's John o' Groat's.
"Ay, and tyne his as weel!" he returned. "Tyne what's yer ain to tyne, wuman and that's no your sowl, nor yet Jamie's! He's no yours to save, but ye're deein a' ye can to destroy him and aiblins ye'll succeed! for ye wad sen' him straucht awa to hell for the sake o' a guid name a lee! a hypocrisy! Oot upo ye for a Christian mither, Mirran!
I canna but think it an ungracious thing 'at a young wuman like me, the son's wife, suld put the man's ain mother, his father's wife, oot o' the place whaur his father set her. I'm layin doon no prenciple; I'm sayin only hoo it affecs me. I want to come hame as her dochter, no as mistress o' the hoose in her stead. And ye see, Francie, that'll gie ye anither haud o' her, agen disgracin o' hersel!
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