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"No," replied Mother Darkmans, "I seed him go out an hour agone, when the sun was just on the rise; and I said, when I seed him stroam into the wood yonder, and the ould leaves splashed in the damp under his feet, and his hat was aboon his brows, and his lips went so, I said, says I, 't is not the man that will make a hearth bright that would walk thus on his marriage day.
Your mither, rest her saul, could pit up wi' as muckle as maist women but aff hands is fair play; and if ony body be uncivil ye may gie me a cry Aweel, when the malt begins to get aboon the meal, they'll begin to speak about government in kirk and state, and then, Jenny, they are like to quarrel let them be doing anger's a drouthy passion, and the mair they dispute, the mair ale they'll drink; but ye were best serve them wi' a pint o' the sma' browst, it will heat them less, and they'll never ken the difference."
But, oh, when ye go wi' the letter to his mother, my honoured lady, will ye just go away down to a bit white house which lies by the river side, about a mile and a half aboon Selkirk, and there ye will find my poor wife and bairns or rather, I should say, my unhappy widow and my orphans and tell them oh, tell my wife that I never kenned how dear she was to me till now; but that, if she marries again, my ghost will haunt her night and day; and tell also the bairns that, above everything, I charge them to be good to their mother."
Everything round about us, aboon us, and among our feet, seemed to ken it was Sunday everything but James and me. It was the happiest afternoon I ever spent. James grat, and I grat. I got a scolding frae my faither and my mother when I gaed hame, and they demanded to ken where I had been; but the words that James had spoken to me bore me up against their reproaches.
Naebody has ca'd me by that name sin' my mither pairted wi' me at the stage coach road, and she was fair chokit wi' cryin', and when I cudna see her mair for the bush aboon the burn, I could aye hear her bleatin' like a lamb an' it was the gloamin'. An' I can fair hear her yet. Will ye no' ca' me Angus?"
Something sad has befallen that makes her seek her seat in this eerie nook amid the darkness and tempest; through might from aboon I will go on and see. And the horse, feeling something of the owner's reviving spirit in the application of spur-steel, bore him at once to the foot of the tree.
When they had all done but one, who was left reared against the wooden partition finishing his soup, the last of those going away turned round and said, "Sam, theaw'rt noan as tickle abeawt thi mate as thae use't to be." "Naw," replied the other, "it'll not do to be nice these times, owd mon. But, thae use't to think thisel' aboon porritch, too, Jone.
My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock." He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could, down the steps. The steps are a great feature on the place.
And the mother turned her tearful eyes towards the settle whereon lay the corpse. 'Well, cornd yo' see as God hes finished aar wark for us, and what we made lads, He's made angels on? 'But aw'd sooner ha' kept mine. Angels are up aboon, thaa knows; an' heaven's a long way off. 'Happen noan so far as thaa thinks, lass; and then th' Almeety will do better by 'em nor we con.
"Come awa wi' you, then," said Cuddie; "but mind, deil a finger ye maun lay on Lady Margaret, or Miss Edith, or the auld Major, or, aboon a', on Jenny Dennison, or ony body but the sodgers cut and quarter amang them as ye like, I carena." "Ay, ay," said the other, "let us once in, and we will make our ain terms with them a'."
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