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"Dominie, it's sax-and-twenty years since I was made an elder o' the kirk. I mind the day as if it was yestreen. Mr. Carfrae made me walk hame wi' him, and he took me into the manse parlor, and he set me in that very chair. It was the first time I was ever in the manse.
You may read it for yourselves, my dears, in the life of John Paul Jones. "Wae's me!" he said, with a heave of his big chest, "I reca' as yestreen the night Maxwell cam aboord. I tauld the captain 'twas a' the faut o' Maxwell. I ne'er cad bide the blellum. Dour an' din he was, wi' ae girn like th' auld hornie.
"I think," he replied to Butler's request of admission, with true Scottish indirectness, "ye will be the same lad that was for in to see her yestreen?" Butler admitted he was the same person. "And I am thinking," pursued the turnkey, "that ye speered at me when we locked up, and if we locked up earlier on account of Porteous?"
"'No' says she; 'it's yestreen she left with her husband and baby, to join the regiment that's going out to Ingy. "'Yesterday she left? says I, starting up. "'Yes, replies she, 'and what do you care about them? "'It's very much I care, replied I, 'for a little bird has whispered a secret to me. "'And what may that be? says she.
"Ye're a leeing auld sorrow then," replied the fair one; "for Gentle Geordie Robertson put my ilka-day's claise on his ain bonny sell yestreen, and gaed a' through the town wi' them; and gawsie and grand he lookit, like ony queen in the land." "I dinna believe a word o't," said Ratcliffe, with another wink to the procurator.
"They said the truth whaever said it," answered old Edie; "she was buried yestreen by torch-light at St. Ruth's, and I, like a fule, gat a gliff wi' seeing the lights and the riders."
Answer me that, my leddy! 'I do own myself beaten, says she, 'and I retract my words. 'Say nae mair, yer leddyship! says I for I'm no a cruel man 'say nae mair, but maybe ye'll hae the justice for tae say a word tae the same effeck in the Castle whaur ye spak yestreen? 'I promise you I will, said the dowager 'here, take the rod! Weel, it was no sae muckle a fush as was Leddy Carline's.
"I saw your candle late yestreen," said the minister, pausing to look at the young man over the wooden platter of porridge which formed the frugal and sufficient breakfast of the two. Porridge for breakfast and porridge for supper are the cure-alls of the true Galloway man.
That active woman had already been half an hour out of bed, and was drinking her morning cup of tea in the kitchen. She received him with cordiality, nay, with relief. "Eh, sir, but I'm glad to see ye back. Guid kens what's gaun on at the Hoose thae days. Mr. Heritage left here yestreen, creepin' round by dyke-sides and berry-busses like a wheasel.
"I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the old moon in her arm: And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'd come to harm." The voice died away as it travelled down the space of the long room. Presently it came nearer; the verses were still going on "Oh, lang, lang may the ladies sit, With their fans into their hand, Before they see Sir Patrick Spens Come sailing to the strand.
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