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"Beyond me and every ither in the land but ane, and it wud cost a hundred guineas tae bring him tae Drumtochty." "Certes, he's no blate; it's a fell chairge for a short day's work; but hundred or no hundred we 'ill hae him, an' no let Annie gang, and her no half her years." "Are ye meanin' it, Drumsheugh?" and MacLure turned white below the tan.
"Ye can du as yer lordship likes," answered Miss Horn; "but I wadna hae 't said o' me 'at I had ony dealin's wi' her. Wha kens but she micht say ye tried to bribe her? There 's naething she wad bogle at gien she thoucht it worth her while. No 'at I 'm feart at her. Lat her lee! I 'm no sae blate but ! Only dinna lippen till a word she says, my lord." The marquis meditated.
'I will go with you instead of him, said I, in a sudden whim; 'and I will give you a crown to introduce me as your comrade. 'YOU gang instead of Rob the Rambler! My certie, freend, ye are no blate! answered Wandering Willie, in a tone which announced death to my frolic. But Maggie, whom the offer of the crown had not escaped, began to open on that scent with a maundering sort of lecture.
'Ay, that we will washed spotless, and pure, and clean, and dressed i' the weddin' garment, and set doon at the table wi' him and wi' his Father. That's them 'at believes in him, ye ken. 'Of coorse, grannie. 'What's i' the bairn's heid noo? Troth, ye're no blate, meddlin' wi' sic subjecks, laddie! 'I didna want to say onything to vex ye, grannie. I s' gang on wi' the chapter.
"And did he cast up to my bairn that he was a bastard? troth he was na blate my certie, your father was a better man than ever stood on the Doctor's shanks a handsome grand gentleman, with an ee like a gled's, and a step like a Highland piper."
"An' Ty ain't afeard o' bars," she silently commented, "nor wolves, nor wind, nor lightning, nor man in enny kind o' a free fight; but bekase he dun'no' how the law stands, an' air afeard the law mought be able ter take Lee-yander, he jes sets thar ez pitiful ez a lost kid, fairly ready ter blate aloud."
Aye, aye, its a' awa' an' its mony the year I thocht on it, let alane thocht on wantin' back thae days o' vanity an' the pride o' sinfu' youth!" "Tell me about the officer men, granny," said Winsome. "'Deed wull I no. "But, grandmammy dear, I thought that you said that the officer men ran away from you " "Hear till her! Rin frae me? Certes, ye're no blate.
"Blate!" he repeated, "I would not have thought that was my failing. Am I not cracking away to you like an old wife?" "Just to hide the blateness of you," she answered. "You may go to great depths with hills and heughs and mists and possibly with women too when you get the chance, but, my dear Gilian, you're terribly shallow to any woman with an eye in her head."
His hand grasped possessingly the lady's arm. "Faith, and you are not blate," said she whimsically, but indifferent to remove herself from a grasp so innocent. She listened. The far bounds of the lawn were lost in gloom, in its midst stood up vague in the dusk a great druidic stone.
But in nae event cry on me, for I am wearied wi' doudling the bag o' wind a' day, and I am gaun to eat my dinner quietly in the spence. And if ye ken ony puir body o' our acquaintance that's blate for want o' siller, and has far to gang hame, ye needna stick to gie them a waught o' drink and a bannock we'll ne'er miss't, and it looks creditable in a house like ours.
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