ahint-hand

Updated: May 24, 2025

"H'm," says he; "ye come a wee thing ahint-hand, Mr. Balfour. The bird's flaen we hae letten her out." "Miss Drummond is set free?" I cried. "Achy!" said he. "What would we keep her for, ye ken? To hae made a steer about the bairn would has pleased naebody." "And where'll she be now?" says I. "Gude kens!" says Doig, with a shrug.

Robert Louis Stevenson - Catriona

"H'm," says he, "ye come a wee thing ahint-hand, Mr. Balfour. The bird's flaen, we hae letten her out." "Miss Drummond is set free?" I cried. "Achy!" said he. "What would we keep her for, ye ken? To hae made a steer about the bairn would hae pleased naebody." "And where'll she be now?" says I. "Gude kens!" says Doig, with a shrug. "She'll have gone home to Lady Allardyce, I'm thinking," said I.

Robert Louis Stevenson - David Balfour, Second Part : Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona

"H'm," says he; "ye come a wee thing ahint-hand, Mr. Balfour. The bird's flown we hae letten her out." "Miss Drummond is set free?" I cried. "Achy!" said he. "What would we keep her for, ye ken? To hae made a steer about the bairn would hae pleased naebody." "And where'll she be now?" says I. "Gude kens!" says Doig, with a shrug. "She'll have gone home to Lady Allardyce, I'm thinking," said I.

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11